School: Clochar na Trócaire, Nenagh

Location:
Nenagh, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
An tSr. Seanán
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  1. Once a priest was up on the pulpit, preaching, he said that you could not eat sausages on a Friday. There was a certain man there who used to bring the priest sticks. When the priest told him to bring some sticks, the man brought him a load of sawdust, and the priest said "Sure that is only sawdust" and the man answered "If sausages are meat so is sawdust timber.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Miss Teresa Clandillon
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    12
    Address
    Dublin Road, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Mr Michael Ryan
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    82
    Occupation
    Horse-trainer
    Address
    Dublin Road, Co. Tipperary