School: Mercy Convent, Granard (roll number 13846)
- Location:
- Granard, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Sr. Conception
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along the roads and on the by-paths with pieces of grass in their mouths, which they were eating to try to keep themselves alive.
After a year the Government seeing that their "Relief Works" were useless adopted O'Connell's plan, which was to give food to the starving people. This plan did not cost as much as the "Relief Works" and it did for more good for the relief of the people. This Relief Work reached my district as some of the rads in my townland were opened up at that time.
The chief food the people had instead of the potato was Indian corn from which they made porridge. They disliked it at first, but as time went on it came to be regarded as good cheap food by the Irish. The famine caused a great panic, and the people in their despair emigrated to America, Australia and New Zealand.
- Collector
- Kathleen Dawson
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 16
- Address
- Carrickduff, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Mr Patrick Dawson
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 48
- Address
- Carrickduff, Co. Longford
