FabSwingers.com forum: Quintessential Irish things?

By *heBlowins OP Couple
over a year ago

West Cork

My wife and I have been here for nearly a decade and we're still very much outsiders - much of Irish culture remains distanced from our experience, and it shows sometimes in conversation.

This might be a silly question, especially in the fragmented modern world, but what are some common bits about Irish culture I can learn about to better understand the people and the land we now call home?

I have books and Google of course but welcome any suggestions, frivolous or otherwise.. feel free to have a laugh if I'm being an eejit

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Potatoes

The craic

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By *TinyDelight-Woman
over a year ago

City Centre

Flat 7up cures every ailment known to man.

If you lose anything St Anthony's got you covered

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Op ....you're last sentence is quintessentially Irish so don't worry about it

Best advice

Watch every episode of Reeling in The Years

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By *heBlowins OP Couple
over a year ago

West Cork

"Op ....you're last sentence is quintessentially Irish so don't worry about it

Best advice

Watch every episode of Reeling in The Years

I'm learning!

Noted and thanks for the replies y'all

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Red lemonade!

And all crisps are called Tayto - even if they’re not Tayto!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Slaggin' - nobody does it quite like we do

Wakes - as above

GAA

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By *electableicecreamMan
over a year ago

The West

In my experience Irish people don't like to say no and can be polite to the point of pain.

Best ask at least 14 times to be sure

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By *heBlowins OP Couple
over a year ago

West Cork

"In my experience Irish people don't like to say no and can be polite to the point of pain.

Best ask at least 14 times to be sure"

Yes!! Definitely come across this

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By *heBlowins OP Couple
over a year ago

West Cork

"Slaggin' - nobody does it quite like we do

Wakes - as above

GAA

Wakes?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

An obsession with the weather

Ditto for "where are you from" and "I know someone from there"

Wanting to know everything about you under the guise of being friendly

You'll have a cup of tea sure

You're not drinking, you must be on antibiotics

Incredulity that you didn't watch the match yesterday

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Red lemonade!

And all crisps are called Tayto - even if they’re not Tayto!!"

I remember on a night out, not long after I'd moved to England, asking for a vodka & white. The barman says "a white what?"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"In my experience Irish people don't like to say no and can be polite to the point of pain.

Best ask at least 14 times to be sure"

I have a friend from NY who says she believed people initially when she said you should call around sometime and they readily agreed

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By *ushin realityCouple
over a year ago

swords

Learn how to make coddle

Start judging weddings, funerals on the last one you have been to and rate them

Check weather everyday most important for any chat of the day

Wave a everyone on the road

Good luck lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We always know someone who knows someone who's related to someone you know.

Just walking into someone else's house through the back door without knocking

Visiting unannounced

The ability to start telling one story and finish an hour later on a completely unrelated subject, having completely forgotten what the original story was about

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By *electableicecreamMan
over a year ago

The West

"Slaggin' - nobody does it quite like we do

Wakes - as above

GAA

Wakes? "

Nothing like a good session when a loved one passes away.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Say hello to everyone you meet when out walking

Turf

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By *rmrs1234Couple
over a year ago

Waterford

Every conversation on the phone ends with ok bye bye bye bye yep no bothet bye bye bye bye bye

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

OK bye. Bye, bye bye, bye, b-bye, bye, bye bye, bye now, bye bye, bye, see ya, bye, bye bye

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Say bye bye bye bye bye bye bye at the end of every phone conversation

Complain when The Brits ( always the Brits ) claim anyone Irish and famous as one of their own even though we claim feckin everyone thats remotely famous but from America

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Slaggin' - nobody does it quite like we do

Wakes - as above

GAA

Wakes?

Nothing like a good session when a loved one passes away."

Funerals on the third day.

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By *electableicecreamMan
over a year ago

The West

Walk straight in the back door of someone's house and don't bother knocking.

Totally grand

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Saying it's all grand thanks when the waitress asks then moaning about everything afterwards

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Getting stuck behind a tractor/sheep/cows on their way to the milking parlour

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Looking for the Irish bar when travelling abroad to experience different cultures

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By *rmrs1234Couple
over a year ago

Waterford

If you come to waterford and someone says well girl/boy theyre saying hello how are you hows the family well catch up soon, see you later. They dont actually want to get into conversation

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By *adger BrocMan
over a year ago

Co. Cork

After 800 years of invasion, plantation, oppression and persecution ours is a very open and welcoming culture.

People have always wanted to come to live in our beautiful country and we have always welcomed them with open arms...and sometimes with other types of arms.

We are well used to being emigrants ourselves as refugees fleeing famine and economic refugees fleeing poverty. Therefore we have a cultural understanding of what it is like to have to leave your birthplace and settle in a new country so we are always willing to accept immigrants as our people were accepted in other countries.

Learning our history will help you to better understand our culture and then hopefully you wont feel like an amadán.

Fáilte go hÉirinn.

Broc

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By *electableicecreamMan
over a year ago

The West

Park anywhere. Literally anywhere

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Being unable to finish a conversation directly, saying instead "well, I won't keep you" as if you're doing them a favour

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Park anywhere. Literally anywhere "

Irish people don't park, we abandon our cars

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By *ornywife20Couple
over a year ago

North Cork

Any excuse to go to pub

Someone is born pub

Someone dies pub

Someone's birthday pub

Win something pub

Loose something pub

Get engaged pub

Split up pub

Get married pub

Get divorced pub

Get a new job pub

Loose your job pub

Basically for any life event it is totally acceptable to go to pub for that reason.

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By *electableicecreamMan
over a year ago

The West

Learning our history will help you to better understand our culture and then hopefully you wont feel like an amadán.

Fáilte go hÉirinn.

Broc

Also learn the rich history and multiple languages of the Irish Traveling Community

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When you see loads of cars parked at a house & wondering who has died

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"When you see loads of cars parked at a house & wondering who has died"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Everyone has a cousin in the States and sure you must know them

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By *ingobrian70Man
over a year ago

tallaght

Coddle (or is that just a Dublin thing..??)

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By *electableicecreamMan
over a year ago

The West

Choose carefully whether you have Lyons of Barry's tea in the press.

You'll be judged if you buy anything else

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Calling cupboards "presses"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You can't leave the house without making sure the immersion hasn't been left on

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By *astelloWoman
over a year ago

Far far away

Getting the shift ..kissing

Religious ceremonies - albeit not as strong as previously they are a key aspect of Irish culture.

Irish language -Even a few words, not everyone understands but definitely a conversation starter.

Great advice on watching Reeling in the years and don't look back in anger on TV. Good summation of Ireland.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Don’t think they’d appreciate coddle in West Cork, Dublin thing alright. I love it - haven’t had it in years though. Think a few Dublin pubs have started selling it - Gravediggers, Clonsilla Inn

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By *electableicecreamMan
over a year ago

The West

A snug is a small room in a bar where women were not allowed.

Irish ladies drink 'a glass of beer'

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Flat 7up ...cures all ailments

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By *adger BrocMan
over a year ago

Co. Cork

"Choose carefully whether you have Lyons of Barry's tea in the press.

You'll be judged if you buy anything else"

Always a rebel....from Cork but drink Robert Robert's Extra Strong. Just one more thing to be judged on....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"A snug is a small room in a bar where women were not allowed.

Irish ladies drink 'a glass of beer'"

They also cannot possibly go up to the bar either. You have to give your money to a man and get him to go for you. "Noooooo! I'm not going up there!"

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

You have family that

Fought in The GPO

Have a bit of Nelsons Pillar

Saw U2 in The Dandelion market

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Choose carefully whether you have Lyons of Barry's tea in the press.

You'll be judged if you buy anything else

Always a rebel....from Cork but drink Robert Robert's Extra Strong. Just one more thing to be judged on....

Eh, tea is tea, what's wrong with Lidl own brand

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Irish people endlessly scrutinising and judging family and neighbours.

Excessive enmeshment in everyone else's business.

Minimise excessive drinking and the fall out from it.

Everyone must know their place and if they don't they get well and truly slapped down. Begrudgery is a national sport. Be prepared for the false poor mouth, execerised by financially comfortable people to try to stave off the Begrudgers.

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Once you get a nickname as a child you'll have it for life

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"You have family that

Fought in The GPO

Have a bit of Nelsons Pillar

Saw U2 in The Dandelion market

Or a family member who took the Queen's shilling but nobody mentions him now

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By *electableicecreamMan
over a year ago

The West

During the marrion years men were given the middle name Mary

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By *amsevenMan
over a year ago

cork

Answer a question by asking a question or 2 back.

Are you working tomorrow?

Why? What do you want me to do?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You have an auntie who "had to go to England"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Whatever you do, don't turn on the big light

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I will in me hole....means I won't

Sure why wouldn't I....means I will

Sure you never know....means I might but probably won't

I will sometime...usually means not a chance lol

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By *amsevenMan
over a year ago

cork

No 'O' or 'MAC' in your surname?

You had the soup

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By *amsevenMan
over a year ago

cork

I will=I will

I will yea= no I wont

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If you travel north of the border, asking someone what school they went to is a really loaded question

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Culchies are people from outside Dublin

Cork people think they live in the real capital for some reason

Galway people complain about traffic all the time and think they live in the arts capital of Ireland

Donegal people complain complain that they dont have any railway track

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By *electableicecreamMan
over a year ago

The West

Sound can be used as a response to anything said in the English language.

It someone is a 'bit of a character' they may very well have an alcohol problem.

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By *electableicecreamMan
over a year ago

The West

You'll never meet anyone from Leitrim unless you go there.

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By *he zephyrCouple
over a year ago

The Sol

Wandering across the road any ole where, despite there being pedestrian crossings within visible proximity

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Culchies are people from outside Dublin

Cork people think they live in the real capital for some reason

Galway people complain about traffic all the time and think they live in the arts capital of Ireland

Donegal people complain complain that they dont have any railway track

You forgot Jackeens are people from Dublin

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By *amsevenMan
over a year ago

cork

You can have a fight in a gaa match without ever throwing a punch. A schmozzle

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Wandering across the road any ole where, despite there being pedestrian crossings within visible proximity "

But sure I don't need to cross over there

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By *affa31Woman
over a year ago

Galway

All vacuums are hoovers unless you have a Dyson…people with dysons like to make sure people know they have a Dyson

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nobody eats corned beef and cabbage here, despite what you may have heard

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By *electableicecreamMan
over a year ago

The West

"Nobody eats corned beef and cabbage here, despite what you may have heard"

Corned beef goes in a sandwich with brown sauce.

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By *inkywife1981Couple
over a year ago

A town near you

Turn up the local radio when the death notice is played then go to house or funeral home even of people you didn't know!!

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Watch a few episodes of the following programs on youtube and you'll understand us a bit better

Wanderly wagon

The late late show but only with Gay Byrne

Father Ted

Derry Girls

Glenroe

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Well fcuk that for a game of soldiers....means not impressed and had enough

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Claim a Scottish or English football team as your favourite team but never go to a league of Ireland match

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By *amsevenMan
over a year ago

cork

The ploughing championships are the biggest outdoor event in ireland and you can go and never see a plough

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Watch The Quiet Man

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By *electableicecreamMan
over a year ago

The West

Watch

The War of the Buttons

My Left Foot

The Snapper

Love hate

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By *affa31Woman
over a year ago

Galway

People love a peruse of rip.ie to get a look at yer one who died

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By *heBlowins OP Couple
over a year ago

West Cork

I absolutely love this thread, thanks! Having an actual laugh out loud at some of these and some really good suggestions.. thanks so much y'all!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Staying up all night drinking with your man's corpse in the corner of the room

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

Any question can be answered accurately with "Ah sure look"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Pale refers to Dublin

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By *electableicecreamMan
over a year ago

The West

If someone invites you round for tea at 5pm it means your having dinner

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Yer wan" alludes to "that particular female"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Going to the Gaeltacht is a largely middle-class rite of passage where teenagers spend 3 weeks at Irish college in the Irish speaking parts of the country, while living in the homes of local people

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By *electableicecreamMan
over a year ago

The West

A 'weapon' is a woman who'd go through you for a short cut if you got on the wrong side of her.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Real country people eat their dinner in the middle of the day

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By *electableicecreamMan
over a year ago

The West

"Going to the Gaeltacht is a largely middle-class rite of passage where teenagers spend 3 weeks at Irish college in the Irish speaking parts of the country, while living in the homes of local people"

This is where you go to get your first shift and maybe a feel

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

"Real country people eat their dinner in the middle of the day"

"The plain people of Ireland"

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

You should always keep some hairy ned handy.

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By *oghunter33Woman
over a year ago

on the hill NordWest of

On the countryside it's all about the land, which is displayed as plain as possible: dormer bungalow set in a lawn which is cut religiously, no shrub or flower in sight.

Always come in/knock at the back door (still don't understand why but I'm doing it now too).

If you're offered a cup of tea, remember it's just a rhetorical offer.

Always offer a cup of tea to visitor/neighbours.

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By *ilthyNightsCouple
over a year ago

East / North, Cork

"Calling cupboards "presses""

This confused the shite out of me when I came here. Also hot press instead of airing cupboard.

Also "the shift" is Ireland only I think

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By *electableicecreamMan
over a year ago

The West

5 ish means 6pm

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

"Calling cupboards "presses"

This confused the shite out of me when I came here. Also hot press instead of airing cupboard.

Also "the shift" is Ireland only I think "

You need to put the messages in the press or you won't get the shift.

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By *ohng69Man
over a year ago

athenry

"Real country people eat their dinner in the middle of the day"
it's not dinner unless there's potatoes on the plate.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Calling cupboards "presses"

This confused the shite out of me when I came here. Also hot press instead of airing cupboard.

Also "the shift" is Ireland only I think

You need to put the messages in the press or you won't get the shift. "

Messages = groceries

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

"Real country people eat their dinner in the middle of the day it's not dinner unless there's potatoes on the plate."

Lunch = notions.

Brunch = fierce notions altogether

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By *electableicecreamMan
over a year ago

The West

If you have to open a press and look for the bowl sugar people will wonder about you

If you don't have a bowl of sugar at all your probable some kind of hippie.

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By *angtasticallyMan
over a year ago

Drogheda

Learn the culture and history just be yourselves were welcoming to other cultures each county really has there own culture but the one thing we have in common is were welcoming ppl..

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By *ilthyNightsCouple
over a year ago

East / North, Cork

"Learn the culture and history just be yourselves were welcoming to other cultures each county really has there own culture but the one thing we have in common is were welcoming ppl.."

I'd like to think that's true, but my experience is that people are a bit suspicious of other cultures here.

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By *astelloWoman
over a year ago

Far far away

"All vacuums are hoovers unless you have a Dyson…people with dysons like to make sure people know they have a Dyson

Lmao

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By *ilthyNightsCouple
over a year ago

East / North, Cork

And then there are those who have knock-off dysons who still call them dysons. Wannabe notions

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Learn the culture and history just be yourselves were welcoming to other cultures each county really has there own culture but the one thing we have in common is were welcoming ppl..

I'd like to think that's true, but my experience is that people are a bit suspicious of other cultures here."

I agree with you, it's an illusion the Irish have about how nice we are.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"And then there are those who have knock-off dysons who still call them dysons. Wannabe notions

Uh, the worst

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By *electableicecreamMan
over a year ago

The West

"Learn the culture and history just be yourselves were welcoming to other cultures each county really has there own culture but the one thing we have in common is were welcoming ppl.."

To their faces yes.

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By *ilthyNightsCouple
over a year ago

East / North, Cork

I think Ireland didn't really have the multicultural revolution that happened across the water. Until v recently Ireland was very much a net exporter of people rather than importers. Irish cultures spread elsewhere but they aren't used to dealing with it here. Things will change but it will take time and a willingness to adapt.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I think Ireland didn't really have the multicultural revolution that happened across the water. Until v recently Ireland was very much a net exporter of people rather than importers. Irish cultures spread elsewhere but they aren't used to dealing with it here. Things will change but it will take time and a willingness to adapt."

Very true, it only takes a small downturn in the country's fortunes for people to start looking for the outsider to blame.

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By *electableicecreamMan
over a year ago

The West

Going out for one or two means an all night bender.

A session is a night in the pub and it's also a group in a pub playing music. They get paid in alcohol.

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Bob Geldof is Irish

Bono is Irish

Conor Mcgregor is British

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Every town or city has a good area to live

People that live there always think they live in the good area

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Poitin is a magical drink that you can get from a friend of a friend of a friend

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By *ilthyNightsCouple
over a year ago

East / North, Cork

"Poitin is a magical drink that you can get from a friend of a friend of a friend "

Having only been here 15 years, we are only blowins so aren't trusted with the Poitin

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By *eralt80Man
over a year ago

cork

Irish goodbye- you’re at a social gathering and you get up and leave without saying a word.

Irish twins - siblings born within 12months of each other

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By *oodOmensfor2Couple
over a year ago

Ennis

"Walk straight in the back door of someone's house and don't bother knocking.

Totally grand"

Favourite thing of the local priests I believe

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I don't see it often now (but my younger sister does it) is when passing a church, ambulance, even an empty hearse, and blessing yourself

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By *electableicecreamMan
over a year ago

The West

"Poitin is a magical drink that you can get from a friend of a friend of a friend

Having only been here 15 years, we are only blowins so aren't trusted with the Poitin"

I'm from Limerick but because I'm not from Galway my 17yrs here count for nowt. Also I'm under 50 so too young for the inner circle

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

Shhh.. The death notices are on!

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By *affa31Woman
over a year ago

Galway

People are fiercely protective of where they’re from. They can bitch about the place but outsiders can’t. And god forbid you mistake them as being from the neighbouring village

Irish mammies threaten their children with the wooden spoon and most families have a story about a wooden spoon being broken over someone’s arse.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Bob Geldof is Irish

Bono is Irish

Conor Mcgregor is British

Really oh thank god

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

"Bob Geldof is Irish

Bono is Irish

Conor Mcgregor is British

Really oh thank god"

They can have the other two as well as far as I'm concerned.

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Someone can be the greatest cunt in the world

But once they die.....sure they were the greatest

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Bob Geldof is Irish

Bono is Irish

Conor Mcgregor is British

Really oh thank god

They can have the other two as well as far as I'm concerned. "

Jesus don’t they’ll try sending him back

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Bob Geldof is Irish

Bono is Irish

Conor Mcgregor is British

Really oh thank god

They can have the other two as well as far as I'm concerned.

Jesus don’t they’ll try sending him back "

We can give the other two too the Americans they love politics

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By *electableicecreamMan
over a year ago

The West

Anyone described as harmless is almost certainly unstable.

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

There's a few historical events that split whole families and they've never spoken since

( bit like lidl and Aldi )

One was the civil war

The other is simply called Saipan

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By *antra MassageMan
over a year ago

Dublin and midlands

The hot press might not be hot,

Cold water comes out of both hot and cold taps,

The front door is just for show, and maybe the postman,

The postman knows what's in your post,

Your neighbours know everything about you, especially if you're a blow in.

You're a blow in for several generations,

If you want any information, befriend the oldest woman in the community.. She knows where the skeletons are buried.

Always read planning notices, and rip, ie,

Be careful buying land as a foreigner.. There's 800 years of history just waiting to be dumped on you.

Become a swinger, your neighbours well presume you are one anyway, dont dissapoint them.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"There's a few historical events that split whole families and they've never spoken since

( bit like lidl and Aldi )

One was the civil war

The other is simply called Saipan "

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By *hocko87Man
over a year ago

dublin

Well I'm a taxi driver and picked up this French lady and she told me ireland and its people helped her to settle here cos they stop and talk and make you feel welcome . Where as in France they look after their selves

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Irish twins - siblings born within 12months of each other "

I'm one..10 mths 2 wks older than my brother..caused ructions for the 6 weeks we were twins each year

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By *ollypop9Woman
over a year ago

wouldn't you like to know

Your mother lighting a candle will help you pass your driving test, leaving cert and most other things...

Putting out the statue of the child of Prague the night before, means we are sure to get good weather the next day.

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By *electableicecreamMan
over a year ago

The West

"Your mother lighting a candle will help you pass your driving test, leaving cert and most other things...

Putting out the statue of the child of Prague the night before, means we are sure to get good weather the next day.

I'm impressed Lolly

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By *panishRebelMan
over a year ago

Alicante Spain, and Cork City Ireland

"Slaggin' - nobody does it quite like we do

Wakes - as above

GAA

Wakes? "

A wake is a party held for a dead person traditionaly before burial with the body present in the coffin.

Nowadays it's morphed mostly, into a soup sandwich tea and beer thing as afters at the local pub, with a section reserved for the afters of a funeral.

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By *adger BrocMan
over a year ago

Co. Cork

"Your mother lighting a candle will help you pass your driving test, leaving cert and most other things...

Putting out the statue of the child of Prague the night before, means we are sure to get good weather the next day.

Where was the f*cking Child of Prague in July and August. If I ever catch hold of it I'll knock its head off!

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By *he zephyrCouple
over a year ago

The Sol

"Your mother lighting a candle will help you pass your driving test, leaving cert and most other things...

Putting out the statue of the child of Prague the night before, means we are sure to get good weather the next day.

And people say St Anthony helps you find stuff.

Irish people can be cryptically vague, often saying things like yer man, your woman or yer wan (these people do not actually belong to you!)

Up the road and down the road is another one. The road may be flat.

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By *electableicecreamMan
over a year ago

The West

"Your mother lighting a candle will help you pass your driving test, leaving cert and most other things...

Putting out the statue of the child of Prague the night before, means we are sure to get good weather the next day.

And people say St Anthony helps you find stuff.

Irish people can be cryptically vague, often saying things like yer man, your woman or yer wan (these people do not actually belong to you!)

Up the road and down the road is another one. The road may be flat. "

You go over the road first and then down the road. If you pass the telephone pole you've gone too far.

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By *he zephyrCouple
over a year ago

The Sol

And places that are called after some shop that was there 60 years ago lol.

Like the sign may say Centra but locally it's still called Burke's or something!!

Oh I'm feeling so sorry for blowin's now lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I wouldn't take being an outsider personally. If you're born in one place here and move to another place, you'll always be an outsider, and that's with their own

Ask anyone and you'll see the county and town rivalries. Dublin/Cork, Killavullen/Kildorrery!

Just be yourselves. Diversity is better

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By *arrot_in_a_boxCouple
over a year ago

kinda dublin

When someone says "Only in Ireland..." its likely to be an extremely common thing that's found in every single culture in the world.

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By *amsevenMan
over a year ago

cork

You may meet people with names like Dan jim Dan or Connie Mike sean. So his name is Sean, his father was Mike and his grandfather was Connie. Its disappearing now tho

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"You may meet people with names like Dan jim Dan or Connie Mike sean. So his name is Sean, his father was Mike and his grandfather was Connie. Its disappearing now tho"

Ya we are more like you’re country folk now it’s shakira Beyoncé Rihanna come in for your dinner

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We have an over inflated sense of our own importance in the world.

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By *easingTimMan
over a year ago

Loughlinstown

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By *easingTimMan
over a year ago

Loughlinstown

- A mug of tae with a pig sandwich (a dying tradition)

- Knowing that you've been to Coppers doesn't mean you're in trouble with the law

- Saying "Sure he's only a bollox" as a term of endearment, affection and respect for a friend and fellow countryman

- Sarcasm (what we fully introduced to the world)

- To slag off your best friend

(as a test of the robustness of your relationship)

- The god given right to feel like royalty with the expectation of awe and admiration when you're abroad as you impress people with "I'M FROM IRELAND"

- Not being able to speak a word of Irish (10 years after secondary school) beyond "Conas a tá tú?" "uachtar reoite" and that old gem "An bhfuil cead agam dul go dtí an leithreas?"

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By *oo32Man
over a year ago

tipperary

Taytos

Porter

The harp

Everyone has an auntie Mary

Your mother nearly burned the house down lighting candles before the leaving

Having the ability to make a short story long

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By * la carteCouple
over a year ago

Dublin

Beware of the Banshee

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By *ollypop9Woman
over a year ago

wouldn't you like to know

Half the nation sitting down in front of their TV at the end of November, watching a Toy show.

Tayto Sandwich

Breakfast Roll

Stew

Boxty at Halloween

Kilnaskully is another program which gives great examples

And we definitely need to discuss that there was good drying out.

Delectable, still impressed ? Lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

As the credit card advertisment said "knowing what it means to be irish ... priceless!"

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By *hinbutlong1Man
over a year ago

Trim

Irish people judge a holiday the same way Scottish do ..Frankie Boyle said it best “How did you get on in Tenerife” “ €1.50 a pint”

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It will be 'grand' can ve a question or a statement depending in the inflection on the end either way it still means it's completely fucked.

I will yea = No fucking way in hell will I do that

You insult (slang off) only your good friends, if your not being slagged off by your mates they ain't your friends

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By *electableicecreamMan
over a year ago

The West

"Half the nation sitting down in front of their TV at the end of November, watching a Toy show.

Tayto Sandwich

Breakfast Roll

Stew

Boxty at Halloween

Kilnaskully is another program which gives great examples

And we definitely need to discuss that there was good drying out.

Delectable, still impressed ? Lol"

Oh there was great drying out today so there was. Long may it last.

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By *OCONO5Couple
over a year ago

Sensual Center

Father Ted

Garda Patrol

9 o'clock news

Bosco

Glenroe....

Pubs..holy hour ..even though you closed between 2 to 4

D*unk driving

Gaa

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By *om TangoMan
over a year ago

aughnacloy monaghan area

The word fuck has many meanings in Ireland

Will I fuck means I’m not doing that

Go ta fuck means go away from about me

Fuck that means that’s not good

Fuck me means that’s shocking

Fuck this means I hate this

What the fuck means what did u just say or do

The days are gone to fuck means we have less daylight hours.

We have spuds for breakfast and dinner. Spuds not potatoes. Crisp sandwiches with brown chef sauce is our favourite sandwich. We want people to do well for themselves but once the start doing well for themselves we want them to fail. There is no alcoholics in Ireland. Just a few that are fond of a drink. We’re not racist, we’re only joking about someone culture or skin colour.

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By *enguin1Man
over a year ago

The sticks

Don't ever forget to thank the bus driver when you're getting off the bus....... it will be noted and you'll be judged ??

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By *eijaWoman
over a year ago

City Centre

'Penney's best'

'oh I like your dress...Penney's €11'

B x

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By *heBlowins OP Couple
over a year ago

West Cork

Y'all ran away with this thread- love it! There's so much food advice and humor here, it's made my week, thanks everyone xx

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By *heBlowins OP Couple
over a year ago

West Cork

"Y'all ran away with this thread- love it! There's so much food advice and humor here, it's made my week, thanks everyone xx

Food advice?

Good* advice

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By *electableicecreamMan
over a year ago

The West

"'Penney's best'

'oh I like your dress...Penney's €11'

B x"

AND it has pockets

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By *electableicecreamMan
over a year ago

The West

If your friends with the priest and the local GAA president your pretty much outside the law.

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By *eehornyWoman
over a year ago

Mayo

Child of Prague put out the night before a wedding so it wont rain on the day

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By *erry12330Man
over a year ago

oranmore

tayto sandwiches wouldn’t get them anywhere else in the world

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By *acob12369Man
over a year ago

URPANTS

"Half the nation sitting down in front of their TV at the end of November, watching a Toy show.

Tayto Sandwich

Breakfast Roll

Stew

Boxty at Halloween

Kilnaskully is another program which gives great examples

And we definitely need to discuss that there was good drying out.

Delectable, still impressed ? Lol"

Boxty all year round

potatoes? It's spuds

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By *arrot_in_a_boxCouple
over a year ago

kinda dublin

If you want a full and comprehensive course in irish culture, watch Fr. Ted on the Channel 4 app. It pretty much tells you more about irish culture/humour/customs etc than anywhere else.

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By *ichael CoolMan
over a year ago

unknown

Watch the guard, quintessential irish right there.

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