Very Irish Things

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A thread of appreciation of things that only seem to happen in Ireland.

I was away for two weeks and a couple of days after I returned the postman knocked on my door with a big bag of packages ( they were sent from work, only two were very delayed orders). He realised I was away so instead of leaving them and risking theft or damage he stored them for me.

Anyone else any good stories?

Meeting the local TD's in the local. Yes I'm looking at you Bertie in Fagans.

Also exclusively Irish is the name of our leaders

Taoiseach and Tanaiste. Can't do fadas on iPhone.

Asking for a miner- dil

(I.e a fizzy drink)

A splash

@Dublincailin hold down the letter and you’ll get a selection that pops up and you just click on it. Èèèè 😁

Honestly I don’t think anywhere else is into it, I am UK but work a lot in Ireland and the death thing is the only big difference. It’s an obsession.

Shifting

My friend is Indian and uses the word shifting to mean moving house. Makes me snigger

We had a death in the family earlier this month and the few for RIP was €50 (a bargain compared to the Irish Times and the Indo which were €300+ each).

I just had a quick look at RIP for a random day last week and a quick count shows they had 150 noticed posted that day. 150 x €50 = €7,500/day or about €2.7m a year.

I’d imagine they charge the undertakers a license fee for access to the portal too.

Fair going.

I wonder if anyone remembers their parents or older folk using the term "Shifted" when someone was ill. My mother used to say "Mary was so sick she was shifted to hospital" This was in Dublin.

"Shifting" on the other hand is a more interesting word!

Kissing was also known as 'wearing' and a girl friend was a 'mot'.

Yes 'miner-dil'. Anyone old enough to remember French 'nugget ' as we called Nougat? Urney chocolates and Lemons sweets.

I never found the Sacred Heart scary ...just used to it I guess. We had a rather gloomy painting of Bernadette praying at the grotto.

Holy Wells and pattern days. The wells are sort of magical. Especially spring wells.

Q) "What did she die of ?"
A) "She died of a Tuesday."

Dub accent required.

And...

What did he die of?
Shortness of breath.

Beour

🤣🤣🤣

My school friend and i used to work in mcdonalds together, and we used to snigger like beavis and butthead when we were asked something like 'can you take an extra shift' or a long shift, or a night shift ho ho ho ho ho

Me sister had twins today.
'Oh what did she call them'?
The little girl is called Denise.
'And the boy'?
He is called Denephew.

Sister calling my mam to say she was in labour.
'Ma ma me waters have broken'
Oh love where are you ringin from?
From me fanny to me knees.

Oatfield Emeralds but only ever at Christmas.

The cure / rub for ailments
eg sprained ankle, heart fever

Lead for the mumps

Sending Dustin the puppet turkey to the Eurovision... and wondering why we haven't got anywhere in it since 😂
Prime example of Irish humour just not translating outside of Ireland.

???

In fairness they make an appearance at almost every funeral too

I was in a bar at the weekend in Connemara, asked for a Cidona and the boy behind the bar said he didn't have it but offered ginger ale instead, the man seated at the bar turned around to me and said how the hell would you sub ginger ale for Cidona, this wouldn't happen in another country they'd just mind their own business!

Notions

Does anybody outside Ireland have notions?

Its what irish travellers call a woman in cant.