Irish Slang

Irish Slang Phrases

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

Girl or girlfriend. Simply comes from the word for a 'young female horse

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

To get someone's attention.

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

Old-fashioned term for dating, could mean anything from holding hands to a sweaty shag in a haystack. Generally used by people who still call a radio a wireless.

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

To express ones shock or suprise

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

Asking de lad if he got de shift off urwan.

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

Free-stater

“Ya Free-stater"

Can be a derogatory term usually directed to people living in the republic of Ireland,Thereby refusing to accept the existence of the republic in the 26 counties of Ireland, Referring to the establishment of the Irish free-state.