School: Cill Cúlach
- Location:
- Kilcooly, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Séamus Mac Lochlainn
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0054, Page 0272
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- (continued from previous page)You cant take blood from a turnip.You cant expect wool in a goats home.You wont find a bun in a china shop.Life is what you make it.You cant give what you have not got.You would catch more flies with spoon of honey than with a barrel of tar.What the eye wont see wont trouble the heart.A bird in your fist is worth two in a bush.When the cat is out the mouse can play.
- You are as wild as a March hare.You're as busy as a bee in a tar-barrel.You're as giddy as an eel.If you dont sow in Spring you wont reap in harvest.
- Collector
- Kitty Flanagan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rafarn, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Paddy Manning
- Address
- Lissaphuca, Co. Galway
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“There was a man in Coolaney who used to sell fruit and flowers and when a customer would ask him "what sort of fruit are you selling"..”
I never saw an oft removed tree or yet an oft removed family that throve so well as those that settled be.(continues on next page) - There was a man in Cooloney who used to sell
