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Fed-up Irish property developer names luxury housing estate 'kiss my ass' in Gaelic

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KENNETH HAYNES
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Irish Central.com
Published Friday, November 27, 2009, 2:36 PM
Updated Friday, November 27, 2009, 4:50 PM



An irate Irish propery developer has renamed his development "Pogue Mahone Court" — meaning 'Kiss my Ass Court" in Gaelic — after residents objected to a plan to demolish an Edwardian-era house on the site.

Kevin and Susan O'Gorman have denied they are getting back at residents by renaming the  development, which is in Cheltenham in England and where local residents had no idea what the new name meant.

The Gormans claim the name is the same as the ancestral village in Ireland they come from. However, there is no such name listed anywhere in Irish towns and villages.

The Pogues, the singing group led by Shane MacGowan, were the first to use Pogue Mahones as their name. Resident Caroline Donnelly told the local newspaper the Gloucestershire Echo: "We found out what it meant when my husband and I were on the Internet trying to find this village. We were shocked. We've managed to conduct our campaign in an adult way. But this is just completely rude."

Nigel McLoughlin, a linguistic expert at University of Gloucestershire, confirmed the naughty name .

"Pogue Muhone is a phonetic rendering of the Irish Gaelic phrase Pog mo thoin, which breaks down as Pog - imperative form of the Irish verb 'to kiss'," he told the Echo. "Mo, a possessive pronoun in the first person singular, and thoin is a mutated form of the noun 'toin' meaning 'a***'."

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Posted by jacersisityourself on Dec 13, 2009, 03:21 PM EST
Yeah, 'tis a good chuckle. What's the bets this estate's houses will be snapped up by Gays and Lesbians?
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Posted by TABRINME4U on Dec 05, 2009, 07:13 PM EST
I'm sorry, but I think it's funnier then hell! Ya gotta love the Irish! This is what the Irish is all about! Love Laughter, Humor! God then made man. The Italians for their beauty. The French for their cuisine. The Welsh for their voices. The Germans for their cars. And on and on until He looked at what He had created and said, "This is all very well, but no-one is having fun. I'll have to make an Irishman." God needed laughter in the world, so he made the Irish race, for they can meet life with a smile and turn a happy face. If wars were fought with words Ireland WOULD BE ruling the world!" I'm sorry, LOL!! I can't stop laughing!!! Eireann Go Brach...An Grá go sior gan chríoch..♥Go mbeanni Dia duit♥
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Posted by ladyjane on Dec 03, 2009, 08:52 PM EST
I love it. They should have kept the Irish spelling tho. That would have been the best.
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Posted by RthrBHistCorr on Nov 30, 2009, 10:51 AM EST
As much as I like Shane McGowan, I don't think he is the inventor of this phrase as this article implies. My question is what rock did these residents who never heard the phrase crawl out from? Typical English arrogance to not even question what a Gaelic Phrase meant, after trying to kill the language for years. Much better to follow the English Pattern to name streets after former Slave traders like (William) Penny Lane.
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Posted by irishathens on Nov 29, 2009, 09:18 AM EST
It's funny....I remember when Shane and the gang were first aired on UK radio (BBC no less)The majority laughed our heads off...one over the English..We never thought that Irish in England would saturate the beebs switchboard to tell them what it meant..We couldn't believe we were surrounded by narks!!!! What a lesson.
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Posted by Madeleine on Nov 29, 2009, 12:42 AM EST
I think its funny, sorry but I do. Shane MacGowan is in my friends list on my space and he explains in his website what that name means so I already knew, If I had seen it I would have known what it meant and would still be laughing. If its good enough for the Pogues its good enough for me.I think its very creative. The English have no sense of humor LOL.


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