Irish Passport Qualification (lighthearted)

[Happylittlethoughts]

So my Ancestry DNA report says I'm 60% Irish and only 40% Scottish. AIBU to appeal to the Irish Government that this great grounds to qualify for a passport?
Anyone else got special grounds of appeal for another country?

Oooh, wagon, I love that word

Ahhh, this thread has proper brightened my day. Really brought back some strong Irish Nanna memories. Thanks MN.

Also thanks GM & 2 x GFs for enabling me to claim ancestry and lay my hands on an Irish passport & European freedom.

@LemonLymanDotCom your name has brightened my day 😂

I'm from London and we have always said going out or going out out (as evidenced by Mickey Flanagan's comedy tour :-)).

Does it mean something different in Ireland?

PS I love the turn of phrase of the Irish. Bloody brilliant.

My late father had a lot of colourful expressions.

'Stop acting the gom'.
'I don't give a tiddler's fiddle'.
'That's codology'.
'You're full of ráiméis'.
'Some other ol foola will do it'.
'Says he/says she/says I' when he was telling a story.
'If the good Lord spares us'.

He used to get the 'messages' too and was always turning off the immersion when the water was only lukewarm.

Have we mentioned traybakes vs. Pastries yet?

Tis far from traybakes or pastries I was reared!

Apple or blackberry tart, buns (also known as queen cakes but never cupcakes or muffins), sponge cake, breac, homemade brown bread (never known as soda bread), currant cake or curranty cake (never known as white soda bread), flan (never hear of or see these now), Christmas cake. Eclairs and doughnuts only from cafés. Occasionally brownies.

My grandmother was big into baking though so if we were at her house we might get fancy stuff like meringues, pavlova and profiteroles (sp?).

Never saw broccoli till I was a teenager, or any type of lettuce except butterhead.

Yes! Queen cakes or apple tarts were the norm for us, occasionally trifle. A box of cream cakes from the shop was a treat; long doughnuts and custard slices.

I remember the first time we bought kiwis when I was a teenager. We weren't sure how to eat them so we ate the whole thing, skin and all!

I still make flans, yum!

We also had “ stop acting the maggot!” And girls were affectionately referred to as cutties!

Oh I remember 'Stop acting the maggot!'

Colourful swear word with religious overtones;
'Jesus, Mary and Holy St. Joseph!'

That was from my mother.

*What does 'put the delph in the press' mean?

Put the good crockery away before I belt yer round the ear.
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Does it derive from Delft?

I am only FBR Irish but I have vivid memories of flat lemonade and barley sugar when I was sick. Fetching stuff from the press and the smell of a peat fire.

I miss my Christmas’s in Ireland.

If someone could explain the exact difference between being ‘happy’ and being ‘happy out’ I’d be very appreciative.

Oh and those guilty of ‘tricky bollocks’

Usually to do with dodgy driving

We had Jesus, Mary and sweet St Joseph. Also sweet Jesus and sweet Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ almighty. Still caused us endless amusement when Miley said 'well, Holy God'. Stop acting the maggot was popular too.

We just washed the dishes though, though I heard delph in other houses. We never did the washing-up either. Always got the messages but I never hear that now. I think kiwis arrived around 87/88?

Thumbing a lift, not hitch hiking. Used with or without the lift part. Thumbed or thumbing somewhere did become hitched or hitching somewhere though, sometime in the 90s, I'd say.

Happy out is out and out happy. Or is that an Irishism too? Means totally, wholly entirely, as opposed to happy enough/fairly happy.

I have just looked it up in the dictionary to find ar fad ar fad , 'entirely, entirely' given as an alternative to amach is amach 'out and out' so I suppose it is another direct translation at play.

Yes, Apileofballyhoo, kiwis arrived around '87/'88. It's a wonder we didn't choke on their hairy hides

There wasn't delph in our house either, we did the dishes. It was around 1990 when we got the dishwasher.

'Happy out' is very happy, more than just 'happy'.

My father never are pizza or pasta. 'I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole!'

We only started eating such exotic foods from when I was a teenager. When I say that to my kids, they are 'gobsmacked'.

My auntie does ‘Jesus, Mary, Joseph and the wee donkey’

For any line of duty fans, I love when Ted busts out a ‘mother o’ god’

The wee donkey 😅😅😅

@Duckwit

Who else desperately wanted to enter the Rose of Tralee and imagined what they would do for their 'talent bit'?

Oh my granny was desperate for a granddaughter to enter! She had one grandchild playing county (there's another Irish-ism I think) and a Rose would set it off.

Mind you, she never forgave yer one down the road who one upped them all by having a son ordained by the Pope himself

I one worked with a lovely older lady who tried to persuade all the young guys we worked with to apply to be escorts for Rose of Tralee.

She thought it was a brilliant thing to put on a CV

She didn’t seem to care about the Roses. Maybe she thought none of us were up to scratch.

There should be a question on the meaning of 'getting the shift in coppers' on that list
Shifting was raised as a rite of passage by a senator giving a speech on what young students have missed out on during the pandemic