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My Favourite Irish Saying

Howth Castle, Dublin Co., Ireland: Photo courtesy of the author

A new month brings a new list of challenges. Today, I stumbled upon one from Keeley Schroder. It’s a list of daily prompts for the month, so I’ll likely respond to a few of them.

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That said, today’s prompt is to discuss an Irish saying I love.

I have a good deal of Irish ancestry. My maternal great-great-grandmother, Theresa Acton, came across the pond from Donegal County in the early 1800s and found herself in New Brunswick, where she married, had a family and the rest is history.

One saying that got passed down through my family, and one I didn’t even know was Irish was:

He who comes with a story to you, brings two away from you.

Or as we said in my house:

If they’ll talk about others to you, they’ll talk about you to others.