Irish Slang

Irish Slang Phrases

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

Mentally unstable person, often used as a compliment to describe somebody who’s up for a laugh.

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

Ditto!

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

Pugalism to the point of unconsciosness

Details: Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases; Created: 19 August 2019

going up to bed to lie down fora wee minute

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

Little peaces

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...