School: Ceathrú na hAille (Carnahallia) (roll number 7416)
- Location:
- Cahernahallia, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Madadhain
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0540, Page 357
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- "Don't count our chickens before they are hatched"
"A persons mouth often broke his nose"
"Everyone has his own story"
"A rainbow in the morning is shepherds warning. A rainbow in the night is shepherds delight"
He's a poor priest who hasn't a clerk.
It does not matter if your born in a duckyard if you're hatched from a swan egg.The world wold not a racehorse from ass.You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear.A person who fails to get what he is often striving after is often glad to accept something inferior: When all else fails, welcome haws".When a person shows no sign of gratitude for a good turn as if it passed completely from his memory people say, "Eaten bread is soon forgotten".A person is sent upon some dangerous mission as when the persons he is going to are his deadly enemies, this is "Sending the goose on a message to the fox's den".(continues on next page)
