School: Curry (C.) (roll number 12067)
- Location:
- Curry, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chaomháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0170, Page 0624
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- D'obair ó lá go lá
D'obair ó lá go lá
Ó's éigean duit féin
A leanamhaint go tréan
Nár b'fhearr duit a leanamhaint le grádhBríghid Ní Éalbháird
( ó Peadar Ó Mearáin)
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- Bríghid Ní Éalbháird
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- Informant
- Peadar Ó Mearáin
- Gender
- Male
- When Saint Columba got ashore on the white strand of Iona a flounder raised its head out of the water and said mockingly:-
"O Saint of the hoardy head". Columba replied "If I'm a hoardy head may you be a wry mouth and may your two eyes be on the temple and that is how the flounder got its crooked mouth.
