School: Carlingford (B.)
- Location:
- Carlingford, Co. Louth
- Teacher: C. Ó Blunaigh
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- Contributed by Thomas Elmore, Sth. Commons.
1. Life is one damn thing after another.
2. Fine fathers make fine birds.
3. When speaking of a person's faults, pray don't forget your own. For they who live in homes of glass, should never throw a stone.
4. The team that win's to-day lives to be beaten another day.
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- Thomas Elmore
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carlingford, Co. Louth
- Contributed by Patk. Kearney, Chapel Hill.
1. When you're "down in the mouth" think of Jonah. He came out all right. (i)
2. If you buy meat cheap, when you look at it, you smell what you've saved.
3. A good turn in the kitchen is as good as a prayer in the chapel.
4. There was never a five pound note but there was a ten pound want for it.
5. You can't teach an old dog new tricks, but it's never too late to learn.
6. The man that can't make a mistake can't make anything.(i) Jonah was a man of olden days who was thrown overboard a ship, and was swallowed by a whale before he was drowned. Jonah happened to have a knife on him and he started stabbing the whale inside. The whale feeling pain swam to the beach where he coughed up Jonah. Jonah then killed the whale and had him for sale. - Informant
- Patrick Kearney
- Gender
- Male
