School: Tullogher, Ros Mhic Treoin (roll number 14648)

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1. Old Prayer - Passion of Jesus (continued)

   

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   seemed to be soldiers were around her bed one night. When asked what business took him to the girl's room at night he became confused: so seemingly the girl needed the protection of the Angels.

   

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2. Irish Words and Sayings Used in Conversation

   

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   continued from p. 128 A child was called "Bradach" if mischievous (in Co. Sligo) and here in Kilkenny a cow is called "braddy" if she is constantly getting into a field or corn etc., and so doing mischief: it must be Bradach is meant. I often heard my grandmother call one of us when children "Graithe gan iarraidh" for interfering with things not our own, or for doing a thing we hadn't been asked to do. Another expression - used of grown up people too fond of giving advice to others was that they were too fond of putting in their "Ladair (speech or opinion) gan fheadar gan iarraidh,"

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