# Ireland SSM referendum heats up

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-ssm-referendum-heats-up/720106>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [May 15, 2015, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-ssm-referendum-heats-up/720106 "2015-05-15T13:46:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-ssm-referendum-heats-up/720106/101 "2015-05-26T01:30:29Z")

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_Sláinte_!

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2015, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-ssm-referendum-heats-up/720106/102 "2015-05-27T00:17:35Z")

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Faith and Gomorrah!

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**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2015, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-ssm-referendum-heats-up/720106/103 "2015-05-27T02:38:57Z")

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> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> Faith and Gomorrah!

[_Angry Protester Chant Cadence_]  
Faith and Begorrah, NOT Faith and Gomorrah!  
Faith and Begorrah, NOT Faith and Gomorrah!  
[/_Angry Protester Chant Cadence_]

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**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2015, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-ssm-referendum-heats-up/720106/104 "2015-05-27T10:27:53Z")

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During the Divorce Referendum campaign in 1995 a no campaigner famously used the term “Wife-swapping Sodomites!”

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**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2015, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-ssm-referendum-heats-up/720106/105 "2015-05-27T11:52:49Z")

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Has anyone in the world, outside of a Hollywood depiction of an American of Irish descent, ever actually spoken the word begorrah? Much less uttered Faith and Begorrah?

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**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2015, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-ssm-referendum-heats-up/720106/106 "2015-05-27T12:02:13Z")

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> [@tomndebb](#):
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> Has anyone in the world, outside of a Hollywood depiction of an American of Irish descent, ever actually spoken the word begorrah? Much less uttered Faith and Begorrah?

I am not sure. Similar terms like begob, by dad, bejabers etc. are or were very common so it wouldn’t surprise me if it did at some point exist in the wild. [Thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=538143) I started a number of years ago on the term “top o’ the morning to you” touches on the topic.

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