The almost extinct language of CelticIreland, historically persecuted against by the Brits. Attempts to revive the language have mostly failed but it is experiencing a resurgence in urban areas.
American tourist: An bhfuil cead agam dul go dtí an leithreas
Irish language speaker: Yanks never learn
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)