Irish Slang and Phrases | Part 4 

About 35 years ago I was in Ireland, staying in a hotel and was asked if I'd like to be knocked up in the morning. This was before cell phones and there were no clocks in the rooms, so they literally sent someone round in the morning to knock on the door to wake you up. I don't recall my exact reaponse but it was one of shock and awe - it was a nice hotel, after all! 😂

"I'm just after" is used for any situation. It's not reserved for just mistakes only. It's called the 'after-perfect' and is a prominent linguistic feature of hiberno-english. It's used to denote "i have just done x or y", (as british and americans would say). Its a loan from how we speak as Gaeilge, where we say "tá mé TAR ÉIS mo bhricfeasta a ithe" for example.. "i'm after eating my breakfast". It's one of those direct lifts from our mother tongue, in the same way it's not uncommon to hear an Irish person answer "I am" to being asked "are you going out tonight?" Or "I will" to "will you have a cup of tea?" - because in Irish, we don't have words for 'Yes' and 'No' so we just answer in the affirmative/negative of the verb in the question. How we speak English is way more heavily influenced by the Irish language than we realise!

Interesting that 3 generations back in the USA, people used the same set of "call in, call around" etc as still persists in Ireland. Like many expressions in lasted longer in rural areas.

Brilliant lol binge watching the rest of the series 💃🏽👑🇮🇪💖

Love your videos & I love the local slang. My mother was from Somerset - close to Wales. The first time I heard "I will come by in the morning & knock you up" I nearly died laughing. Folks from the Gaelic end of Canada say "Where you to?" when they are asking "Where are you?"

I love all your videos about Ireland anyway! But all your slang terms are spot on!

Yay! More slang

Brilliant!

I'm a Dubliner but am spending far too much time in the UK. This was such a lovely video and I can really relate to the following: - "Call". In the UK it only ever means by phone but I have used it for both meanings - "After". I literally use this all the time when talk about what I have done by mistake, so every mistake is acknowledged with "I am after..." - "Would you ever" is an interesting one. I think the UK equivalent would be: "Are you ever going to" - "Janey" is basically the same as "Jaysus" for people wanting to avoid saying "Jesus" - "Any use" is used all the time in Dublin. It is synonymous with "any good", they are both exactly the same Lindsey, I am a new subscriber but I absolutely love your videos and it does give me a lovely sense of home whilst I cannot be there. ♥

love the irish slang videos i always use the slang word craic when i am in the pub.

I’m a Brit but Dad’s side of the family is Irish. I didn’t realise how many of these Irish sayings actually made it into my day to day language

I love to learn Irish slang🇮🇪😄🇮🇪😄

Love your videos. I learned a lot. My family on dad's side are all from Belfast. I spent a lot of time with them growing up and, of course, picked up sayings I still use today, which is difficult because I now live in Canada and have to keep explaining myself LOL Some of the things I say are: "Catch yourself on", "Your head's away with the mixer" Who's your man/woman" "It's Boggin" and "he's chancing his arm" or is a "Chancer". Another phrase I have never been able to properly translate is "here dear". My aunts and father always said for example: "and here dear, she/he went and fell over" I haven't heard that explained anywhere.... must be a Belfast thing LOL.

Great job on Irish slang on part 4 on this video

Absolutely correct Paul. Please pay attention here folks.

I was a blow-in when I lived in the Midlands for a while in the Noughties, and a few phrases that I loved were: 'For the day that's in it' 'Made a haines of...' 'Went through him for a short cut'

i love the Dubliners❤😊

Thanks a million ❤ you are bleeding grand ❤❤❤❤❤

Having found your channel I've learnt more Irish in a couple of hours than I have in a lifetime of Irish grandparents in England. Where I was brought up in West Yorkshire the first council built housing was built for Irish folk working in the mills. I don't know if it's still there but there was a boozer called the Harp Of Erin on the corner. A mate of mine worked there briefly in the late 80s and the weapon of choice for dealing with wrong uns was a sock with a few pool balls in it. As for the breaking the stones weather thingy, we'd say it's cracking the flags, meaning it was so hot as to crack the flag stones on the pavement. I saw it happen once in 1976 and the tarmac melted outside my nan's house.

I’m glad you’re making videos again. I love your videos Yea especially these slang ones!

I like Irish fraces

Físeán iontach bean álainn😍♥️😍♥️😍 beannachtaí ó Mheicsiceo🇲🇽♥️🇮🇪

When I’d go to Ireland as a kid (from America) to visit family, I loved Father Ted!

You look like a sibling of Kat Wonders. A Canadian youtuber. Could be her sister. Great content btw, im joining an bit of an improv session as an Irish bloke and being a Canadian myself, i need all the help i can get!

Thanx for sharing! I like your accent so much. I think the Irish accent is one of the best, even if it won't allow me to understand many words (I'm not a native English speaker), it's puzzling to me and I like it ^__^ BTW Hollywood movies fake it wrong! haha =D

I love how you have your hands cozy in the sleeves, it's adorable.

I’m the first generation to be born outside of Ireland, but so many of these sayings are normal for me. Question… does anyone still say “it’s meself here” when calling someone on the phone? My granddaddy said it EVERY time he called 😆

Wolfe Mama don’t know if you have used this slang, but in Cork we say “Who’s your one?” Meaning who’s that fella or girl over there! Again, enjoy all your videos always look forward to them! 💚 from San Diego!

Can ypu do more like part 1 and 2 plz

I use “after” usually after a mistake of some kind. I’ve after leaving the keys in the car, I’ve after forgetting my wallet. Never heard snotted myself, but i would say “she fell on her snot”

Were these phrases used in the 19th century? I’m writing a series that has Irish characters and want to ensure I use and respect the terms correctly ❤

instead of calling someone a yahoo my mom would call them a 'right' yahoo!!! shes from dublin

Canada- would you not?!