School: Monart (roll number 15741)
- Location:
- Monart East, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Elionóir, Bean Úi Fhuidhleach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0893, Page 164
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- (continued from previous page)164Never judge a book by its cover.
All light tasks were hard at first.
Jests misplaced make hearers frown.
April showers bring forth May flowers.
Birds of a feather flock together.Name : George Lett.
- The May BushOn the first of May people get a holly tree and they gather egg shells and put them on it, They light little candles, put them on the tree and put coloured papers it.Name: John Tector.
- Collector
- John Tector
- Gender
- Male
- Some children make a May bush on May day. First they put a branch of a white thorn 'sgeac' into the ground. Then they cover it with empty egg shells, bits of coloured papers and primroses.Name: Victor Gainfort
- Collector
- Victor Gainfort
- Gender
- Male
