School: An Gort Mór (roll number 8984)

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1. Proverbs (continued)

   

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   An empty cart makes most noise.
   A watched pot never boiles.
   A bird in the hand is worth too in the bush
   Live horse and you will get grass.
   Far away cows have long horns.
   It is a long lane that has not a turn.
   The older the fiddle the sweeter the tune.
   Borrowed horses have hard hoves.

   

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2. Festival Customs

   

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   Many feasts are observed in the district at the present time. Om St. Stephen's day all the young boys and sometimes the grown - ups gather together in processions and go from house singing the wren song. Some of them have mouth organs, tin-whistles, flutes and others of them have flags. They get women's clothes and they dress them-selves in different colours. They have paper hats. They shoot the wren and they put it on two posts. They are carried by two men. They go around and any of them who can sing, sing the wren song and others play on their musical instruments. There is a person

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   Topics

   1. ócáidí
      1. ócáidí (de réir trátha bliana) (~11,476)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Áine Ní Gormáin

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Patrick Mc Gorman

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   48

   Address

   Mullach Glasáin, Co. Mhuineacháin