The Sayings of Malachi Horan of Killinarden Hill, Tallaght
The Sayings of Malachi Horan of Killinarden Hill, Tallaght Malachi Horan was born in the year 1847 on Killinarden Hill, Tallaght, and lived for almost 100 years. In his mid 90s he related his memories and stories to Dr. George A. Little of the Old Dublin Society. They were published as ‘Malachi Horan Remembers' (1943). Malachi died in 1946 and is buried in Saggart Graveyard. “Maybe someday you will wear his shoes, but you will never have the head to fill his hat”. “He heard them warn him not to open his grave, with his mouth”. “Mercy was out of town in those days”. “Hard times breed hard men, and hard men make rough manners”. “If people, in those days, had no great caring for the law, the law had now great caring for them”. Ay, times change, but I doubt if we change with them”. “There be men fit to travel the mountains and there be some whose foot should never bruise heather”. “If no man laboured the land, the mountain would take back its own”. “The drin