School: Knockjames

Location:
Knockjames, Co. Clare
Teacher:
(name not given)
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0590C, Page 03_018

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0590C, Page 03_018

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Knockjames
  2. XML Page 03_018
  3. XML “The Famine”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. The Famine
    30th November 1937
    The time of the famine some people died with the hunger as they had nothing to feed them. They used to eat bread made of potatoes with honey. They used to go down to Affick picking the roots of the turnips and also the leaves. They used to sell the milk in Tulla in order to buy meal
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bridie Halpin
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mr Patrick Halpin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Knockjames, Co. Clare