School: Lúbán Díge (Bodyke)
- Location:
- Bodyke, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Bríd, Bean Uí Chadhla
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Sean Fhocail
14.Too far east is west(be ware of extremes.)
15.When your neighbours house is on fire se to your own.
16.The mill cannot grind with the water that is gone.
17 If you have not horses you must plough with asses.
18 Treat your friend as if he would be one day your enemy.
19.Beg from a beggar and you'll never be rich.
20.Work well begun is half done.
21.A good fire and enough to eat is half feeding.
22.Cows in Connaught wear long horns.This is very common when people are telling about well off children in America where no one else knows about.
23.Blood is thicker than water.
This is said when people (blood relations )stand by each other time of trouble -(election etc).
24.You cant knock blood out of a turnip.You cant get good qualities from parents who havent them.
25 Like daddy ,like child.Who would the children be like but their father.Sure it is not the neighbours.
26.He is as thick (ignorant0as a bittle (dlis)
27.I felt as big as a mountain.(going into a place not getting any welcome: not wanted)
28.If you marry a woman from the mountain you marry the whole mountain.
29.Trees wont grow in the air.
30.The long road for the slow walker
31.You cannot throw an old dog off his trot
Long Habits are hard (if ever) to get rid of.(continues on next page)
