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

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Some article, obstacle or other infernal source of consternation that causes you untold grief.

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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

Term added at random by some after an explanation or after a story.

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

To go away and not come back.

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

Bad form

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Parent Category: Munster

Created: 19 August 2019

Anyone who lives in the countryside and comes into ennis for a barrel of guinness at the weekend

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

Used when a person does something the wrong way around

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

End slice of a loaf

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Will ya be quiet