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?

Its what irish travellers call a woman in cant.

I still use it my kids find it silly when I say I just took a notion.

A girl in Cork City slang. A boy is a 'feen'.

Notions ...being stuck up. Then of course ' quare notions' . Like not drinking. Or being a vegetarian. Very quare now...

Its cant not just cork all travellers speak it man is a sham and lackeen is a girl older women are bueres.

The fact that inanimate objects can also have notions

Most Cork city ppl use beor and feen and sham. Never heard lackeen although I know it is a Traveller word - basically an anagram of cailín? A dictionary of Cant would be amazing

Ps bloke is a Traveller Cant word of course. Another repurposed Irish word : buachaill. Clever how they modify words.

I think there was a book published I grew up in Roscommon when I was younger settled people never used cant. I think now with travellers and settled people mixing and some marrying everyone knows it.

I don't think they do @Kara234. I've never heard any of those words.
I have a friend from Cork city and she'll say a word and I'll never have heard it before even though I have lived my entire life a 20 minute drive from the city. So there are a good few words used in Cork city that don't even extend to the county.

Waterford has it's own dictionary for blow ins like myself

"Well boy! I fired a chynie from me gallybander at de shellakybooky on dat yungwan’s blaa, but I feckin well missed an’ she et it anyhow, de feckin daw. I won’t be bummin de dogs end now boy, I’d say it tastes cat! She’ll have de scutters layter boy, I’n telling ye now!” Stop dawdlin' an buy de book to find out what de above paragraph means (unless yer from de Déise, in which case ye should buy it anyway 'cos das de why!"

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Deise-Dictionary-Waterford-Slang-Irish-ebook/dp/B07X9WZD7H

Put a bush in the gap - close the door

Is cant from caint, to talk?

I havent a clue it was just a word i heard it called from being a small child I never asked where the name came from. I don't even know how far back it goes I would like to know both my parents were travellers I remember my grandparents speaking it also.

Are oo from Kerry?
I am, are oo?
Would oo ate a shpud?
I would, would oo?
How'd you ate it?
Shkin an all!
Would it choke oo?
Not at all!

(I'm from Cork but have cousins in Kerry who say the same rhyme substituting Cork for Kerry).

Morry-ah meaning pretend
Raw-maysh meaning blather or talking nonsense
Gallivanting meaning travelling
Making a hames of something meaning doing a poor job

Club Milk bars
Miwadi Orange and how restaurants will give a jug of it for kids at a meal
Pints of milk with the dinner

Being elated if the weather is good at home when someone you know has paid good money to go abroad. Doubly elated if the weather abroad is shite. 🤣

It is from Caint - to talk. And ' cat' in @honeyrider s post is from Caite - used , worn out , worthless.
Ráiméis - literally drink talking
Mar dhath moryaaa - as if , like f*ck!

Why do Waterford ppl say Well for hello ?!!
And why did my mam say Wisha - deep sigh after - for no apparent reason!
Or yerra? 😂

Waterford Whispers.

"Why do Waterford ppl say Well for hello ?!!"

No idea why

They say well in Louth too.

Being elated if the weather is good at home when someone you know has paid good money to go abroad. Doubly elated if the weather abroad is shite. 🤣

I can corroborate this is 100 per cent accurate.

I wonder i the following expressions are Irish: "thingamagic" for anything,
"oh well", in every second or third sentence, maybe more Midlands?
"a grand stretch in the evenings" this is in February after the miserable dark winter.
"people from the country" this is how people in Dublin refer to people outside Dublin. As they are the only non-country people.

Would love if anyone can clarify. More than 20 years in Ireland but still not sure!

Down the country means anywhere not Dublin for sure. Grand stretch is v Irish. But I've heard thingumajig in England too.

Another odd thing Pantses for plural of parts- which are already a plural ?
And Ownded instead of owned.

Dubs are called Jackeens or gurriers
BIFFO - big ignorant f*cker from Offaly - think Brian Cowan
Conneens - people from Connemara whose only interests are dole, ceol agus hole
Deise or Blaas people from Waterford

I’ve just remembered baby bowls!

Every place we ate at when DC were small and we were visiting offered baby bowls (small bowls of mash/veg/gravy/ for the uninitiated) usually for free, I thought they were amazing

@honeyrider
You're a mine of information- never heard the Connemara one 😮