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HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY TO ALL!!
 

Irish Curses: List

May the devil cut the head off you and make a day's work of your neck.
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May you be afflicted with an itch and have no nails to scratch with!
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May the devil swallow him sideways.
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May you die without a priest in a town with no clergy.
(Dying without the presence of a priest was considered not to be the best way to get into heaven.)
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Imeacht gan teacht ort.
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May you leave without returning.
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May your spuds be like rosary-beads on the stalk
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(May your potatoes be tiny)
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Go n-ithe an cat thú is go n-ithe an diabhal an cat.
May the cat eat you, and may the divil (devil) eat the cat.
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May you melt off the earth like snow off the ditch.
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May all the goats in Gorey chase you to hell.
(Gorey is a small town in County Wexford)
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Pissmires and spiders be in your marriage bed.
(Pissmires are ants)
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Curse of God on you.
(Another everyday Irish curse still quite commonly used when things not going your way.)
God damn your soul to hell.
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May you never have a hearth to call your own.
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May the divil take your last shilling!
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May the gates of paradise never open to you.
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That you may scratch a beggarman's back one day.
(May you lose everything you have.
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May there be guinea-fowl crying at your child's birth.
(Considered bad luck)
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May the lamb of God stir his hoof through the roof of heaven and kick you in the arse down to hell.
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Bad cess to you!
(Another common everyday Irish curse, cess being a slang word for luck.)
Curse of the seven snotty orphans on you.
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May you find the bees but miss the honey!
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The devil mend you!
(Another favorite Irish curse of my uncle's used for everyday frustrations)
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That you may be a load for four before the year is out.
(It usually required four people to carry a coffin, i.e you are wishing death on someone)
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May the curse of Mary Malone and her nine blind illegitimate children chase you so far over the Hills of Damnation that the Lord himself can't find you with a telescope.
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May you have a little skillet,
May you have little in it,
May you have to break it,
To find the little bit in it.
(A skillet is a smalling cooking pot with legs on it.)
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May you die without a priest in a town with no clergy.
(Dying without the presence of a priest was considered not to be the best way to get into heaven.)
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May you marry in haste and repent at leisure.
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May you have the runs on your wedding night.
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May you marry a wench that blows wind like a stone from a sling.
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The crows' curse on you.
(Crows were bad luck)
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Má ithis, nar chacair!
If you eat, that you may not shit!
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Go n-ithe an tochas thú!
May you be eaten by an awful itch!
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Briseadh agus brú ar do chnámha!
A breaking and crushing on your you bones!
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Go hifreann leat!
To hell with you!

Irish Curses

Snapshots In My Time...
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I normally hear about irish blessing, but they were famous for curses as well. Be careful with curses. They can come back to you.

Go n-ithe an cat thú is go n-ithe an diabhal an cat
May the cat eat you, and may the cat be eaten by the devil

Now this is a very interesting site: The Leprechaun Watch. A webcam that is trained on a fairy ring in Ireland. Interesting!

The Leprechaun Watch

The leprechaun Irish fairy watch camera is in a hidden location in a field overlooking a fairy ring in Tipperary, Ireland. In a dip in the Glen of Cloongallon, Ballyseanrath lies the fairy ring itself. It and its fairy inhabitants are shielded by trees ranged around the perimeter, mainly chestnut, with one magnificent oak over 600 years old. Over the years it provided leprechauns with acorns for their pipes and other Irish fairies with shelter. The tree is protected by an Irish fairy known as a skeaghshee or tree spirit. The camera is concealed in a cavity in its trunk, and a branch supports an antenna!

Blarney Castle

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