School: Naomh Eoin, Cill Choinnigh (roll number 1301)

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1. A Fairy Story - The Banshee (continued)

   

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   away she flew crying! crying! Oh! what awful wailing is still in my ears. I hurried home through the hills and arrived at last at the homestead. I expected to her the music and mirth of a joyous gathering inside. "My God." No. There was the bare cottage the door flung wide, four lights burned. Breathless I rushed inside. "Merciful God" twas my mother dead! Dead and white as the fallen leaves, with my brothers and sisters kneeling at her bedside. In the distance I could hear the faint cry of the Banshee and with the echo dying! dying! dying! in my ears I kissed the cold lips of my dead mother."

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2. Old Sayings

   

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   Old Sayings
   On entering a house a person says God save all here. The answer is God save you kindly, or Céad míle fáilte romhat.
   God bless the mark. is used when one person is talking about a crippled person or someone is disabled in some way.
   He's as bold as brass.
   That's there since Adam was a boy.
   He's as old as the hills.
   Sure, he's as blind as a bat, and as deaf as a beetle.

   

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