School: Baile Aodha (C.). Inis (roll number 13419)
- Location:
- Ballyea, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Bríd, Bean Uí Dhuibhgeanáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0607, Page 269
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- Do it like máthair "Seán Bhán" would do it.
Seán Báns mother always did everything in a correct and clever manner.
Look before you leap, taste before you sup.
The kettle calling the pot black.
Out of sight out of mind.
He's like as if you were pulling a rib out of his whisker, his is so peevish.
He's like a bag of weasels.
Smooth waters run deep.
He's like she would throw him out of her mouth or he's the dead spit of her.
Where there's a will there is a way.
The beginning of health is sleep and the end of health is a sigh.
Health is better than herds of cows.
People meet but the hills or mountains never meet.
A stitch in time saves nine.
You could not make a silk purse from a sow's ear.
He would drink Lough Erne or He drinks like a fish.
He can run like a hare.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Morgan Mc Inerney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyea, Co. Clare
