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

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

To drink alot, usually meant as a comedy term.

 

"go on ye alcho ye!"

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Parent Category: Munster

Created: 19 August 2019

If buts,and`s and maybes.

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

To express ones shock or suprise

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

Blushing, often in sympathy with a friend's reddener - e.g. "I'm scarlet for you"

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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

To roughly describe someones age.

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

Nothing in a cavan drawl

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Coward

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

popular in the so-called "Triangle" area (that's Ballymoney, Coleraine, Portrush). used instead of "mate" e.g. "'bout ye sham" meaning "how are you mate?" Often claimed as an Ulster-Scots term. Ulster Scots is a "language" that has been spoken in Ireland for almost 10 whole years now.