School: Cúl Umha (Cailíní)
- Location:
- Cooloo, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Mhurchú
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0081, Page 356
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- 1.
Patches upon patches and it is as hard as your head and it was never sowed with a needle or thread.-
head of cabbage
2.
Constantinople is a very big word and you are a very big dunce if you cannot spell it -
it
3.
One fine day in the middle of the night, two dead men got up to fight, two blind men looking on, cripples running for the police and two dummies shouting hurry on -
lie
4.
What makes more noise than a pig at the door -
two pigs.
5.
When Daniel Ó Connell was sixty six years old where was he going?
into his sixty-seventh
6.
London, Derry, Cork, and Kerry, spell me that without a 'k' -
that
7.
As I went up the hill I met a hundred devils and they scraping, scraping. -
a harraw
8.
What goes out but it does not go out in any place in the house -
fire
9
It goes up the chimney down but it does not go down the chimney up - an umbrella.
10.
When has a goose the worst feathers. - when the gander is on top of her.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Póilín Ní Annáin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Mullaghmore North, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Patrick Mc Hugh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Mullaghmore North, Co. Galway
