20.00 NIS
SKU: 9780863274329
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Sean Gaffney and Seamus Cashman
Arranged by subject, Proverbs and Sayings of Ireland, is an illustrated collection of more than 1,000 proverbs, sayings and triads (a three part piece of wisdom) from all of over Ireland. Apart from their unceasing curiosity as "words of wisdom," proverbs enable us to peer through the half door, as it were, and glimpse the attitudes, folk memories and philosophies of a people. In this collection, little escapes the priests, the demon drink, the lover, society, ideas, virtues and vices. But there is also humor and pride, faith and love...and the odd word of "To praise God is proper, but a wise man won't blackguard the devil!"
January 1, 1995 by Wolfhound Pr
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1995,
All Products,
Contemporary,
Europe,
Nonfiction
