School: Bullán (roll number 13432)

Location:
Bullaun, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Eoghan Ó Muimhneacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0059, Page 0116

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  1. Proverbs
    I got very interesting proverbs from My Father.
    No1. A man without learning wearing good clothes is like a gold ring in a barrow pug's nose.
    No2. Rome was not built in a day.
    No.3. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
    No4. Look before you leap.
    No5. Think twice before you speak once.
    No6. Gentility without nobility is like a pudding without fat and nobility without gentility is far worse than that.
    No7. A burnt child dreads the fire.
    Got by: Nellie Wade Benmore, Bullaun, Loughrea.
    From: My father Mick, same address. age 52 yrs.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nellie Wade
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ben More, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Mick Wade
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    52
    Address
    Ben More, Co. Galway
  2. 2-12-38 Folklore
    When there is an eclipse in the moon it gets clouded. Long ago when an eclipse used to come in the moon, the old people used to think that it would be the end of the world, and some of them used to kill themselves. The first star that comes in the sky is called the evening star, and the last star that stays in the sky is called the morning star. Got from: Mr. Wade Mick. Benmore Bullaun Loughrea age 52 3-12-38
    By- Nellie Wade same address.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.