"Whose yer man?" "I'm single"

My ex boyfriend once told me "the first thing a young Irishman must learn in America is to never ask a police officer "how's the craic?'"

I'm from Dublin, living in Canada, and I can't stop laughing at how crazy this sounds when you explain it all so seriously 🤣 Great video!

I'm Scottish but have Irish father. I knew most of these sayings. I laughed as me and my siblings use them daily. Scottish by birth Irish by nature. Not a bad mixture in my opinion xx

So well done. As a French living in Ireland for the last 15 years, I had not realised how many of them I use. Must mean I am starting to be Irish now 🤣😂

Nice one. Fair play. Some typical modern Irish expressions you missed were: Bleedin’ deadly! 👍🏼 It’s Baltic out. 🥶 Gobshite! 🙄 Banjacksed. 🚫 Yer wan. 👩🏼 Get ourra dat garden! 🪴 (Stop messing!) Flootered. 🍺🤪 I’m absolutely hangin’. 🤢 Now! (Next) I will in me hoop. (That’s not going to happen under any circumstances). Keep up the good work. Maith an cailín! 👏🏼

From Scotland here and we use a lot of these too :) I had an Irish friend in Australia who always said ‘yer man’ or ‘yer one’ and I loved it!

Thank you. I am a 74 year old man of Irish heritage born and raised in Boston MA. So many of those terms were commonly used when I was growing up , that it was common speech. I really enjoyed your presentation. You speak very well and make it plain and simple, and yes, I’m a retired Cop/ Garda

It is pretty funny for me because I'm polish native and "Eejit" means - "are you going?" In polish 😁

I loved hearing people say class when I was in Ireland as well as Craig. The Irish accent is so beautiful!

Yer man is similar to 'my man' in London slang, which we borrowed from Jamaican patois. Even eejit sounds like eediat in patois. Given Jamaica's history with Ireland, the similarities make sense.

One thing that really stands out to me is the use of the word "like" as a hesitation or filler word. Americans use that word all the time like that, but it is usually at the beginning of a sentence: "like, what are you doing?" or the middle "what are you, like, doing?" - however, younger Irish folks put it at the end of the sentence "what are you doing, like?" I really like how that sounds. You can hear a ton of that type of usage in the show "Can't Cope, Won't Cope"

I'm Australian and many of these sayings are so in my vernacular. From my Father and general working class conversations. Donkey's years in particular.

Some of these words and phrases are also used in England with the same meaning like 'thick, 'gaff', 'kip', 'wrecked', 'in bits', 'donkey's years'.

Originally, 'feck' in Irish slang meant to 'steal' or 'pilfer'. James Joyce used it in this sense in 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man', when schoolboys discuss whether a group of fellow boys are in serious trouble for being out of bounds, drinking communion wine or 'fecking money' from a school fund. The similarity of the word to a well-known expletive probably caused its later change of meaning.

Ooh, these are wonderful! "Stop the lights" is gorgeous. And "Sure look...": where has this phrase been all my life?!?!

6:28. "Bleedin' deadly" means terrific, fantastic, wonderful.

Lived in Ireland a while ago and loved hearing all this stuff again!

'I will, yeah' is funny and must confuse a lot of people. We have a similar saying in Central Scotland, if someone tells you they did something and you respond with 'Did ye, aye?" it means you think they're lying to you!

I'm from Mexico but I'll be traveling soon to Ireland... I'm sure these will be very useful. Thank you for sharing

Thanks for posting, have some Irish heritage myself and neat to actually hear some of this. Oddly enough already use or understood a few of them

So interesting, thanks for sharing for all of us foreigners ☺️

Thanks! I grew up saying eejit, my family roots are from County Clare but we live in the US, family moved to Massachusetts and then across the country. I love getting some family history 🙈

Having lived in Co. Kerry for a number of years, I learnt all these words, which are used very frequently in Ireland. I love the Irish local slang and the beautiful accent. ☘☘☘☘☘☘

I'm addicted to your videos haha... love them! so many things I didn't know about Irish behaviour and cultural codes even though I have been living here for over seven years now and married to an Irish person. 😂🍀❤️

I need more of this..... nobody else makes video..... it's fun even listening to the pronunciation...... I love phrases and I love studying phrases

My great grandparents were Irish. We live on a family farm in the mountains of southwestern Virginia; and a lot of these phrases are used in my family and some even in our wee town. Never had a further thought about it. Cool video!

Being an American of Irish heritage (family "off the boat" as we say) its cool to hear slang we always said but didn't necessarily realize where it came from...its just how your family talks LOL.

LOVED this! 🙌

Gonna be visiting soon, so good to the slang!

I'm from Australia and we use or know a few of these , So Happy to be on some par with the Irish , what a craic , . Bless you All

Great video .I am here for 15 years ,and would love to learn and understand a bit of slang . Thnx for your help.

IJust found your Chanel and I'm already learning a lot. Thank you

We need more videos like this. I love languages practicability, especially being a teacher. I've loved your channel! Thank you for your sharing!

Nice one! This will be useful for me as I’ll be moving to Ireland very soon...Thank you for sharing😇

Always look forward to seeing your videos 😊❤️💕!!!!

Just found your channel, been using. Most of your slang all my life in Manchester UK

Very interesting and enlightening. A had an experience years ago when I was in Co. Donegal (I'm from the US). I was out with a group of people, and I asked one of the girls who lived on the outskirts of the village who was there if she'd "like a ride home", which I meant as a lift back to her home. I was informed that it has a different meaning in Ireland. So, I guess it helps to know one's slang beforehand!

I'm moving to Ireland soon so I need to practise all this slang. Thanks for the lesson :)

Coming from Cork I use Langer and Gopshitt a lot.

This content is helping me love and embrace the irish side of my ancestry ..

Hello beautiful! I love to watch your videos. I went to Ireland during the 80s & 90s and enjoyed myself immensely. As someone who lives in the Deep South (Alabama), I encountered a lot of situations like you are talking about, but I learned to go with the flow which was fun. BTW, I use deck a lot lol.

I realised I have so much to learn,thanks for ur presentation,tats really helpful

Thank you so much for this video. I learned something new.

I am so fascinated with this young lady and the way she explains language! I was born in 1958 but only just recently had my DNA tested and found out that the person I thought was my father wasn’t, and that I’m actually a good part Irish, LOL. I speak a number of different languages; I was originally born in California but have lived in Mexico for the last 42 years. There is a movie from about 1963 or so called Bye-Bye Birdie, and it’s musical. In the lines of one of the songs, it says “What’s the story, morning glory? What’s the word hummingbird?” So that is a term I have definitely been familiar with all my life. There are other ones as well, but most of these I have never heard and it is just thrilling to me to hear all of this. Call me easily entertained, ha ha! Very enjoyable videos!

This was delightful. Thanks!

These are great! Thank you for making this video :) I really should've watched this before my trip to Derry!

Tell me that you're from Ireland without telling you're from Ireland. "What's the craic?" "I was bleedin gargled last night. Now I am feckin grand." Thank you for this video. It is really informative, especially for someone who is planning to stay in Ireland.

Grand is my favorite. My Grandmother and her sisters always used this and I still do.

Hi Wolfe, I'm from Mauritius and relocated to Ireland on March 2020, thank you so so much for making this video, I've noted down everything and every tiny details you said. It's really helping me in my daily life and at work. Initially I was struggling to understand the people here and taking time to think and response but after watching carefully to this video, I'm finding it easy now to integrate into Irish culture, it's really really helping me alot. Thank you so much.

As an Irish American who doesn't know much about my heritage, I am loving your videos! This was especially fun learning some colorful colloquialisms. I can't wait to share it with my siblings!

@12.04 Ha ha ha ha! Love it. Neat video.

Useful slangs

I'm not Irish at all and I was surprised how many of those I picked up from different places because they just stand out in every conversation .... Loved the video

The very first one was the answer I needed! Thanks!

I live in southern Kentucky and we use these words constantly.

Thanks for the video..

So fun to listen to your Irish slangs. My entire family is Irish from Dublin so I grew up with many of these phrases so I did really have a good laugh! I love your accent which is something we no longer have except when we go home.... lol Thanks again and hope you are having a great weekend! : )

This is really helpful! Thanks!

You are so cool. The way you make such useful videos with small relevant details is very helpful for people moving in to Ireland and planning to settle here. Can you kindly do some more videos on clothing for the upcoming winters like what to wear if travelling and what to wear when inside and where can we buy those things. Like in a middle ground on affordability and quality

Great stuff👍

Love this type of training before my trip to Ireland :)))

My Family use a couple of use. We had past relatives that lived in County Cork. Apparently the family name is still Alive over there. I love all things Irish, even if im speaking to someone with an Irish accent i always lilt into the accent after a while of talking to them and I don't even realise. You never lose it do you. Love the videos.

Thank you from Canada!

Nice! 👍😄 Love it. 👑💚Cheers! 🍀

That video is class!

Greate! Enjoy It!

Shared this with some Italian colleagues as this is the best translation I've heard! In bits listening to it, we are mad! But that's why we conquered the world (by a Pub Invasion).

This is truly interesting.I took notes 👍🏼

Stop the lights was from a quiz show we all watched with Bunny Carr host in the 70s.

I could listen to this accent all day long

I love how she starts combining the phrases toward the end of the video. XD

I am German and I also loved the accent that I heared when I was in Dublin for a week.

'Stop the lights' I have never heard in my life living in Dublin, all the rest I knew.

I took my moms many ways of expressing these things for granted. Miss her saying them though. Thanks!

Super interesting to see how much slang is similar but different to British slang

That was bang on! 😁

Very interesting. I'm from Newfoundland and we use Irish slang. Some of these I haven't heard before though so it's nice to learn. Thank you for sharing 🙏

Love this! Really funny too to see similar phrases used where I'm from in England. Like 'bleedin' where I am we'd say 'bloody' like 'he was a bloody idiot' instead of 'he was a bleedin eejit'

Your channel is feckin great! I just learned that I work with a few feckin Eejits. 🤣🤣🤣

Great collection of the drunk-related words! Funny but in Russian slang these Irish phrases mean absolutely the same and we have over 100 slang words to describe "drunk" as well. Thanks for this video!

Fun fact: the F-word is VERY heavily censored on American broadcast television, but recently on the comedy series Son Of A Critch (which follows an Irish immigrant family in Newfoundland) they let a feck through without censoring it at all. American audiences, not realizing that the change in pronunciation makes it a significantly milder curse, did a lot of pearl clutching. It was hilarious. 😂

Interesting. I'm a born and raised Londoner and have used many (but not all) of these expressions all my life. I wonder whether they started off in Ireland and came across with Irish immigrants, or whether they went the other way. Language is fascinating!

As an australian some of these i didnt know at all but some of them we have slang thats not the same but similar enough that id catch on to what was being said without questioning it.

Great!

I am feckin impressed with this video.

I'm American but I'm gonna start using these saying cause theyre fun

This wan literally went to New York for a long weekend and came home with her new American accent!

As a Canadian with an Irish mother, it was confusing growing up and people not understanding what I was talking about lol.

Oh, and I forgot "yer one." The female version of "yer man."

Stop the fecking lights!!!!! I'm loving this lol. Hi from the North 😂😁❤️

Deadly video- I was laughing at the ridiculousness of some of these pheases. You also forgot deadly! I think you need a Part 2.

Great video

Plenty of these sayings made their way down under to Australia! Not many I haven't heard used around the traps here.

Great video really well done, thanks. My wife is a Londoner and when in Ireland, she found the word 'bold' unusual. For example, 'they're such a lovely family but the children are so bold....'. Meaning very naughty!

Girl, you really know how to dress for your cool summer coloring. Your shirt is the same color as your eyes. I just saw another video from when your hair was the same exact color as your eyes, too. It's all just perfect! 🤩👌

Thanks a lot for this video!!👏👏 Soon i will move to Galway and im sure this will be BLEEDIN useful hahahah 😁

Fair play to yeh, you have this down to tee 👍🏆🍀

lots of love from Wicklow

These are great! A few are familiar, but I have never heard a lot of them. Thanks for making me laugh. Going to share with my Celtic Gypsies group. 👍 Texas has its own slang, now I can mix it with that and really confuse others. 😂