You know you're really Irish when...

[Gossipyfishwife]

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

'I'll tell you a story about Johnny McGory (sp.) Will I begin it? That's all that's in it!'

My Granda used to say this to me all the time when I was little- not sure if it's an Irish thing, or just specific to my family though?

turn out the big light

alarm the clock

if it's for ye it'll not go by ye

you sometimes think 'Holy Mary Mother of God' when exasperated or shocked even during work situations

Some people are 'no Goat's toe'

You are sometimes 'raging'

"Are you well", as a greeting, not a request for information.

face on her like a lurgan spade

Johnny mc gory is universal

My local Tesco has a huge "Irish food" section. I'm not Irish but adore Tayto crisps so I always lurk around there tasted them in Dublin a fair while ago

hunger could include being so hungry you could 'eat the chin cloth off Moses'
or 'the knickers off a nun'

asking the ice cream man for a poke

I was scundered so I took a full reddener

Just love this thread, it's great so it is

^^ mouth like Ghandi flip flop....being hungover

I've never heard so many descriptives for hangovers as in Ireland... Hanging, head in a bag, buckled, having 'the fear' etc.
I've not read the full thread yet, but 'the jacks' for the loo, 'banjaxed' for broken, gobshite, getting the arse tanned off ya. The press or hot press...

And my favourite 'yoke' - so much better than 'thing'... Dat yoke over dere.

Also 'they lived in a terrible kip of a place, it was maggoty dirty so it was...'

Sigh - I miss Ireland so much. Especially the little old Dublin ladies I used to meet through my job. Best accents and sayings ever.

Well, the hangovers will be a natural consequence of the DrinkLink, Twinkle!

Jacks and Ban Jacks were the names on the toilet doors of a pub a friend went into recently gotta love it.

I overheard some Irish lothario in Dublin saying to his lady friend that he was going to 'ride the hole off ye, so I am'
...and who said romance was dead?!
We were very near to Coppers if anyone knows it!

I overheard some Irish lothario in Dublin saying to his lady friend that he was going to 'ride the hole off ye, so I am'
...and who said romance was dead?!
We were very near to Coppers if anyone knows it

Ain't love grand and coppers I know it well

I am hangin' mesel reading these.

Think I must be related to Wheeliebin

Everything is over home or back home
Wee skitter bag.
Aye, so it is.
Me da'.
Your woman/ your wan.
Everyone is biddy. Little ones are wee biddy.
Random 'F's in words... very = ferry.
National anthem in the Mem at the end of the night.
Tuck shops.
The 3 hr version of every story (involving tons of people you've never heard of but end up saying 'oh yeah' to, just to move it on from attempts to trigger off your memory of the neighbour's sister's mother's cousin's anty's milkman - when they are completely irrelevant to anything anyway!)

love this especially. No amount of 'aye, I mind ye sayin' will stop a story in its tracks though. You need to hear it a 53rd time

Get away we ya!

You have no idea how long/far this goes.

I'm English, I have never been to Ireland.

My parents are both English as are their parents, but then it gets a little bit murky.

My mother will also not admit to having any Irish blood (yes she is racist about other people)

But...........

I say things are grand
I think a meal is not complete without bread and butter
Have been accused of being bold, a hussy and having the devil in me

All said in broad Yorkshire accents

And

White candles in the window on Christmas Eve.

Seed cake, for if people didn't like Christmas/simnel/special occasion cake.

Maula/mala for plastacine, I'd forgotten that!

Mass cards, and the 'months mind'. I never hear of that in England (though perhaps it is only a rural thing even in Ireland?).

Sticking thermometers under your oxter.

Up to me Oxters = Busy

This thread is fascinating. A lot of the the phrases used are ones I use, or where I am from people use (S W Scotland).
Like
Turn out the big light
going for messages

as examples

We had no wee biddy, but we did have the biddy ogs

Anyone remember the 7 churches on Holy Thursday? Do they still do that?

Loving this thread

Haven't read the whole thread but I was in Ireland last Summer and they had a whole card section dedicated to "You know your Irish"
You always know a Mary
You still have your Communion/Confirmation money
After a night out you make a hangsandwich
As kids we always knew what my Mum and Dad meant when they said pass the Yoke. If you grew up in Kilburn area then there was always a good night at the Galty Moor. (God knows how we got in there at 14)

Oh God - the Galtymore! How did I forget that?!

And the Irish Festival at Roundwood park, full of small children in County flat caps - green and white for us.