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

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Parent Category: Munster

Created: 19 August 2019

Early 1990's to late 2000's, prominent in St.Flannan's college.

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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

The state of ye

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Mentally unsound

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

Pretending - e.g. "I was just letting on"

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

Term meaning that a job has been completed... short for "the job is oxo."

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

A Chase

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

Fat arms

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

I will gladly pay you Tuesday if you will contribute to the cost of my next alcoholic beverage [usually all of the cost of it, and then they sit down next to you, happy days!]