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?

It's mad that the uk doesn't have a version of rip.ie

Definitely weather obsession, and phrases associated with it:

"There's heat in that sun"
"There's a grand breeze out"
"I don't mind warm rain"

Look it!

I think that's one only the Irish would get :)

Soft day.

I'm Scottish but lived in Ireland for a good few years. People would always say "that's so Irish" or "only in Ireland" to things that happened everywhere! The only things on this thread that I can say are 'only' Irish are rip.ie and the devotion to Padre Pio - I used to wonder who this guy on stickers on every other car was haha.

It might be funny to do a separate thread with Irish saying or expressions.

Also thanking the bus driver before you get off the bus. It’s the law!

Sorry but this is both insane and genius. How useful when you're old!

Always having something to eat with a cup of tea like a scone or piece of cake even bread and butter
My brother's girlfriend visited from England and offered to make us all a cuppa, my aunt was sat 15 minutes later with an untouched cup of tea and I asked if there was something wrong with the tea - no, she said she was waiting for something to eat with it

@twelveerasers thats gas 😂😂

I'm grand thanks.

And goodbyes! It takes about an hour to extract a visitor from the house!

Now don’t be forgetting

www.funeraltimes.com/

@Sylver75 I agree , my dad was listed on this !

Definitely the infant of Prague in the garden for the hot weather.

I was thinking the other day about the weather actually, and excuse my ramble now, I know the weather isn’t great here, but I believe it is a good thing.

I was thinking in California it’s warm all the time and everyone looks cool and gorgeous, and we get glimpses of that in Ireland in the summer, but often the rain is petting sideways and people walk differently in the rain, like at a slant, you can’t really be cool, you are getting soaked and look a bit in pain.

I was thinking about a colleague at work (who I didn’t know or like very much) and one day we were walking out of work and the heavens just opened, it lashed so hard on us we had to make a run for it. We were both soaked and laughing by the time we got to the gate and I liked him a lot more after that. It was like we shared an experience or something. Anyway that probably doesn’t make any sense but I was thinking that being out in bad weather together might actually be making us closer. We definitely talk a lot about it. Like what if it was just hot all the time, the conversation would run out very fast.

I also love Padre Pio : )

The child of Prague for the wedding weather.

Burying our dead in double quick time.

Nashes lemonade.

Everyone hushed to hear the singer. 💕

God, I miss home (Ciarrai).

That's common in Britain too.

My friend from London was here and could not believe it when a passenger asked the bus driver to let him off somewhere (that wasn’t a bus stop) and the bus driver did it no problem.
He could not stop laughing at this guy being left off at the side of the road half way in from Bunratty.
I didn’t think this was unusual at all but he definitely did.

If they're checking RIP.ie, clearly they're not doing very much 😵

You should put that on the 'Very British things' thread so.

I didn't know there was one, so.

Cat malojan or cat for short

Well boi or well girl - more of a Waterford thing than an Irish thing but it's how most blaas greet each other and amused me no end when I first visited Waterford.

Irish PIL (both moved to England in their teens) so these may be a bit diluted now. Some I thought were just MIL but they've now moved back to retire and we visit often and it's lovely too see everyone else doing the same!

The 15 X goodbyes in the phone
The 15x more when in person
Giving kids you barely know money (my kids love it!)
Santy Claus!
Biscakes (biscuits)
Kimberly biscakes
Spotting a car coming down the lane and dashing to put the kettle on and to make a platter of sandwiches and cakes. Served as standard even if the guest says no they've just eaten.
Turning up with a random bag of shopping, cakes, loaf of bread, some ham (basically to replace the platter you guest gives)
Loving a mass (or saying you do just to fit in)

We're off there for a month this summer and love the friendliness. And that within 5 mins of arriving in the county everyone seems to know!

Where in Ireland are your PIL from @Pigriver ? 39 years in Ireland and have never heard of a biscake.
Lots of these things are rural and older generations.
The “bye bye bye bye “ etc is still the norm.
Well boy / girl would be working class Waterford @honeyrider . Some other counties in Munster say “boy” also. Boi is common in Cork, but the “well” more a south east thing.