School: Lisdoonan
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- Lisdoonan, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: S. Mac an Éanaigh
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - This food was made from a little oatmeal boiled on water and mixed with plenty of vegetables and it was really vegetable soup in the matter of food but long ago the people would call it braion. Oatmeal bread was the only bread used long ago. One advantage that the people had in food was that they would always have a whole side of bacon in the house which they would get for fourpence per lb.
After some time tea came into vogue but would not be used often as the people thought it was too dear to buy.
The rule long ago was that there were three meals a day and there were some who could not afford to get that much and any person who got that much was considered very lucky. Those meals were breakfast, dinner and supper. The people used to do a good deal of work in the(continues on next page)
