Irish Blessings Toasts & Curses

Non-Fiction, Religion & Spirituality, Mythology, Folklore & Legends, Spirituality

Padraic O'Farrell (author)

Hardback Published on: 15/02/2019

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Synopsis

The Irish have blessings, toasts and curses for every occasion: hearing the news of a death or marriage, consoling neighbours in sorrow or sharing their joy, looking for a husband or wife, going off to work, saving turf, or having a drink at the end of the day. Irish Blessings, Toasts and Curses collects the very best of all three to produce this charming, nostalgic volume. Blessings: 'May you escape the gallows, avoid distress, and be as healthy as a trout.' Toasts: 'May the roof above us never fall in, And may us good companions beneath it, Never fall out.'Curses: 'That you may roast in hell for that and have your gravy sucked by the devil.'

Publisher: The Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN: 9781781176962
Number of pages: 160
Dimensions: 139 x 108 mm