Family prints
Cad é a dhéanfadh mac an chait ach luch a mharú?
Like father, like son.
For the child who is their parent all over again. Said with pride, mostly.
The wording is quoted exactly from the record and its cited source; personalisation touches only your own names and date, never the Irish.
About this saying
The proverb the dictionaries print is also the one the schoolchildren of Connemara wrote down in the 1930s: a Schools’ Collection page from Árd Mhór in Co. Galway carries it in the manuscript spelling of the day, which the citation preserves. The wording here is Ó Dónaill’s.