Irish Slang

Irish Slang Phrases

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

That something is very good.

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

To stop being so lazy and do some work

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

In a bad way.

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

To 'go wrong' is to drink to excess.

Details: 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...