School: Eiscreach (roll number 13945)
- Location:
- Eskeragh, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Raghallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0153, Page 186
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- (continued from previous page)36) Money is made round to go round
37) Have it yourself or be without it.
38) Charity begins at home, but it should not end there.
39) He is as hard as nails
40) He is as tight as twopence
41) As drunk as a stick
42) Call me any thing you like but early in the morning.
43) Every man for himself and God for us all.
44) Man proposes and God disposes
45) The morning after the night before
46) Never be afraid of war until everything is (apparently) settled
47) Never be afraid of war until the Shamrock (17th March) and the palm (Palm Sunday) are worn on the same day. This incidentally I observe will occur in the year 1940
48. If it rains on St. Swithin's day (15th July), people say it will rain every day, less or more for forty days. Long ago St. Swithin who had to be conveyed across a river for burial, could not be buried for forty days owing to the torrents.
