School: Virginia (C )
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mrs B. Farrelly
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- (continued from previous page)a hot turnip and put it in under his hat to bring it home to feed his children.
After a while the smoke started coming up through Tommy's hat and another man who was working there kept telling Tommy that his hat was on fire. That is the way the people had to live during the famine.
The people were walking around and they did not know each other with the hunger. The people buried the dead in the bogs, a big pit was made and the dead body's was thrown into it and covered up. The potatoes were the chief food at this time.
When the people started digging the potatoes they were black and afterwards when they(continues on next page)
