Scoil: Ceathrú na Laithighe (Brownsgrove) (uimhir rolla 12138)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. The Famine in Our District (ar lean)

   

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   Mháirtín herself was forced to take the road before her and beg food from the people because she was evicted by her landlord for not paying her rent. Bid Mháirtín was only a nick-name and her real name is not known.
   The people would never survive the famine were it not for the assistance they got from O'Kelly who had houses in Knockavanney and Gallagh doing work for which there was no need; just to help the people. He employed scores of them on those farms and paid them a few pence a day for the work they and this helped them out a good deal. He also gave them money. he was landlord of all this place except for a small piece of land over which a man named Herd was landlord.
   He also had all his oats milled into oat-meal and distributed among the people some of whom made stirabout out of it and others mixed it through milk and drank it. This drink was called by some súidín or swedeen and by others prásán. When the potatoes failed the chief food the people of this place had was oat-meal milled from oats. Some had corn themselves and those who had not got some from O'Kelly of
   Knockavanney and from their neighbours. The people also got money from the Archbishop of Tuam and the priests.
   A man named Herd who lived near our place and who was the landlord of some of the people in Marley turned

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      1. tréimhsí staire sonracha (~25)
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   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Mary Mc Gagh

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Seoladh

   An Bheitheach (Browne), Co. na Gaillimhe

   Faisnéiseoir

   Patrick Mc Gagh

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   Fireann

   Aois

   50

   Seoladh

   An Bheitheach (Browne), Co. na Gaillimhe