Irish Slang

County

Details: Parent Category: Leinster; Created: 19 August 2019

A brilliant or great thing.

Details: Parent Category: Leinster; Created: 19 August 2019

To be all over the place drunk.

Details: Parent Category: Ulster; Created: 19 August 2019

I'm almost finished with Robert Ludlum's novel THE ICARUS AGENDA, which has two slang phrases in it that have me scratching my head (a lot). "A two toilet Irish detective" is supposed to be American Boston-Irish slang, and I guess isn't too hard to figure out. I still wanna know!

Details: Parent Category: Munster; Created: 19 August 2019

Cranmore=the big tree=da realest estate in sligo

Details: Parent Category: Connaught; Created: 19 August 2019

Used in Erris to describe a fool or idiot.

Details: Parent Category: Leinster; Created: 19 August 2019

Male - can be a boy or a man.

Details: Parent Category: Connaught; Created: 19 August 2019

Used back in the mid/late nineties to describe an average looking person with whom one would consider sleeping if there was no attractive alternative.