School: Loughduff (C.)
- Location:
- Loughduff, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chonghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0987, Page 189
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- There is a great number of old Irish sayings. When a bad deed is done to anyone they say, "When man to man is so unjust, it is hard to know the man to trust".
Other old sayings are, "A willful waste makes a woeful want". "God may bless you, and increase your store, and put it in your heart, to give me more". If you are watching another person's boots, you may go barefooted."
When a man goes to bed late and rises late we say, "Late to bed and late to rise, makes man beg before he dies" "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."
"When a man or woman wears(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Catherine Halton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumgore, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Pat Briody
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumgore, Co. Cavan
