STOP YOUR SHENANIGANS
Colourful Irish Words for Everyday Use
Format:Paperback
Publisher:New Island Books
Published:27th Feb '26
Should be back in stock very soon
In Ireland, the art of conversation / crua-chaint is highly valued. We like to 'put a skin on a story' / craiceann a chur ar scéal because words are not just words to us. They are alive, carrying echoes of where they’ve been and taking us and the English language to new places.
Writer Micheál Ó Conghaile has chosen his favourite everyday Irish words and he shows you how to weave them into your own crua-chaint. Some will surprise you with their Irish origins – galore, hooligan and, of course, shenanigans. And some, such as amadán / fool, bacaidí / bockety, fústar / busy, grá / love and rírá / uproar, will take your Irish conversation to the next level.
His aim is simultaneously ambitious and practical: to preserve the rich, colourful heritage of Irish – which in turn, as he points out, enriches English as we speak it here – by encouraging and helping us to use words and phrases from the native tongue in daily chat, whatever language you’re speaking in.
-- Darragh McManus * Fun guide to our more colourful words proves why Irish is inarguably rich in ways to slag someone oISBN: 9781848408647
Dimensions: 149mm x 111mm x 11mm
Weight: 105g
144 pages