School: Goirtín
- Location:
- Gorteen, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Dhubhthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0078, Page 284
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- 1. This is said about an uneducated person-
A man without learning and wearing good clothes is like a good ring in a barrow pig's nose.
2 This is said about an educated person-
A man with learning and wearing bad clothes is always respected where ever he goes.
- 3 This is said about the rich person-
Those that always have enough do not know what hunger is.
4 This is said about the bad-mannered person.
What could you expect from a pig but a grunt.
5 This is said about noisy people-
Empty vessels make the most sound.
6.This is said when May comes wet and windy.
Wet and windy May fills the haggard with corn and hay.
7 This is said about a foolish person-
As mad as a march hare, as cold as ice. as hot as fire as wide as England and as tall as a spire.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Margaret O' Brien
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clogh, Co. Galway
