What do Irish people talk like?

Answer 1

Is í Gaeilge an chéad teanga oifigiúil in Éireann - Irish is the number one official language in Ireland. "turty tree million, turty tree tousand tree hundred ant turty tree pence, and a terd" = thirty three million, thirty three thousand three hundred and thirty three pence, and a third. :o) Sure you'll be grand.

Answer 2

English is spoken in Ireland because of a long history of English political domination of the island. English was seen in Ireland as the language of the oppressor but at the same time, quite necessary for upward social mobility. Monolingual Irish speakers had little opportunity for success in life. In fact, it got to the point where even knowing Irish at all could be socially stigmatizing, so parents began to speak to their children only in English, and the children never learned Irish. Today only a small percentage of Ireland's population is fluent in Irish. The Republic of Ireland has two official languages, English and Irish.

Answer 3

• Acting the Maggot - Fooling and messing around.
• An Lár - (Irish - 'On Larr') - City Centre (An Lar is written on the front of Dublin buses to confuse tourists!)
• Áras an Uachtaráin - (Irish - 'Arr Iss On Ook TarAwn') - Home of the President i.e. Located in the Phoenix Park in Dublin
• Bad dose - Severe illness
• Bags (To make a bags of something) - a botched job
• Bang on - Correct. Accurate
• Banjaxed - Broken
• Batch Bread - Thick bread, sometimes sliced already
• Biteen - Little bit
• Black Stuff - Guinness
• Bogball - Gaelic Football
• Bogtrotter - A person from the countryside
• Bowsie - A useless good for nothing usually a male
• Boyo - Male juvenile delinquent
• Bazzer -A haircut (Cork)
• Brutal - Terrible or awful
• Bucketing down - Raining
• Bulmers - Legendary Irish cider, called 'Magners' abroad
• Bunk Off - To skip school
• Chancer - Someone who'd try anything i.e. 'chance their arm'
• Chiseler - A child (Dublin slang)
• Ciotóg- A left handed preson (irish-Kithogue)
• Cod - To pull someone's leg
• College - University
• Craic - Fun; gossip i.e. "What's/How's the craic?" means "tell me your news/gossip"
• Crack on -Continue on
• Crocked - Broken
• Croker - Croke Park in Dublin (main GAA stadium)
• Culchie - A person from the countryside (i.e. outside Dublin) from agricultural
• Cute hoor - A sly person, someone who quietly engineers things to his own advantage.
• Dekko- Look at or inspect
• Delira and Excira - 'Delighted and Excited' (Dublin slang)
• Dub - A Dubliner. A 'True Blue Dub' is praise.
• Dubes - Short for Dubarry (A brand of shoe favoured by Rugger Buggers)
• Dublin 4 / D4 - A Dublin postcode, but usually refers to a posh person (even if they're from another Dublin postcode)
• Deadly - Fantastic, Wonderful
• Dense - stupid or thick
• Donkey's years - For a very very long time
• Dosser - Someone who is not working at their job
• Eat the head off - To give out to someone
• Eejit - Complete fool
• Earwiging- Listening in to a private conversation
• Effin' and blindin' - Swearing, cursing
• Eff off - polite swear word
• Fair play! - Well done
• Feck Off - Go away.
• Fella - A guy. Particularly as in 'Me Fella' or 'My boyfriend / husband / partner' (Dublin slang)
• Fierce - Very
• Fine thing - Good looking man or woman
• Floozie - Woman of dubious moral attributes
• Fluthered - Very drunk
• Fool eegit - Idiot (Cork slang)
• Fooster - fiddling about
• Football - Soccer
• GAA - Gaelic Athletics Association (Organisation responsible for Hurling and Gaelic Football). Sometimes referred to as 'Gah' instead of the G.A.A.
• Gaa - same as the GAA pronounced as as a single syllable GAH
• Gaff - Home. 'To have a free gaff' means you're home alone
• Gammy - crooked or funny looking; as in "he has a gammy leg"
• Gander - A quick glance
• Garrison Game - Football / soccer
• Gas - Funny or amusing
• Gawk - To stare rudely
• Gaybo Famous Irish T.V and Radio personality Gay Byrne
• Get Outta That Garden - affectionate phrase generally thrown into a conversation to encourage laughter, example: "ah would ya get outta that garden!"
• Give out - To have a go / chew someone out e.g. I gave out to him
• Glass (A Glass of ) a half pint Beer/Cider/Guinness
• Gobshite - Socially inept person and / or complete fool
• Gouger - aggressive male
• Guff - excuses and lies
• Gurrier - Hooligan
• Hames/Haymes- Complete mess e.g. to make a complete haymes of something
• Hardchaw - Tough Guy
• Harpic - as in "a pint of harpic", reference to Harp, a former brand of lager beer
• Hockeyed - Heavily defeated
• Holy Joe - Self righteous person
• Holy show - Disgrace
• How's she cutting? - 'Hi'
• Howya - 'Hi' or a person from a rough area of Dublin
• Hurl - To play hurling. A hurley stick. To vomit. Or to throw.
• Jackeen - A rural person's name for a Dubliner and it's not nice.
• Jacks - toilet
• Jo Maxi - Taxi
• Joy (The) - Mountjoy Prison in Dublin
• Kip - a dump. e.g.: "The hotel was a complete kip." Or to have a sleep.
• Knacker Drinking - To drink outside illegaly
• Knackered - Very tired or broken beyond repair
• Langer - A cork name for an unliked person (male)
• Langers- Very drunk
• Lash - To rain. e.g.: "It lashed out of the heavens the whole time." Also verb : 'give it a lash - to make an attempt at something or 'to go on the lash' - to out drinking
• Leg it - To run away quickly
• Locked - Very drunk
• Manky - Filthy dirty or disgusting
• Mi Daza (Cork) Means excellent, brilliant, fantastic. Pronounced (mee-dah-za)
• Mineral- a soft drink
• Mitch - To skip school
• Moran - A fool
• Mortified (or morto, e.g. I was morto!) - Highly embarrassed
• Mot - Girlfriend (Dublin slang)
• Murder - Very difficult. e.g.: "Trying to find a taxi was murder." Or else to really want to do something e.g. 'I could murder a pint.'
• Naggin - A small bottle of alcohol, particularly vodka
• Nip (in the) - nude
• Nixer - job done for cash to avoid tax
• Norn Iron - Northern Ireland
• Not the full shilling - not fully sane
• Now your sucking diesel You have solved or understand a problem
• On the tear - To go out drinking
• Ossified - Very drunk
• Oul Fella - Your Father (Dublin slang)
• Oul Dear / Oul Wan - Your Mother (Dublin slang)
• Oul Doll - Girlfriend (Pronounced: Owl-Doll)
• Paralytic - Very drunk
• Pictures - To go to the movies i.e. I went to the pictures last night
• Plain - Guinness, as in Flann O'Brien's "a pint of plain is your only man"
• Plastered - Very drunk
• Puss (To have a puss on you) - Sulky face
• Rugger Bugger - Person who's posh loud and likes Rugby (usually from Dublin)
• Rugger Hugger - Girl who's posh and goes out with rugby players (usually from Dublin). Can also be called a 'Rugger Bugger'.
• Savage - brilliant, great e.g I went to see a savage match yesterday
• Scarlet - To be very embarrassed e.g. 'I was scarlet'
• School - Primary or Secondary School / Elementary, Junior High or Senior High School
• Senior Cup - Major schools rugby trophy played for by schools mainly in Dublin.
• Shattered - Very tired
• Sheila - a pet name for a promiscuous girl.
• Shinner - Someone who supports Sinn Fein
• Shite - something that's bad quality, as in "the car was a pile of shite"
• Shower of savages - Ignorant group of people
• Slag - To make fun of someone in a nice way ,nb to be used as a verb, if not has the same meaning as elsewhere ie 'a common prostitute'.
• Sleeveen - Devious and sly person, usually referring to someone from outside Dublin
• Sliced Pan - Bread bought already cut into thinnish slices
• Sorry- means Sorry, also used instead of excuse me or pardon me. If you want to get to the bar say Sorry !
• Story? (What's the) - 'Hi'
• Suckin' diesel (Now you're) - Now you're talking. Now you're doing well
• Tánaiste - (Irish - 'Tawn Ish Teh') - Deputy Prime Minister
• Taoiseach - (Irish - 'Tee Shock') - Prime Minister
• Tayto - Legendary Irish brand of crisps (US 'chips')
• That's Arthur Guinness Talking - talking nonsense, when drunk
• The Pale - Anywhere inside the Dublin region
• Thick - Extremely stupid
• Throw shapes - To show off, sometimes aggressively
• Touched - Someone who hasn't their full mental capacities i.e. He's touched
• Town - City Centre or even the local town!
• Tricolour - Irish flag
• Trinners - Trinity College Dublin
• Uachtarán na hÉireann - (Irish - 'Ook Tar Awn Na Hair In') - President (Of Ireland)
• Waster - Someone who's completely useless i.e. 'Yer man's an awful waster altogether'
• Work away - Continue what you are doing
• Yoke - An object or thing i.e. 'That's a strange looking yoke, what is it?'
• Young Fella (male) or Young One (female) - Young man or Young woman (Dublin slang)
• Your Man (male) or Your Woman (female) - referring to someone you are talking about (not boy or girl friend/wife etc.)
• Your only man - Something that you can rely on e.g. If you're hungry, a burger's your only man (a burger will alleviate your hunger), see Plain above

Answer 4

People in Ireland communicate in the same way as anywhere. It is a modern country with all the standard ways of communicating. They use face to face communication, they use phones to call or text, they use e-mail, they send letters and so on.

Answer 5

There is no single answer to that. Like any country in the world, there are different accents in different parts of the country. People in different parts of Ireland use different words and phrases. There is no way to explain how people talk; you really have to hear them. You have to hear real Irish people speaking, not actors in a movie pretending to be Irish. You can hear real Irish speaking ideally by visiting Ireland, or talking to real Irish people or listening to Irish radio or watching Irish television. You can access radio stations from Ireland online. See the website below for the main broadcaster in Ireland.

Answer 6

The Northern Ireland accent is described as Ulster Scots.

Answer 7

They speak English and Gaelic. The Goidelc language was brought to Ireland in the 5-6 centuries AD.

Answer 8

English is spoken by more than 98% of the population of Northern Ireland.

Answer 9

Yes, mainly in the west of Ireland