School: Gleann Bruacháin (C.), Cnoc Luinge (roll number 12614)

Location:
Glenbrohane, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Bríd, Bean Uí Sheighin
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  1. No one more like a cat than a "pusheen" You can't expect blood out of a stone.
    What's bred in the bone comes out in the flesh.
    Look for work and you'll get plenty of it.
    Live horse and you'll get grass.
    No fool like an old one.
    Better be an old man's darling than a young man's slave.
    There are two sides to every story.
    Never say die till you're dead.
    Sitting at the fire like a hatching hen.
    Grumbling and grousing like an old woman.
    Every old shoe meets an old stocking.
    Beef to the heels like the Mullingar heifer.
    Like a hen that can't lay her egg.
    Like a bun on a hot griddle.
    Marriages are made in Heaven.
    The old dog for the hard road and the pup for the puddle.
    A dumb priest never gets a parish.
    As black as the hob.
    Hide your child from the world (There's a belief that if a child - babies especially are very handsome and people are constantly remarking it, that the child would be "overlooked" and would get either delicate or lose all the good looks. So the old people advise the young people not to pass
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