Irish Slang - Funny Irish Phrases, Expressions, & Irish Spoken Language

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Parent Category: Munster

Created: 19 August 2019

Half past a hairy freckle.

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

An expression used when one suddenly realises the time and several jobs have still not been accomplished...

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

She's a skank

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

Happy Times

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Outrageous, horrid, terrible, something very bad

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Some that does things they are not suppose to used to describe a person a stupid person

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

A typically Northern Irish expression also spoken as "face as long as a Lurgan spade" meaning to look miserable or long faced. One theory about the origin of this expression is that a “Lurgan spade” was an under-paid workman digging what is now the Lurgan Park lake. Another theory is that it is a translation from the Irish language lorga spád meaning the shaft/shin of a spade. Upon observation you would say...

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

Plentiful resources.

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

Someone who hasn't a clue about anything