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School: Tashinny, Colehill (roll number 10223)

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Taghshinny, Co. Longford
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Annie Trimble
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0750, Page 048A

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  1. Food in the Olden Times

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    People used to eat three times a day. Breakfast dinner and supper. People had to get up in the morning and work before the Breakfast they did eat poreidge and butter milk for their Breakfast, and potatoes for the dinner and for the supper. Potatoes were eaten nearly at all meals. Milk was drunk Butter milk mostly. People did not sit at the table but around the potatoe basket. The table was placed near the wall. The table was never hung up against the wall.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mollie Mills
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    14
    Address
    Cartron, Co. Longford