# C'mere 'till I tell ye! - Irishisms (or Hiberno-English)

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 17, 2021, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cmere-till-i-tell-ye-irishisms-or-hiberno-english/938107 "2021-03-17T17:48:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cmere-till-i-tell-ye-irishisms-or-hiberno-english/938107/1 "2021-03-17T17:48:52Z")

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Reading material:

> **[Irishisms: A beginner’s guide to ructions, dotes, yokes, fierce eejits and mé...](https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/irishisms-a-beginner-s-guide-to-ructions-dotes-yokes-fierce-eejits-and-me-feiners-1.4510731)**
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> This guide will help you not make a bags of Hiberno-English

[https://www.fluentin3months.com/irish-english/](https://www.fluentin3months.com/irish-english/)

> **[You know you're Irish if you use all 53 of these 'Irishisms'](https://entertainment.ie/trending/you-know-youre-irish-if-you-use-all-53-of-these-irishisms-333630/)**
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> For any newcomers to Ireland, there's a veritable glossary of terms with which they'll need to be equipped, especially if they want to blend in with the locals....

Let’s have the craic Dopers. Yer big eejits.

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**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cmere-till-i-tell-ye-irishisms-or-hiberno-english/938107/2 "2021-03-18T09:21:05Z")

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I didn’t wade through your ‘reading material’, but an Irish friend of mine says “It’s yourself, isn’t it?”

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**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cmere-till-i-tell-ye-irishisms-or-hiberno-english/938107/3 "2021-03-18T10:37:17Z")

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Sorry, maybe it was too much. What does “it’s yerself, isn’t it” mean?