Seachtain na Gaeilge

2025


However long the day, night comes


If it was fine till Halloween someone would be unhappy


Ireland divided is Ireland laid low


Listen to the sound of a river and you will catch a trout


The cows owner must go under her tail


Small shards suit as well as big stones for building walls


The evil deed returns to the evildoer

2024


Arguing is better than loneliness


Health is better than wealth


A fistful of a trade is better than a bagful of gold


Half is better than nothing (literally: decaying)


Better a friend in court than a pound in the purse


God helps those who help themselves


However bad Séamas is it would be worse to be without him

2023


Better to be idle than up to no good


It’s a long road that has no turning


Youth is a fine thing but it does not come twice


Birds of a feather flock together


It’s hard to choose between two evils


Every dog is bold in his own doorway


The crazy man reckons he is the sensible one

2022


It’s at the beginning of the disease it is easiest to cure


Rome wasn’t built in a day/Together we build castles


Tiredness goes away and the benefit remains


Familiarity breeds contempt


Life is strange

Sweet to hear is a mouth that is silent

What can’t be cured must be endured

2021


What the child sees the child does

It takes one to know one

It is in hardship that a friend is recognised

A person best knows where the shoe troubles him

2020

The knot nearest the throat is the the one to release first

The calf eaten in the belly of the cow or don’t count your chickens before they’ve hatched

The herb that can’t be found is the very one which works

What the ghost writes, the ghost reads

What goes on for a long time loses its attractiveness

The very thing a person dreads most in the world could be the best thing for him

What can’t be cured must be endured

2019

The lamb teaching its mother how to bleat

When the rod hardens with age it is difficult to bend it

The man who has a loaf will get a knife to cut it

The one who is out his share gets cold

Travellers have tales

When you are up, they drink to you

When you are down, they kick you

2018

The person who gains the reputation of getting up early can sleep late

He who does not sympathise with your plight, don’t make your complaint to him

Whoever will not accept advice must accept strife

He who does not get a grip on the job, the job gets a grip on him

He who is not strong has to be clever

He who is lucky in the morning tends to be lucky in the evening too

The impossible cannot be done