Irish Slang

Irish Slang Phrases

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

Ballymaloe loving gaelic player. Very dry hands.

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

Period - from iron in blood

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

Everythings good

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

Encourage someone/something to do something

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

when your face is red/angry

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

A young pup, whelp

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...