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School: Kilcullen (B.)

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Kilcullen, Co. Kildare
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Broin
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    Whenever a person is boasting about all the trades he knows and he not knowing how to do anything he is called "Jack of all trades and master of none".
    If a field is ploughed and the furrow is crooked the people say "It was not a Kerry man ploughed that field".
    When a man is taking his time when he is working, and if the foreman tells him to hurry on with the work he says that "Rome was not built in a day" Then
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Pádraig De Núinnseáin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kilcullen, Co. Kildare
    Informant
    Peter Phelan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    40
    Address
    Kilcullen, Co. Kildare