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  2. List of Irish words used in the English language - Wikipedia

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    gob – (literally beak) mouth. From Irish gob. (OED) grouse – In slang sense of grumble, perhaps from gramhas, meaning grin, grimace, ugly face. griskin – (from griscín) a lean cut of meat from the loin of a pig, a chop. hooligan – (from the Irish family name Ó hUallacháin, anglicised as Hooligan or Hoolihan).

  3. List of Irish county nicknames - Wikipedia

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    The Red Hand of Ulster on the county's GAA crest, also on the arms of the O'Neills [1] [2] Tyrone "Tyrone among the bushes" [2] Of unknown origin. Possibly popularised in a poem A Sigh for Old Times by Strabane poet William Collins who took part in the Fenian raids into Canada: "O God be with the good old times when I was twenty-one

  4. List of English words of Irish origin - Wikipedia

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    (from cailín meaning "young woman") a girl (usually referring to an Irish girl) (OED). corrie a cirque or mountain lake, of glacial origin. (OED) Irish or Scots Gaelic coire 'Cauldron, hollow' craic fun, used in Ireland for fun/enjoyment. The word is actually English in origin; it entered into Irish from the English "crack" via Ulster Scots.

  5. Erin go bragh - Wikipedia

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    Erin go Bragh is an anglicisation of the phrase Éirinn go Brách in the Irish language. [2] The standard version in Irish is Éire go Brách, which is pronounced [ˈeːɾʲə ɡə ˈbˠɾˠaːx]. Some uses of the phrase will use Éirinn, which survives as the dative form in the modern standard form of Irish and is the source of the poetic form ...

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    Crime writer Kyril Bonfiglioli wrote a dark short story called "The Gombeen Man" about just such a character in the late '70s.. This excerpt is from The Crock of Gold, by James Stephens: "... the women were true to their own doctrines and refused to part with information to any persons saving only those of high rank, such as policemen, gombeen men, and district and county councillors; but even ...

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  8. Glasgow smile - Wikipedia

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    Actor Tommy Flanagan has the scars of a Glasgow smile from having been attacked outside a bar in Glasgow. [1]A Glasgow smile (also known as a Chelsea grin/smile, or a Glasgow, Smiley, Huyton, A buck 50, or Cheshire grin) is a wound caused by making a cut from the corners of a victim's mouth up to the ears, leaving a scar in the shape of a smile.

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