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School: Cléireacháin, Cluain Meala

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Ballyclerahan, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
James Bates
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0567, Page 164

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    1) A closed mouth catches no flies
    2) A wet and windy May
    Fills the farmer's haggard with corn and hay
    3) When the wind is in the East
    It is neither good for man or beast
    4) Nothing for nothing in Borrisokane
    5) All together like Browne's cows
    6) A crow's egg, laid high or low
    if hatched by a dove, turns out a crow
    7) You cant make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, or
    a racehorse out of an ass
    8) Always late but never absent
    9) Come-day, go-day, God send Sunday
    10) No fireside like your own fireside
    11) Have it yourself or be without it
    12) In in (?) one ear and out in the other
    13) Half a loaf is better than no bread
    14) What comes from the Devil, goes to the Devil
    15) Soher and easy, goes far in the day
    16) The more, the merrier
    17) The early bird catches the worm
    18) Whats made hard, goes easy
    19) In and out like a fiddler's elbow
    20) In and out like a hen with an egg
    21) Whats bread in the bone comes out in the flesh
    22) A straw best shows how the wind blows
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    William Ahearne
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    70
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Ballyveelish South, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Mary Ahearne
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    88
    Address
    Ballyveelish South, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Denis Ahearne
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    70
    Address
    Ballyveelish South, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Hanora Ahearne
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    72
    Address
    Ballyveelish South, Co. Tipperary