Ten Expressions You Need to Understand When Talking to An Irish Person

When travelling to Ireland or meeting up with Irish people for the first time you may feel quite confident. They speak English after all don’t they? There should be no communication difficulties. True and yet not so true. They have taken the English language and made their own of it, injecting phrases and expressions that make it that little bit different, sometimes even giving it a sentence structure that has come from their own native language, Irish or Gaelic. To avoid confusion it may be wise to get to know the following most commonly used phrases and what they mean before…