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

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Parent Category: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

To run away

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

To be fired or discharged

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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: Connaught

Created: 19 August 2019

Disbeleif

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Parent Category: Ulster

Created: 19 August 2019

A lot

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Parent Category: Munster

Created: 19 August 2019

If someone cant drive down a street

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

In a state of drunken-ness

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Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases

Created: 19 August 2019

Irish Slang = Am foundered..!

(Derry / Londonderry)

English = I'm freezing..!

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Parent Category: Leinster

Created: 19 August 2019

No cause for concern