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School: Nuadhan (Noan), Dúrlas Éile

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Noan, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Máire Ní Ghormáin
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    A crowing hen and a whistling woman bring the devil out of his den.
    The watched pot never boils.
    The long thread of the lazy tailor.
    A year of sloes is a sorrowful year.
    Marry a mountain woman and you marry the mountain.
    Big head - little sense.
    Rubbing grease on the fat pig's back.
    A chip of the same block.
    The person who talks most works least.
    The world wouldn't make a racehorse of an ass.
    He would drink the Shannon dry.
    He could see the grass growing.
    Selling honey and buying sweets.
    One without a dinner two for supper.
    He is a poor priest who has not a clerk.
    Where the women are, there is talk.
    The nearer the bone the sweeter the flesh.
    The jewel that is difficult to find is the most beautiful.
    The war of friends doesn't last long.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John O' Dwyer
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballinure, Co. Tipperary