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School: Bullán (roll number 13432)

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Bullaun, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Eoghan Ó Muimhneacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0059, Page 0086

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    6. You can put an old head on young shoulders.
    7. It's better to be born lucky than rich.
    8. Shut mouths catch no flies.
    9. A man without learning wearing good cloths is like a gold ring in a barrow pigs nose.
    10. Nobility without gentility is like a pudding without fat and gentility without nobility is far worse than that.
    11. A sweet woman is never wholesome.
    12. Bend the rod when it is young.
    13. Mind the pence and the pounds will mind themselves.
    14. Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy wealthy and wise.
    Got from: My father Denis age 53, Ballymurry, Bullaun.
    By: Christy Deely, same address on the 13th May 1938.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Christy Deely
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballymurry, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Denis Deely
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    53
    Address
    Ballymurry, Co. Galway