poor man" or "as open-handed as Saint Brigid"
25. To describe richness -
As rich as a king," "as rich as honey's taste," as rick as Irelands soil.
26. As firm as a rock, or a lobster's grip
27. "Busy as a liar in company or a hen at a bag of oats"
28 A strong man is said to (be as busy as a liar in) "as hardy as a hedgehog"
29. Greedy men are said " to be "as greedy as death."
30. A small object is said to be "as tiny as a wren's mouth" or as the difference between right and wrong.
31. "It is not every day that Manus kills a bullock"
32. It is not the big stones alone that build as castle
33 Every hound is a pup untill it hunts.

(1) A Prospector's Tale
(2) The Blood of '16
(3) Because He Tells Me To
(4) O Blame Me Not
(5) Keep Hoping On
(6) The Retired Fisherman
(7) For 'Tis The Spring
(8) Wrach Cutting
(9) The Dulse Pulse
(10) The Lobster Fisher.Note: All the above have been written by one who refuses to give his name

5Local Curesback, and these people lived to be old men and women.
I have not practised this for the past 25 years, for the following reason. I was lobster fishing in Ballycotton about twenty-five years ago, and I met a man named John O'Brien, who warned me never to use this cure again because he told me that as sure as I would, I would one day suffer from a sore myself, which could not be cured. So not for all the gold in the world would I practise this now, and I have made up my mind never again to do it.
I got the fore-going story from:
Richard Cotter,
Hare Island South,
Church Cross,
Skibbereen,
Co. Cork
He will be 73 years in April 1939.
Occupation: Small farmer & fisherman

"Why is a lobster like bread in the sea"?
Ans Because it is bred in the sea.
What smells most in a Chemist shop?
Ans. Your nose.
What tree is like a cigarette?
Ans The ash.
What does a sailor lose every time he goes to sea?
Ans. Sight of land.
What has a head but no face?
Ans. A match.
What is it a black hen can do and a white hen can't?
Ans A black hen can lay a white egg and a white hen can't lay a black egg.

(139) As rich as honey's taste.
(140) As rich as Ireland's soil.
(141) As sweet as the Blackbirds call in harvest.
(142) As sweet as the fall of the wave on the strand
(143) As sweet as the speech of the Gael.
(144) As firm as a rock.
(145) As firm as lobster's grip.
(146) As firm as an Irish promise.
(147) As straight as the law of God.
(148) As crooked as the law.
(149) As busy as a liar in company.
(150) As busy as a hen at a bag of oats.
(151) As hardy as a hedgehog.
(152) As greedy as death.

As white as the foam on the rocks.
As white as the Virgin's garment.
As white as the soul of a child.As rich as a king.
As rich as honey's taste.
As rich as Ireland's soil.As sweet as a blackbirds call in Harvest
As sweet as the fall of the wave on the strand.
As sweet as the speech of the Gael.As princely as a poor man.
As open-handed as St. Brigid.As firm as a rock.
As firm as a lobster's grip.
As firm as a Irish promise.

A wet and a windy May fills the haggard with corn and hay.
Far away cows wear long horns.
When the cat is out the mouse can play.
A stitch in time saves nine.
Wilful waste makes woeful want.
Where there's a will, there's a way.
As firm as a lobster's grip.
A burned child dreads the fire.
An ounce of March dust is worth a king's ransom.
Live horse and you will get grass.
A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.
Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
The early bird catches the worm.
The worst cow in the bawn bawls first.
As wild as a March hare.

5. I went to an apple tree on which there were apples. I took no apples off it and I left no apples on it. How could that be?Answer. There were two apples on it. I took one apple off it and one apple remained6. What is it that flies high, lights low, cuts the grass but never mows?Answer. Heavy frost7. Why is a shoemaker's shop like Hell?Answer. Because it is all bad soles go to it8. What is the difference between a jeweller and a jailer?Answer. One sells watches, the other watches cells9. A house full of people and not a single one in it.Answer. They were all married ones10. How many feet on fourty sheep, a shepard and his dog?Answer. Two11. I see through the wave back against the sun a man with a blue suit and a red thread in his shirt.Answer. A lobster

As clever as a jailor.
As light fisted as a Scotch man.
As stiff as a stake.
As black as the ace of spades.
As long as a late breakfast.
As crooked as the joker.
As hardy as a hedgehog.
As white as the soul of a child.
As firm as a lobster's grip.
As tiny as a wren's mouth.
As bitter as the taste of truth.
The man on the sideline is the best hurler.
As fierce as a lion.
As strange as a horse.
As strong as a house.
As high as the sky.
As green as a leek.
As brown as a berry.
As blue as the sky.
A penny for your thoughts.
As smooth as silk.

Báirleóg - (Bawr-lyóg) locally - a waving seaweedBáirseach -(Bawr-shick) locally a talkative big woman "scold"Ballachraí - (Bollockaree) Bait shellfishBanbhín - (Bonyubh) also usedBarróg - (Brogue) accentuationBasa - (Boss) Boss of an oar (flat blade)Bearna - (Bar na) A gap between boatsBladaire - (Blather) A person who talks too muchBlas - (Bloss) TasteBlob - (Drop of liquid)Bóithrin - (Bohereen)Brosna - (Bruss na) A faggot stickBros - (Bruss) Leavings of sods or turfsCámar - (Cawmar) Not a care upon him, undisturbed Phrase Nota a CÁMUR on him.Cáibín - (Kawleen) usual ( an old hat )Clabhta - (Klout) a clout a knockCliabh - (kleev) a kind of lobster pot

Cloughboy (Cloch - bhuidhe)
The Skelp - scealp - steep bank.
Poll-a-tarive - where a bull fell into sea.
Lobster-rock -
Port a lán - long narrow strip of bog.
Ard a mhaoirigh - shepherds height.
Cnoc a h-úan - frequented by sheep, sloping bank.
Poll a madaidh-ruaidh - foxes den.
(mín na n-ionghan / mín an iongan) meaning not known.
The Minister's Rock - Protestant minister swept off rock while fishing and drowned.
Oilean machaire - level island
Poll a leathaigh - hole where sea weed is plentiful.
Traigh bán - white strand.
Oweygrania - Grania's cave.
Uaigh na muirrigh / Úg-na-muirrigh - Cave where bent or sea grass grows.
Carrich a duivan - where sea birds rest.
Meádal - rock over submerged and causing sea swell or builg.
Tobar Anna - Anne's well.
Inis bearnog / Inis bearnach - gapped island.
Tobar Ruaidhri - Rory's well.
The Bailtee - high bank of sand on strand.
The Dóirlins - Collection of round stones washed up by tide.

IV
The haulings done & the pots are in
& now again to set them
It's not all fun but it must be done
& you must keep going to get them.
The pots all laced & baited well
Are dropped to their beds in the seaweed.
What luck next time one never can tell
But he hopes 'tis luck to relieve need.
V
With the work all o'er he makes for the shore
As he paddles across the water.
He hears the noise of his hearty boys
& the laughs of his wife & daughter.
& within the glow of the turf fire bright
He eats a hearty supper.
& renews his strength with a peaceful night
& hunts again for the lobster.

Fish
...................Famaire
Shark ling
Trout haddock
Dog-fish bull head
salmom whiting
lobster sting-fish
Cod sole
herring cruaban
mackeral cos máglain
fluke blind-hayes
glasan
shellog
skate
leac-ruabhj
sand-eel
eel
mabadh donn
red mallet
gournet7cat-fish
crab
partran
piceach

muca mara - herringhog or tumblerdeisean - rock herringrannaidhe - mackerelgarbháin - garvanléab - fluketrosc - coddusach - grey-lord (scales resembles eel)madadh donn - lingmathair chorr - small sand eelsníghe - sand-eelcruadán - hard-head flargheadleac ruadh - reddish fish -green undergubbógaí - dog fisheascon - eelgliomóg - lobstercrubán - pinkish crabpartán - long legged crabféachógaí - winklesDallóg Caoch - Blind-RayeJoseph Ua Duibhir
Rang 5.

22) Gréasaidhe - cobbler23) Béál Dubh -24) Dallóg - cat fish25) An Pá(l) mhaire - dog fish26) An Portán - crab
27) Faoisteóg (faoisteán) - female crab 1adh blian
28) Bun-portán - 2" bl.
29) Cailleach - 3adh bl.
30) Limneóg - green crab
31) Cleireach - male crab
32) Portán Éireann - soft crab (used for baits)
33) Cnúdán - gurnet
Cnúdán Dearg - red gurnet
34) Trosc - Cod fish35) Faoitín - whiting
36) Leathóg - plaice
37) Leathóg Bhán - sole
38) Leathóg Mhuire - turbot
39) Gliomach - lobster
40) Gliomach Spáinneach -
41) Eisrigh - oyster42) Breac - trout43) Cudóg - haddock44) Ronnach - (mackerel)?45) Scadán - herring
Peter McGowan
Kilmacannon
Cloughboley

I used to spread my rope. (?)
(VII)Bad luck to the big factories
Likewise the woollen mills
Before they were invented
My home with freeze was filled
But since they were directed (?)
The (?) are gone
And you'd scarcely see a rapper now
Except on Paddy Tom.
(VIII)And if they may return to me
My customs are gone
I vow to them I never would gont (?)
a lobstering again.
I'd wash (?) both late and early
And that (?) both night and day
And weave for them the double (?)
And that will never fray.
(IX)Welcome to my thruttle (?) sticks,
To them I'll now return
Bad luck to the Lobster pots,
T'is them (?) I now will burn,
I often thought twould be the case,
What Donovan's Tom did say,
For many a time he told me

scrapes better.
An empty vessel never leaks.
After a storm comes a calm.
Home sweet home there is no place like home.
Beef to heels like a Mullingar heifer.
Deep water runs smoth.
Fine feathers make fine birds.
The more the hurry the less speed.
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
If you marry in May you will rue the day.
John fell out through the box.
The man with the most talk is not the best worker.
The man on the ditch is the best hurler.
As white as a soul of a child.
As firm as a lobster's grib.
As rich as Erin's soil.
As sweet as honey.
As black as pitch, as green as grass.
As white as milk.
The sun comes out after the rain.
When the cat is out the mouse can dance.
A good beginning is half the work.
It is not a strong man that has all the sense.
The longest road has a turning.
The first of the sup is the hottest.
There is no table like your own table.
The earliest bird picks the earliest worm.

Bullary. Waddis. Moses
Polo. Sean a Branch. Butten
Namock. Honey Bunch. Macky.
Balbo. Birdy. Cockny
Ram. Tomóh. Scipper
Pats Vat. Buster Keating. Skeleton
Wyke. Subal. Puck
n the Gunner Eye. Suds. Swat
Gravy. Bag of Wind. Fox
Three legged rebel. . Buddy. Yonsti's
Gaukey. crisk. Seán Jack
Borris. Ivers. Diver
Joley. Major. Gás
Duck egg. Marshall. Miser
Jim Pot. Mora. Cuas
Moush. Maen. Gutaí
Lobster. N. C. Joe Mór
Punsy. Strasight Banana. Connie Seán Fada
Budso. Goggin. Mion Ghol
Pudden. Ballinsannig Boy. Tomás Seán Mór
Mug. Seamus Micilín. Johnnie na Tighthe Nuadh.
Awk. Bub. Oaidín an tSasnaigh.
Sean Srada. Sally. Mollie Tomáisín
Raob. Tull. Maidhche Machín
Perk. Boyo. Maire Eóin
Belgian. seabs. Bachall

scadán - herring
bradán - salmon
muirlis - macerel
mioltá mór - whale
breac donn - brown trout
breac bán - white trout
bralan - sea slugs
futhóg - perrywinkles
fartann - clams
cora - sandells
easgán - eel
gunadór - sting fish
scadain bhigh - sprat
pártán - crab
garbhan - brazerscian bharra - brazor-fish
speal - milt
othair - roe
roan - seal
gliomach - lobster
sliagan dhubh - mussel
siolaide sliogan - shell-
sruathan - cockle - snail
beath allta - sea horse

AN-CHOITTHIANTA
Coínín, luchóg-mór, luchóg bheag
Easóg, Grámeóg, Girrfhiadh
Lurapóg, Arc-Slíabh (Luchóg codálta, no luchóg féir)
NEAMH-CHOITTHIANTA
Madadh-Ruadh (nó Sionnach)
Madadh - Uisge (dobhar-chú)
BrocFiadh. (coitthianta ins an pháirc mhóir shuas imeasg na sléibhte i Gleann-Bheithe)
Rón - (coitthianta i n-áiteanna síos ar an tráigh i gCuan na Long)
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Corrach - Sandeels
Sgadán - Herring
Breac - Trout
Bradán - Salmon
Easconn - Eel
Gliomach - Lobster
Partán - Crab
Muirlirc - MackeralRuarcán - Cockles
Báirneach - (Black Shell Fish)
Sligeán Dubh - Mussels
Sileóg - Wilks