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WATCH: Archive footage of a conversation with an Irish gravedigger from 1971
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This archive footage shows an Irish gravedigger explaining what it's like to be in his line of work.
Gravedigger Paudge dug his first grave in 1912.
The costs for a grave in those days were £3, £2 or 30 shillings and £5 would pay for a funeral and a plot.
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The man with nothing in his pocket will go, and the man with the thousands will have to go too."