You know you're really Irish when...

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...you tell the barman to put the change in the poor box.

WheelieBinThief When someone's jealous of how much money someone else has...

"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look who he gives it to"

D2 is the city centre south of the river.

You are told as a child you are 'bold' meaning naughty! My Dad is irish I am very very plastic.

St Lomans was a psychiatric hospital.

Being a member of the pioneers and the ICA.

'naughy girl' always sounds a bit saucy to me, I could never say it to a child!

We still say "nothing strange or startling?" When meeting someone. Or "no craic wi ye?"

aye, that's where I was thinking of, Ballsbridge, Sandymount etc? My eyes near popped out of my head the first time I wandered round there noseying at the tastefully decorated houses!

Still say a lot of these tbh.

Oh yes, the delph, kept on the dresser .

And praying to Holy God, never God/Jesus.

I don't know if it's an Irish thing, but my English husband had never heard of fried potatoes. When I asked if he wanted them, he said 'what, chips?'.

Don't even get me started on white pudding.

No that's D4.

D2 is in town, Grafton Street, Nassau Street etc.

or is that D4? Gah, I've confused myself now!

I'll give you a curtsey anyway, you must be dead posh...

gotcha now. I was right first time then.

Dusty or potato cakes with leftover boiled potatoes.

Convoluted genealogies ending with, "he was killed by a flying bucket" cause nary a raised eyebrow because it was a common hazard of working at the docks.

I bloody love potato cakes with a poached egg. Food of the Gods!

Anyone a bit partial to the gargle drink: Yer man'd drink off a scabby leg...

Lovely, eh?

The upside of the Irish education system being the 68 holy days that mean school is closed.

my friend from Limerick couldn't believe it when she came to live up north and went to buy sausages and the butcher asked 'beef or pork'?. She was , she insists no one in Limerick will believe her that you can buy sausages made of beef!

Yy to "common"

"These are respecable chillern"

I'd never heard of a beef sausage till I moved to the UK. Even now I eye them with deep suspicion. Seems unnatural.

... you dye your dog green for St Patricks.

Beef sausages are delicious. My great-granny used to have the entire extended family round every Saturday morning, all squashed into her two up two down, for a fry up. The children had beef sausages, the adults had frying steak. I've never had nicer sausages. So I haven't

There's beef sausages? Sounds grim

You're definitely Irish when you think the six weeks of summer holidays is actually quite short.

YY to holy days off school - people think it's hilarious when I tell them.

You know you're from Dublin when you avoid all shopping areas like the plague on December 8th

Mmm, yes Slainte With loads more herbs through them than you get in pork sausages. And a nicer texture, I think