The Irish Immigrants

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The IrishImmigrants
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Cabins in Ireland
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A Scalpeen

• Our second Sketch represents what is called a
  Scalpeen. A Scalpeen is a hole. . . It is often
  erected within the walls when any are left
  standing, of the unroofed houses, and all that is
  above the surface is built out of the old
  materials.
• Illustrated London News, December 15, 1849.

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Praties They Grow Small
(The Famine Song) Oh the praties they grow small,
over here (2x) Oh the praties they grow small And
way up in Donegal We eat them skins and all, over
here, over here We eat them skins and all, over
here.
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The Gruel Cauldron
When the people began to die of hunger, a big
cauldron was set up in Rannafast to make broth or
gruel to keep people alive. No-one know where it
came from or who had sent it. Bones were boiled
to make the broth and there's no record of where
those bones came from.
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Anyone who had anything at all to eat or any way
of getting it would get no broth at all. But
there weren't many here who could do that.
Everyone got one serving of broth per day. Crowds
would be milling around as they gave out the
broth and they'd be pushing and shoving, nearly
killing one another to get up to the cauldron.
Everyone was trying to get in before others, so
great was the hunger.
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Famine Soup Recipe
4 oz. leg beef 2 oz. drippings
(fat) 8 oz. flour 1/2 oz.
brown sugar 2 gallons water onions
turnip parings celery tops little
salt
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A Scalp

• "There is something called a scalp, or hole dug
  in the earth, some two or three feet deep. In
  such a place was the abode of Brian Connor. He
  has three in family, and had lived in this hole
  several months before it was discovered. It was
  roofed over with sticks and pieces of turf, laid
  in the shape of an inverted saucer. It resembles,
  though not quite so large, one of the ant-hills
  of the African forests."
• Illustrated London News, December 22,
  1849.

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Arriving in a New World
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Sources Used

• Recipes, songs and stories from
• http//www.goecities.com/willboyne/nosurrender.Pot
  atCom.html
• Line drawings from
• http//vassun.vassar.edu/sttaylor/FAMINE/Master
• Film clips from
• http//memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query