School: St Peter's, Phibsboro
- Location:
- Phibsborough, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: Ss. Breathnach
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0799, Page 236
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: St Peter's, Phibsboro
- XML Page 236
- XML “The Boy who Was Sent to a College to Learn Latin”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Nicholas Campbell N.T. (obiit 19169) retired teacher used tell the following story.A farmer sent his son to a college (probably some classical hedge-school) to learn Latin. The father was very anxious that his son should be a step above him and as was customary at the time there was a widespread acknowledgement of the saying:-"Ní Leígeann go laidin".The boy however, had no aptitude for scholarly attainments. On his first arrival home his father was enxious that the son should display some knowledge of latin and iin presence of the neighbours he questioned him as follows:-What is the Latin for house! - oh "housibus" came the answer. 'I see' says the father 'that's good - now give me the Latin for 'horse' - 'horsibus' says the son. Aye says the father rather thoughtfully. Now tell me the Latin for 'cow' - 'Cowibus' came the immediate the answer. Now look here says the irate father you take this 'graipibus' and scattered out this 'manuribus' or by gadibus I'll break your backibus'. That finished the lad's classical(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Séamus Breathnach
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Nicholas Campbell
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Teacher
