Scoil: Baile Mhic Dáibhid (Ballydevitte) (uimhir rolla 3854)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Famine Times (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   large “stroup,” about six feet long, on it. The porridge, which was very light, and was called “gruel,” was boiled in this and each person received an equal share.

   The meal which the government distributed to relieve the people was called “Relief meal.” A story is told of a Catholic man, whose children were starving and who went to a Protestant minister, one of the distributors, to ask him for some relief meal to feed his hungry family. The minister met him at the door and asked him his business. He explained that his children were starving and asked the minister for some meal. “Well” said the minister “they can eat one another.” Some time after this the minister became insane and died trying to take bites out of of [sic] his own skin.

   People died in great numbers great sickness having followed the famine. There were some other smaller famines due to the failure of the potato-crop but these affected only a few districts. On one occasion a man had a number of men employed building and there were not enough potatoes in the house to give them their dinner

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Topaicí

   1. am
      1. tréimhsí staire sonracha (~25)
         1. an gorta mór (~4,013)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Patrick J. Muldoon

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   12

   Seoladh

   Doonan, Co. Dhún na nGall

   Faisnéiseoir

   Seosaibh O' Maoldúin

   Gaol

   Ní fios

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   50

   Gairm bheatha

   Saor adhmaid (Léirítear teidil na ngairmeacha i mBailiúchán na Scol sa bhunteanga inar cláraíodh iad)

   Seoladh

   Doonan, Co. Dhún na nGall