School: Eaglais
- Location:
- Boirinn, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: S. Ó Mongaigh
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- XML “The Famine”
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- Collector
- Pat Malley
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John Malley
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Boirinn, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- The famine years in this country were very bad. There were bad crops, and food was scarce. There was a sort of black meat going that time. If you ate much of it, it would make you drunk. There were three children in one house. When the black meat was brought to the house, they used to take some of it outsid. Then they used to mix it with water and stir it with a stick. Then they ate it. When the children had eaten they got drunk.