Retiree Petrini hopes the treasures will bring " jobs, culture and knowledge" to his village, which is struggling with depopulation like much of rural Italy.
The areas of the island that were most severely affected by the famine and depopulation were in the west and the south, where the Irish language had previously been more dominant over English.
Farms were enlarged, and the occupiers of land, notwithstanding the complaints of depopulation, reduced to the number necessary for cultivating it, according to the imperfect state of cultivation and improvement in those times.