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Introduction |
| Voices
from the Camps |
| Dinner
at the Hurling Club of Buenos Aires, 25 May 1987,
by
Bill Meek (1987) |
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–My
grandfather came with a potato in his pocket.
A potato in his pocket, right? That was all
he had. That’s all he had. |
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And
he planted that potato and we made a big farm
then, after that. We had ... eh ... What do
you call those? Sheep, and everything. Just
became a big farm. |
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–And
thanks to that potato that his grandfather
had in his pocket... he's here today. –I’m
here today. –Without that potato... |
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–That
was a potato I brought from ... eh ... from
Ireland ... my grandfather brought from Ireland
in the famous time we were [in] the Famine.
What was it? |
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–Yes,
Black ’47. –That’s it. That’s all he had,
he had a potato in his pocket. And we are
from that [now on] came on. |
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–The
potato must have been a Golden Wonder... –A
wonder! A beautiful wonder. |
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