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1. Tales of the Irish Famine

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   Famine means the scarcity of food or water. Famine is generally caused by two things which are, too much rain or too little rain. In foreign countries famine is caused by scarcity of water, but in Ireland the famine was caused by too much rain.
   The famine which began in the year 1847 known as Black Forty Seven. The year 1849 was the worst as it was said to rain every day for two years. The rain destroyed all the crops, but it destroyed the potato crop most. In those days people put in the potato crop very late, and in the 16th of August when the people got up the blight was seen on the potato crop for the first time.
   The country was then very thickly populated, there was eight millions of people in Ireland then, twice as large as at the present day.
   The people during the famine lived on potatoes, buttermilk, and oatmeal. The oatmeal was then made at home

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

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Olive Ebbitt

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   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Drumerkillew, Co. an Chabháin

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   Willie Parr

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   Fireann

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   Cordoagh Glebe Upper, Co. an Chabháin