Cork Airport posters featuring local slang words. Cork Airport posters with some vital information on how to use Cork slang! A series of billboards have popped up in the check-in area of Cork Airport ...
So just for fun we thought we'd ask a handful of Corkonians (Cork City to be exact) what their favourite Cork slang was. After a few minutes of extensive translating and plenty of banter, we were ...
While Nobel Prize winner Heaney's translation was sprinkled with numerous Hiberno-English terms throughout its lines (such as "bawn" and "bothie"), it may be said that the alliterative verse of the ...
It wasn’t for the glory of linguistics I wrote a novel peppered so generously with Cork slang; The Glorious Heresies is set in Cork and populated entirely by characters from Cork, so it would have ...
A transition-year student group hopes to tap into the global app market with a product that translates Cork slang into standard English. Its creators, a team of six Foróige members from Leap, west ...
THE success of novelty hit 'The Langer Song' has led to a renewed interest in Cork slang with two books on the subject being published this year. Folklorist and local historian Sean Beecher's 'A ...
Some might say the Cork slang is one of the most unique tongues in the country. So just for fun we thought we’d ask a handful of Corkonians (Cork City to be exact) what their favourite Cork slang was.