Irish Proverbs and Sayings

Seamus Cashman is a poet and former book publisher – he founded the Irish literary publishing house Wolfhound Press in 1974. He has had several volumes of poetry published, including That Morning Will Come: New and Selected Poems (2007), The Sistine Gaze: I too begin with scaffolding (2015) and Talking down the Clock & Other Poems (2023), all from Salmon Poetry (salmonpoetry.com). Now living in Swords, County Dublin, he comes from the village of Conna in County Cork.

an easy-to-use guide of Irish sayings, their history and meanings