School: Ballynarry
- Location:
- Ballynarry, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. Mac Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0989, Page 058
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- A man is known by his company.
Tell me your company and I will tell you who you are
Rome was not built in a day.
Your pocket is your friend
A good book is the best of friends
A friend in need is a friend indeed
Two many cooks spoil the broth
Dont go to the goats house for wool.
- Collector
- Joan Mc Garry
- Gender
- Female
- A famine is a great scarcty of food and water. It effected the country very mutch The district was populated very tickly that about one million people in the famine years died of hunger and starvation About a million people have left Ireland and went to foriegn countrys known as England Scotland and Canada to escape hunger from home. One protestant minister took off his shirt and put it on a fervent patient Sometimes sad to say a ship load of American Corn coming into and Irish Port ot feed the people would pass a ship load of Irish corn(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joan Mc Garry
- Gender
- Female
