Conway Mill Trust

“A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.”  ” We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love each other.”

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Grant me a sense of humor, Lord The saving grace to see a joke, To win some happiness from life, And pass it on to other folk.

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“A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he’s just as good as everyone else.” by JB Keane                                                                                             

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‘The Roads of Ireland’ by Seamus O’Flannagain They weave, twist, hump, dive, turn, writhe, And even now, when they vow To run direct before you, They’re got doubling back In mind. Ahhhhhh- They’re the true map of the soul of Ireland.

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He’s first at the pot and last at the work. He’s a man at the food and a weakling at the work. Help is a good thing, except at the dinner table.

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“The cow is milked from her head”–the food that is put under a cow’s head determines the amount of milk she will give. Metaphorically speaking, getting a good story (or milking) from someone by offering good food. “It went where it was needed.”  In Ireland, it is believed that if a cow kicked over the […]

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“A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.” by Thomas Francis Meagher.

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” Men always want to be a woman’s first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man’s last romance.” Oscar Wilde.

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Memorial Day was first created to remember those who died during the American Civil War. It was called Declaration Day and was not observed by all U.S. states until after World War I. This poem was written by Longfellow to honor the Irish who died during the Civil War: Your silent tents of green, We […]

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‘He couldn’t make a dog wag his tail.’ (very unhappy) ‘A pain endured is an inch grown.’ ‘Listeners never hear good of themselves.’ (eavesdroppers hear people speak unkind of them) ‘Be grateful for your own lot.’ (there will always be someone richer or poorer) ‘Scarcer than holy water in an Orange Hall’ (non-existant) ‘Sure, who […]

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