School: Islandanny (roll number 5748/9)

Location:
Rea, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Chatháin
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  1. Every stocking meets its own shoe.
    One man can take a horse to water but twenty men could not make him drink it.
    The juice of the cow is good dead or alive.
    Time is a good story-teller.
    There is no feast like a roast and no torment like marriage.
    Your pocket is your friend.
    "The person is the Clothes". Clothes make the person.
    It is lonely to be empty.
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    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Eiblin Brosnan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Rea, Co. Kerry