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

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

Blatantly lying. As in there is no lighthouse in Buncrana.

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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: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Used in several different ways. 1. "Job" can be used to describe whether something was sorted out between individuals satifactorily ("job"), 2. whether a job was done well by someone("da job") 3. or whether something looked convincing or not ("da job").

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Just doing it.

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Have you any news for me?

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

someone who is a bit stupid

 

e.g. "he's not the full shilling that fella!"

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Parent Category: Munster

Created: 19 August 2019

St. Finbarrs hurling and football club

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

To give out to someone furiously.

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Diarrhea