~ The person that you insult most is probably your best friend
~ During your youth much of your food was boiled
~ You're strangely poetic after a few beers
~ You don't know the words but that doesn't stop you from singing
~ You can't wait for the other guy to stop talking so you can start talking
~ You have no idea how to make a long story short
~ Tea is the solution to every problem
~ And holy water is the solution to every injury
~ Saying 'I will yea' means that you definitely won't
~ 'For the craic' is the best reason for doing anything
~ Nobody can go a day without saying 'Jaysus'
~ You have a gift for swearing
~ You can insert the name of a gardening tool into any sentence and it still makes sense, e.g. 'I had a rake of drink last night' or "I'll be out in a minute, I'm just shoveling down the dinner'
Read more: Slainte and what the Irish words means
~ Its perfectly acceptable to call your mother 'mammy' even though you are a fully grown adult
~ Saying 'Now we're sucking diesel' means that you are happy with the outcome of the situation
~ Drinking 'tae' is everyone's favourite past time
~ You're scared of the wooden spoon
~ The word 'like' goes in every sentence
~ You can say "Any craic' to a policeman and you won't get arrested
Sources : The Door
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.seanomelb | Oct 03, 2012, 08:48 PM EDT
School curricula is the same for all students wounded brain
WoundedKnee | Oct 03, 2012, 03:21 AM EDT
billie: "our new Irish". How are they yours? Did you ask them? Maybe they don't want to be Irish? If I go work in Mexico do I become a Mexican? What a dumb claim on your part. But say, the title of the article is "You know you’re Irish if...". So how do "your" new Irish know they're Irish? Or how do the Irish know the "new" Irish are Irish? Let's think of a few criteria. I'll kick it off... You know you're "new" Irish if you are living in Ireland but are sending large parts of your income (work or welfare) back to another country.... Or how about --You know you're "new" Irish if you've been living in Ireland for a long time but have made absolutely no effort to learn anything of the country's history, language or culture. Help me out with some more, billie, after all you claim the "new" Irish are "yours". And when you've done that go back to the other thread where you were shown (not just be me) to be lying in your false claims about what the Irish (real ones, not "new" ones) call the dole Poles.
seanomelb | Oct 02, 2012, 07:09 PM EDT
Get back to the asylum woundedbrain.
seanomelb | Oct 02, 2012, 03:20 PM EDT
Holy water, huh... ours is whiskey, port or Guinness.
billie061 | Oct 02, 2012, 02:08 PM EDT
Woundedknee would ye ever get over yourself, and leave our new WELCOME Irish alone, thank God for them with the likes of you trolling around here.You know we Irish invented immigration.
WoundedKnee | Oct 02, 2012, 12:31 PM EDT
This article is so narrow and unfair. The author never mentions the NEW IRISH--all those Poles, Paks, Pohnpeians, Bosnians, Burundis, Borneans etc. who have settled Ireland. They're the wave of the future--as the Irish move out these folks are the NEW IRISH!
phinsman | Oct 02, 2012, 12:28 PM EDT
Having not grown up in Ireland... there are several of these that fit my personality: The person that you insult most is probably your best friend. You don't know the words, but that doesn't stop you from singing. You can't wait for the other guy to stop talking so you can start talking. You have no idea how to make a long story short. You have a gift for swearing. The word 'like' goes in every sentence.