irish phrases?

Question

any good irish sayings or phrases in irish or english? please explain them if weird!

Answer 1

In Gaelic some of the 'old sayings' sound and are in fact, quite beautiful but when you translate them to English, they lose a lot of that. If you saw someone wearing a new suit or something similar you would say 'Go marig to a, agus go gohig to a' which means, suprisingly enough 'May you live to wear it'....

Just re-read the other answers: Slainte - means in fact Health.
('Is far an slainte na na tainte' - Health is better than wealth).
Feck is a loose swear word in Ireland but in fact means 'See'. When we would be learning Irish, we would have to go through the different forms: 'I see, you see, he sees, she sees, they see
we all see'. Which went: 'Feic im, Feic ir, Feicin se, Feicin she, Feic amid and instead of Feic ur - someone would always say 'Fu*cked her'. The teacher would go absolutely mad......

Answer 2

And the one every single Irish person knows from their school days:

An bhfuil cead agam dul amach go dti an leathras?

Rough pronounciation: On will kyad ah-gum dull amach guh dee on la-raas?

Or, 'may I go out to the toilet?'

(Also, may I add that having been Irish for a few decades now, I've never heard anyone except American tourists say "may the road rise with you", "may the devil find out your dead, half an hour after you've arrived in heaven", or "top of the morning")

Answer 3

The only thing I know is what they call the "Old Irish Blessing:"

May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back,
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
May the rain fall soft upon your fields,
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.

Answer 4

There is a great Cork expression "langer" which means errm..... pr1ck. Calling someone a langer is highly insulting.

I like: Go mbeire muid beo ar an am seo arís.
It means may we be alive at this time next year and is usually said on birthdays, christings and New Years.

and one I read this morning:
He's so camp, he shites tent pegs....

Answer 5

shes being passed around like snuff at a wake-
and printed on a St. Patrick's day plate I have - may you be in heaven a half an hour before the devil know you are dead

Answer 6

No one in Kerry says Hello or Hi,,,,,,,,,,,,,,they all say, How you keeping, I guess they don't want an answer as by the time you start to answer they have gone by you on the walkway.

Answer 7

HERE'S THE ONE THAT COUNTS: May the Devil find out you died 5 minutes after you've gone to heaven.

Answer 8

Feck Is an irish work, it sound really rude, but it's not....

Answer 9

get the fuc'k out of it
catch yerself on
aye dead on mate
fack away aff

all passing pleasantries in belfast

Answer 10

Last Time I saw legs like that.... they were hanging out of a nest!

.... to someone with no meat on their bones!