Survived the Famine in memory bima of my mother

When my paternal ancestors I discussed here last October, I promised that I would mention the other side of the championship sometime in the new year. The prophecy has fulfilled earlier than I had planned.
It is on a small farm in the townland of Woodside Welsh parish bima in the barony of Dunmore Tuam in County Galway was born my mother. Did my grandfather, Edward Connolly, and my grandmother, Jane visible, with the same neighborhood. Indeed, until the mid-19th century the village was known as the 'Home of bhFlathartach' located on site. Abandoned the home in question as the emigration bima grew in the years after the Famine and the beginning of the last century there was only one house left to the family was living there - the house was from my mother. But some of the other houses used as outhouses or barns; However I saw some of them when I was in my child and my mother bima told me that the ruins of other houses are still visible when she was young but that they were running as stones were needed to repair fences. bima
Survived the Famine in memory bima of my mother's family. Thomas Connolly, my maternal grandfather, was born as early as the year 1837 and it has grown a lot during bima the famine (1847-49) recalled he'd be one of the more disastrous periods in the history of Ireland . My mother heard stories about the benefactors home went hungry from falling into the house seeking food was not available, and the unknown dead found in ndíoga on roadsides. She heard the same stories when I started learning about the Famine in school. Often people claim to tradition was not half as severe famine in their own areas and in other mbólaí. bima This is the account I heard from my mother: the truáin died of hunger around the Little Wood, is from County Mayo north they came, if true. But gives a map published bima in Atlas of the Great Irish Famine (see below) suggests that the situation was bad enough in the parish of Tuam as well as the parish population fell between 30 and 35 percent over ten years - although it must be acknowledged that the drop was more than 45 percent in other parishes. Unless the famine started bima the migration in the Tuam area certainly did accelerate it, and left looking at a considerable migration of my mother's family.
Gaelic names of my ancestors that I gave above. I did this because native language of all. Intermittent achréidh Gaeltacht bima Galway was the beginning of the last century: that is to say, between Irish and English were the people who were middle or older, but only English was the young folk. Eamonn Connolly or 'Edward Connolly' - my grandfather - he was 30 years old when it counted for the 1911 Census and the languages he speaks fluent; but a son and daughter sister sister to stop in the house on census night was not Irish. Sixteen years old was Michael Fahy, the eldest of two children, which suggests that around the year 1890 the change occurred in the household bima language. The language survived longer in my grandmother's family, apparently, bima as the two languages Katie Shaughnessy, niece she was seven years old in 1911. My mother bima said I was accustomed to speak to parents among themselves but that only English labhraídís with the family - that was the language to represent them wherever they go in the world.
'Hitler' be called a my grandfather bima in the 1930s. Not that he revered contemporary German Chancellor, was that he was planning a "living space" to recover his family holdings neighbors, but thought that the similarities between a chroiméal and croiméilín bima the Führer. He died in 1947, well before I was born, but the pictures I've bima seen in line with the definition of a nickname. However, I know that he particularly interested in politics and run it I may have been involved in the strange nickname the trend to his public speaking. Not the right wing lie was, however, but with Family Land party was founded in 1938 to benefit small farmers in the west of Ireland to do. The success of the party to win ten seats in the general bima election in 1943: among the new deputies elected were Michael Donnellan, the party leader and a great man my grandfather, who finished at the top