School: Bog-fhód (Buckode) (roll number 3736)

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1. Proverbs

   

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   There is no help or cure against death.
   It is difficult to cut wool off a goat.
   Early to bed, early to rise makes a man rich, healthy, wealthy and wise. Late to bed, late to rise makes a man foolish in spite of his eyes.
   A borrowed horse has hard hoves.
   Spend no strength in worry, you need it all for duty.
   We beg on foolscape and we thank on a postcard.
   To forgive is good will and to forget is good willpower.
   An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
   Where the women are, there is talk.

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   1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. proverbs (~4,377)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Brian Mc Gowan

   Gender

   Male

   Collector

   Brigid N. Gilmartin

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Kinlough, Co. Leitrim

   Collector

   Kathleen Mc Gowan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Aghaderrard West, Co. Leitrim

   Collector

   Kevin Clancy

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Buckode, Co. Leitrim

   Collector

   Patrick Connolly

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Gorteendarragh, Co. Leitrim

   Collector

   Sean Gilmartin

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Kinlough, Co. Leitrim