School: Bán-Tír (B.) (roll number 2803)
- Location:
- Banteer, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Síothcháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0361, Page 556
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- The road to freedom is through the thick of the sword.
Give a dog a bad name, and it sticks to him.
Put a beggar on horseback, and he rides to the devil.
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
They shall be served, who stand and wait.
I can dive like a shovel, and swim like a brick.
Everything from a needle to an anchor
Too many irons in the fire.
Money for jam
You are only building castles in the air.
Theirs suits them, and ours suits us.
At the middle of the bridge, is half way over, and six old stockings make three pairs.
A shut mouth catches no flies.
The 17th of March is Patrick's Day, and the wall behind the fire is the hob.
After a storm comes a calm.
A wet day is as long as a week.
An end to everything, but no end to the world.
Long churning makes bad butter.
The ripest apple is the first to rot.
The darkest hour is before the dawn.
You should never trouble trouble, till trouble troubles you, for when a man is troubled, he will always trouble you.
- Collector
- David Deady
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Loughlea, Co. Cork
