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The Culchie Festival started in 1989 in Clonbur, County Galway and ran until 2012. The festival took place in many towns and villages throughout Ireland in its search to find an exemplary culchie or "village character" – a local (perhaps even parochial) personality with the ability to entertain at will and excel at various stereotypically rural tasks.
This article lists a number of common generic forms in place names in the British Isles, their meanings and some examples of their use.The study of place names is called toponymy; for a more detailed examination of this subject in relation to British and Irish place names, refer to Toponymy in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
In modern Scotland and Northern Ireland the term is a derogatory reference to a Protestant, or a supporter of a historically Protestant football club, most notably Rangers F.C. [14] Mongol (or Mongoloid) An obsolete term for people with Down syndrome, which was originally medically classified as "Mongoloid Idiocy". [15]
The name 'Leitrim' itself is derived from the Irish Liath Druim, meaning 'grey ridge', and is a commonplace name throughout Ireland. Limerick: c. 1200 Munster: Luimneach Named after the city of Limerick, whose Irish name possibly means "bare spot".
Hiberno-English [a] or Irish English (IrE), [5] also formerly sometimes called Anglo-Irish, [6] is the set of dialects of English native to the island of Ireland. [7] In both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, English is the dominant first language in everyday use and, alongside the Irish language, one of two official languages (with Ulster Scots, in Northern Ireland, being yet ...
Taig in Northern Ireland and the west of Scotland is most commonly used as a derogatory term by loyalists to refer to Irish Catholics. Tadhg was once so common as an Irish name that it became synonymous with the typical person, with phrases like Tadhg an mhargaidh ("Tadhg of the market") akin to "the man on the Clapham omnibus" or "average Joe".
'Northern people' Northamptonshire: NH Ancient Old English: Norðhāmtūnescīr [1] Shire of Northampton. Northampton was originally 'Hāmtūn', and the county Hāmtūnescīr; the North was added later to distinguish them from Hampshire and Southampton. Hāmtūn means 'home farm' in OE. Northumberland: ND Ancient Old English: Norðhymbraland. [1]
Ulster English, [1] also called Northern Hiberno-English or Northern Irish English, is the variety of English spoken mostly around the Irish province of Ulster and throughout Northern Ireland. The dialect has been influenced by the local Ulster dialect of the Scots language , brought over by Scottish settlers during the Plantation of Ulster and ...