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

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Kid/child. A sort of name that people use for themselves, like "(insert name here) Kiiaadd!"

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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

It means that it is the same thing either way

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

Accent

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Parent Category: Munster

Created: 19 August 2019

Tribal chant ululated by school going individuals while their fellow pupils dig the head off one another.

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

This is to portray an exhibition of sheer embarrassment. I love this expression, when you think of somebody actually making a show. Funny.

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Leaped, jumped.

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Exceeding a reasonable speed

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

A typical Leitrim saying when someone on the other end picks up their telephone