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?

I will in my hole

I've often said to English people that the Irish look death straight in the eye. A previous poster said children aren't hushed away from it and you're right.
Having the departed in the home, all sitting around, laughing and crying and eating and drinking. "Doesn't she look well?". I remember going to an English funeral (WEEKS after they died) and wondering why they were 'doing it wrong'. Isn't it funny how we think our way is the right way (I mean, it is for the dead, of course).

"Yerra, we're sucking diesel now lads".

"Mayo for Sam this year?".

"Hoi boiiii!".

When my husband and I first met (he's English) he came to my house (in England) after a night out and my mum (Kerry) was there with other members of the Murphia having a drink around the kitchen table (Tipp, Mayo, Roscommon, a Dub, Leitrim and Sligo) and he actually whispered to me at one point "are they speaking Gaelic?".

I laughed so hard and told the women who all laughed at him!

The days are long, but the years are short.

LOVE THIS.

So many of these have made me laugh and have brought back so many childhood memories!

Feeding anyone who crosses the door.
Getting a clip around the ear for saying omg or Jesus Christ. Or tbf because they felt like it.
Lighting candles for everything from lost keys to health issues.
At specific times of the year we had statues from the church that we had to kneel in front of and say the rosary.
Throws holy water on us on the way out the door if we don’t bless ourselves.
Despite not drinking always having alcohol in ‘just in case’ someone comes to visit 🤣

I will yeah. Meaning I haven’t a bull’s notion of doing it.

He's a gobshite.

Wouldn't spend Christmas

Howaya

Me oul wan

Ger up de yard

I've never understood why the bit after a funeral in England is called the wake. Traditionally a wake is from a person dies until they are buried, it's called that because people would sit by the body to make sure the person was definitely dead and didn't wake up

That is a lovely memory getting sprinkled with holy water I remember a lot of people getting there house blessed and stations of the cross maybe yearly.

😂 Are they speaking gaelic?

In Ireland we have the best fry-up in the whole of the isles (UK and Ireland).

Picture of an Ulster fry (pretty sure its the same in the south):

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Full_Ulster_fry.jpg

Having a fry with no potato bread and/or soda farl, I would feel cheated. One fella writing for the BBC tried a fry in all the regions and said this wins hands down. Just dont get why potato bread in particular is not a fry staple across the water.

Here's a full English (looks naked without potato bread)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Full_English_breakfast.jpg

*that image is the Ulster fry (dont know why it only showed that image)

This is the full English (not a proper breakfast)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Full_English_breakfast.jpg

Ulster fry is the one with the farl, we don't do them down here - well I do cos DP is a Nordie but it is not the norm. Usually just rashers, sausages, black and white pudding, a fried egg, beans/tomatoes the odd time mushrooms and either rounds of toasted brennans or homemade brown bread.

Oh and you forgot the veggie roll that is made of beef with the ulster fry lol

Driving rurally.

One finger up from the steering wheel at every car you pass.

Two if it’s a neighbour.

Three (kept up) for a bestie.

Choc ices on a stick, way before the days of Magnums. They were superior to Magnums anyway.

My auntie sending me down the shop with a fiver when I was 10 to get her ciggies and 'hair lacquer'.

Never being able to have a cup of tea without something to eat.

Butter dish in the middle of the table with real Irish butter, there's nothing like it - and sticking our fingers in to eat it straight out of the dish.

Mashed up boiled egg in a cup with butter - still love that now.

My cousins type messages on Facebook etc phonetically. So instead of writing 'that's' they put 'dat's'.

I was eating choc ices on sticks in Northern England in the 90s! Ditto butter (though stucking your fingers in it is disgusting!), always on the table. Ditto getting sent to the shop!

Maybe because I'm from the more respectable Midlands 😂apart from the butter fingers. Never had choc ices on sticks where I live, but I'm talking late 70s/early 80s.

I can’t believe no one has mentioned the Rose of Tralee. It’s so uniquely Irish, it couldn’t happen anywhere else!

Back in the 1980's there was a competition (really there was) for Housewife of the Year.

Only in Ireland.

The best and tastiest 99s known to mankind. A million times tastier than anything I’ve eaten in England.

I'm sure I was eating choc ices and Cornettos in 1970s rural Ireland🤔
Or my favourite, Wibbly Wobbly Wonders.

Dunno about the 70s, but HB choc ices were definitely around in the 80s…can’t say I think they were superior to Magnums though.

Never heard of biscakes!

Cream soda at Christmas. We never had it at any other time of the year.

Was there cream soda in Ireland? I remember drinking it when visiting relatives in England. That and dandelion and burdock.

Club orange 🍊
butter on everything especially brack
compulsory tea drinking

I only make bacon and cabbage on st paddy’s day - an absolute overdose growing up