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   “The food long ago was different to what we have now.”

   

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   They made oaten bread very commonly. It was very sweet and wholesome, eaten with good butter. The people long ago had very good teeth because they ate the oaten bread.

   

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   “Long ago in olden times the people used to eat potatoes and oaten bread and buttermilk.”

   

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   Long ago in olden times the people used to eat potatoes and oaten bread and buttermilk. And they had every one of their teeth as good as new when they died, because they never ate any other bread only oaten bread. When the people would be eating their dinner they would all gather round the basket on the middle of the floor and eat their fill of cabbages and potatoes and bacon. Long ago there was nearly no tea to be got in this part of the country, and it was very few people that could get tea at all. So we do not know who drank tea in this part of the country first. The old people would not have to buy anything. When they would want candles they would make them themselves. So it is

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Andrew Tully

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Lislin, Co. Cavan

   Informant

   Mr Tully

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   54

   Address

   Lislin, Co. Cavan