School: Ballyroddy (roll number 12629)

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Ballyroddy, Co. Roscommon
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  1. Proverbs Continued 12-12-1937
    There's smoke out of every one's chimney to-night" as Michael Lowe said when he was coming home from town with his first old age pension money in his pocket. Michael thought his neighbours looked down on him because he was poor, so he used the above expression passing by their doors on the night he got his first five shillings
    People say now in this locality the same thing if they happen to win money at a game of cars or any other game of chance, but they don't say it until all in the game have won a round. or chalk
    Micheal Lowe was a labourer who lived on a "boreen" a few hundred yards from Ballyroddy school. He dies at the age of eighty years about twelve years ago.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Alphonsus Rushe
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Shankill, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    John Rushe
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    55
    Address
    Shankill, Co. Roscommon