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School: Waterville (C.) (roll number 16015)

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An Coireán, Co. Chiarraí
Teacher:
Helen O' Sullivan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0475, Page 158

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    and in half an hour there were eighty-one. In an hour over a thousand houses were warned and within two hours almost a million houses had "straws" left at them, and the message was still spreading. In a single day all Ireland was warned. The Nation was as busy as a hive of bees on the day of the Straws.
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