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School: Cill Dá Lua (B.)

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Killaloe, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Mícheál Ó Loingsigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0587, Page 045

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    The following are some sayings which ae peculiar to this district:-
    As big as Dan Gallerys Pike.
    When a person is boasting about the size of anything, another person may say in a sarcastic manner "Oh, it is as big as Dan Gallerys pike"
    Dan who is now dead was a noted liar and spent most of his life fishing on Lough Derg. All his incredible yarns delt with his adventure as a fisherman. If by a rare piece of luck he hooked a small miserable pike he who tell everybody whom he met that night that he had landed after a desperat struggle with a monster pike. thus the saying "As big as Dan Gallerys pike has found its way into the every day conversation
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Joseph Hayes
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    12
    Informant
    James Hayes
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    Killaloe, Co. Clare