School: Rush (C.) (roll number 16125)
- Location:
- Rush, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: Mrs Monahan
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- Some proverbs used by the people in rush are: "When Lambay wears a cap let Rush men beware of that.""Wooden legs run in families.""A green Christmas makes a rank graveyard.""A green coated Mother-in-law is always the best"The first proverb is giving advice to sailors. The second one is usually said by the old people. When they talk about a person who perhaps has some disease they say "It runs in the blood like the wooden legs.""A Green Christmas makes a rank graveyard" means that when a Christmas is very fine or mild(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Clarke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rush, Co. Dublin