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For Focal Sake: A 32 County Guide to Irish Slang

For Focal Sake: A 32 County Guide to Irish Slang


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"For Focal Sake" is the only book that celebrates 'all' of Ireland's slang on a county-by-county basis. This book was written by people from around the 32 counties of Ireland who gave a focal (or two) about their county, and as the title suggests was compiled for the sake of our words (focal being the Gaelic for word). So whether you're a BIFFO or a Blaa, a Langer or a Lilywhite, or anything else for that matter, and you have focal else to do then why not pick it up for an oul rayde. In October 2007 a competition was set up between the 32 counties of Ireland, in order to capture the various nuances of our mudder tongue. Within a matter of months there were literally thousands of entries added to it by people from all over d'Internet. The order of the counties in the book was determined by their placement on the leader-board on the 18th Feb 2008. Cork was the outright winner of the competition and as a result appears first in this book.Counties that appear earlier in this book have more entries, in proportion to the number of slang terms submitted over d'Internet. However, all counties are represented well.This book contains a general Irish slang section with a selection of choice words with 15 lessons on how we spake e. g. Lesson turteen: drunken focal Irish people have a huge variety of adjectives to describe the various stages of drunken intoxication.When they go on a 'session' the following words might describe the resultant state: blithero, blocked, blootered, blotto, bollock drunk, buckled, bunched, flamin', flootered, full as a bingo bus, gallybandered, gee-eyed, in bits, in da (divine) horrors, in de baloobas, in de mowldies, in ribbons, in the gizoolies, in the rats, langered, langers, locked (out of me tree), mahawng drunk, merry, mowldy, ossified, paralatic, pissed as a fart, plastered, polluted, rat-arsed, schteamed, scuttered, sloshed, steamboats, sozzled, stotious, twisted, wasted, well-oiled and wrote off etc. and that's just to get started! It also contains 32 chapters, one for each county, which includes a profile on the county detailing songs, nicknames, funny place names and a paragraph describing it. Following the profile is a selection of the slang submitted to slang, ie for each county (see below for examples).

Table of Contents:
On reading the book 6Introduction 7The Basics 10A Glossary of General Irish Slang 15The 32 County Guide 22Cork: The Rebels 23Mayo: The Westerners 30Sligo: Yeat's County 36Waterford: The Deise 42Tipperary: The Premier 48Dublin: Metropolitans 54Kilkenny: The Cats 60Offaly: The Faithful 65Wexford: Yellow-bellies 70Galway: The Tribesmen 75Cavan: The Breffni 80Donegal: Tir Conaill 84Carlow: Scallion Eaters 88Antrim: The Glens 92Limerick: Shannonsiders 96Longford: O'Farrell County 100Kerry: The Kingdom 103Meath: The Royals 106Armagh: The Orchard 109Louth: The Wee County 113Clare: The Banner 116Kildare: The Lilywhites 119Wicklow: The Garden 122Fermanagh: Ernesiders 125Laois: O' Moore County 128Monaghan: The Farney 131Leitrim: The Ridge 134Westmeath: Lake County 137Derry: Oak Leafs 140Down: The Fortress 143Roscommon: Sheepstealers 146Tyrone: The Red Hands 149About the Author 152

About the Author :
D'author of dis book is a yungfella called Cian Foley. Cian is a native of Waterford, Ireland and as such he enjoys stuffin' his face with blaas and loves to wash them down with a few layarge bohhels of Clonmel chardonnay of a Friday night. A Waterford Institute of Technology, B.Sc. in Applied Computing graduate, Cian has worked in the software industry for 10 years. He has a range of experience from working as a researcher in WIT's Telecommunications Software Systems Group, to working as a software engineer with commercial software companies locally and nationally. Cian decided to put his professional skills to good use (ahem!) and set up www.slang.ie so that our unique dialects are preserved for years to come (and also for the focal crack of course).Anyway, enough of de owl bull shyte. The author would like to tank you for buyin' de book and hopes dat you enjoyed it as much as the layarge bohhels he drank while puttin' it all tewgeddar. He also asks that you to consider logging on to www.slang.ie to submit important slang terms you may have thought of whilst reading the book For Focal Sake like!


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780955475528
  • Publisher: Upthedeise Enterprises
  • Publisher Imprint: Upthedeise Enterprises
  • Height: 180 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: A 32 County Guide to Irish Slang
  • Width: 110 mm
  • ISBN-10: 095547552X
  • Publisher Date: 10 May 2008
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Weight: 166 gr


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