You know you're really Irish when...

[Gossipyfishwife]

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

Running down the street parful (powerful) fast in your gutties (trainers) to get a poke (ice cream...always have heated discussion with Scottish OH who reckons that a poke refers to chips).

Loved Ice Cream Soda from the Maine mineral man who used to drive around

Wow, I'd totally forgotten about poppies!

We used to be given a plate of boiled poppies with a few knobs of butter on the side, and a rake of salt for dinner.

I seem to have become all English in my old age.

My Mum used to call SanPro "messages" as in, "do you need any messages?"

Did the word apply to all bits and bobs of shopping or just that? I've never found out.

Saying "thanks a million".

When you know what brown lemonade is!

Trainers are called runners, the 'thing'/'oojamaflip' is a yoke. People are 'your man' 'your woman' or mostly 'your one (wan)', people from the country are culchies and gypsies are 'knackers'. Also when you walk down the street you don't say 'hello' to someone, it's 'well'. When telling someone to go away you say 'get away t' fuck'

TheOnlyPink I love that "if you don't like it, you can turn your arse to it". Never heard it before but think I'll start using it now.

Also remember when ordering a burger/kebab etc and chips, chips were always referred to in the singular, I.e 'sausage and chip please'. Also hearing the national anthem played at the end of the night in a club, and when flying into Ireland people clapping when the plane lands

Or, smoked cod and a single

Columns are pronounced Colyums and Santa doesn't visit Cork, only a strange person called Santy

When a lullaby is based on a mother stabbing their child! Remember weelya, weelya, wileya anyone?

No-one watches a film

They all watch fillums

Wheeliebintheif -would love to have been there when you got on a tube train said 'hello' to a carriage full of strangers!

Oh yes Slainte, I remember that well. I remember children at school crying to that

My DH always tells me to stall the digger if I'm being impatient.
PIL always ask after "the mammy and the daddy" not my parents or mum and dad.
People really do say thanks a million to you, I loved that when I first came over.
Little boys don't have willies they have a mickey. So I thought these pyjamas were hilarious when I saw them in tesco

Being forced to go to Mass on the first Friday of each month before school because that would help me do better in exams

Living with the shame of knowing that some of your nearest and dearest are huge Garth Brooks fans.

You're born in March and your name is Patricia or Patrick.

Oh I love this thread! You can't say th. It's a t or a d.

Pokey hat,ice cream. The pokey man=ice cream seller. Auld biddie speak
Although I'll admit pokey man Does sound a bit sinister..
Poke o'chips,as in chip shop man asking dae ye want a poke Annika...she looked delighted

Boys born on the 26th December are always called Stephen.

You never understood a word when you were in church as a chikd ad it was all in Latin.

(So my mum tells me )

Squoosh . Huge garth fan here!

Loving this thread.

My contribution;

When your granny asks you if the baby just gets 'the run of the house' (had to ask my mum about that one!)

Worra I hate it when people say I'm crying laughing on mn..... but a little tear came out when I read about mick getting fecked over the wall. Thanks