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The best travel book
about Ireland since St. Brendan's voyage circa 530
A.D. |
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Who were the
Irish, who are they now, and who will they
become? Culture, landscape, history, economic
development, and the peculiar Irish way of
thought….all explained.
An update of the
classics, In Search of
Modern Ireland by Bryce
Webster and In Search of
Ireland by H.V. Morton. |
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By Laura Harrison
McBride |
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Ireland Explained |
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Now in Kindle!
Click
here to read more
about the book and its
author. |
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Throughout the Burren
are structures commonly called "wedge tombs." Any
number of them are visible in fields of rocks, the
wedges themselves being huge flat rocks set up lean-to
fashion, often in the middle of a wide expanse.
Berneens Wedge Tomb,
which was in my guidebook, caught my eye. "To visit
the wedge tomb at Berneens," it says, "stop just
before the first house on our right after
Cahermore."-- Ireland Explained |
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Text and photos
copyright Muffin Dog Press, 2020 |
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Words that will mark
you as a Yank
1. Flashlight.
Use torch. 2. Cake. Say gateau. 3. John, little girl's
room, powder room .Use loo,
tiolet, or the phrase "spend a penny." 4. Imbecile. Use
eejit. 5. Crap. Use shite. 6. Effing. Sure, it's
only a word, used everywhere by almost everyone, and
it's pronounced Fookin'. 7. Pig, as in male
chauvinist pig, politician, or other disgusting human
animal. Use shite
hawk, or if the person is
really bad, nine-fingered shite
hawk. 8. Nasty to describe a
dirty place. Use manky. 9. Drunk. Use fluthered. 10. Meaningless
chatter. Use blather. 11. Coffee with cream.
Say white coffee. (Conversely, coffee without cream is
black coffee.) 12. Gas for a car. Say
petrol. 13. Elevator. Say lift. 14. Check, in
restaurant. Say bill. 15. Appetizer. Say starter. 16. Food to go.
Say take-away food. 17. Fanny. Say butt.
(Fanny, in Ireland and England, means the other side
of a woman's backside, and is very impolite.) 18. TV. Say telly. 19. "Call me." Say "Ring me up." 20. A lot of fun.
Say good craic (pronounced crack.) |
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Ten essential phrases
in Irish English
1. I worked so hard, I
could eat the ass off a farmer through a tennis
racket. Meaning: I'm
very hungry.
2. I was killt
entirely. Meaning: I was
dead tired.
3. She has a face like
a pig eating piss off a nettle. Meaning: She's ugly, mean-looking.
4. That eejit looks
like a cow looking over a whitewashed wall.
Meaning: The idiot has a
vacant expression. |
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5. I might give him a
dig in the snot locker. Meaning: I might punch him in the nose.
6. Shut yer pie
hole! Meaning: Be
quiet, damn ya.
7. He was nothing but a
muck savage. Meaning: He
was an uncouth gentleman.
8. He's as tight as a
camel's arse in a sandstorm. Meaning: He's very stingy, or cheap.
9. She's up a pole.
Meaning: She's pregnant.
10. He wouldn't work to
warm himself. Meaning: He's
very lazy. |