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School: St. Anne's (B.)

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Bailieborough, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
P. Mac an t Saoir
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    would be none at all."
    "April showers bring May flowers"
    "There is no help or cure against death"
    "It is hard to cut the wool of a goat."
    "Life is better than all the money in this world"
    "What the ear will not hear will not trouble the heart."
    "If you break a looking glass you will have seven years bad luck."
    If you kill a swallow you will have seven years bad luck.
    If you are looking at the ground you hear the cuckoo
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Emmet Clarke
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Bailieborough, Co. Cavan
    Collector
    Johnny Kearans
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Bailieborough, Co. Cavan
    Collector
    Philip Shaffrey
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Bailieborough, Co. Cavan
    Collector
    Sean Traynor
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Bailieborough, Co. Cavan
    Collector
    Willie Cahill
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Galbolie, Co. Cavan