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remember a short story about potato picking kids ?

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04-11-2013 6:23pm

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ronankan

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remember a short story about potato picking kids who were skipping school ,thought it would be a great day and turned out back breaking ,we did it in school around 1980 ?
Can anyone remember what this story was and who wrote it please ?

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#2 04-11-2013 8:43pm
echo beach

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I also did that one and can still remember it over thirty years later which is surely the mark of a great story. I have a feeling it is a Brian Friel story and called The Potato Gatherers or something similar. It might well be in the Exploring English book of short stories for Inter Cert which has been re-issued.

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#3 04-11-2013 9:31pm
ronankan

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Yes that's the one ,thanks

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