School: Corr Riabhach
- Location:
- Correagh Glebe, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: R. Mac Éamuis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1000, Page 057
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- A man without learning and wearing fine clothes, is like a gold ring in a barrow pig's nose.
Death comes like a thief in the night.
He who fights and runs away lives to fight another day.
Ignorants is the mother of im-pudence.
Ireland is a nation old and grand.
Keep a thing for seven years and it will come in useful.
Unity is strength.
A Haw year is a breágh year a sloe year is a woe year.
If the "cuc-koo" sings on a bare thorn, sell your cow and buy corn.
As you live yourself you judge your neighbour.
When it rains it pores.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen O Brien
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dunancory, Co. Cavan
