Petunia Rose

Something that I have found particularly amusing since I've moved to Ireland, and specifically Donegal, is the absurd use of language, vocabulary and phrases that these "wile ones" use on a daily bases. I thought it would be fun to include some of my favourites. Irish Slang Translation Aye Yes Some craic A lot of fun Wile Very/a lot of Ah sure, be grand It will be okay That’s gas That’s funny Some yoke that That’s a nice car What’s the craic? How’s it going/What’s up? Sound Good Shifting Passionately kissing Steaming Very drunk Wrote off Very drunk Not the full shilling Not very smart Paralytic Very drunk Aul doll (pronounced owl) Mother Savage Class/fantastic He’s a ride He is very good...

Gillespie, Á. (2018). Petunia Rose Profile Picture [personal drawing]. Accessed 15th October 2018. Hello folks, My name is Petunia Rose and this is my personal blog. This blog is a place for me to express what my brain is processing and my opinions on different topics. As a starting point, I would like to say that anything I write in this blog it completely my own opinion/theory/feeling and I want to emphasize that it is a personal blog. It would be rude for me not to introduce myself first. I am Petunia Annaleigh Rose and I have recently moved to a small town in County Donegal in Ireland. For the first eighteen years of my life, I lived in a small bungalow in Queens, Brooklyn and after my superhero of a father got a once-in-a-lifetime job offer in a software developing company in Donegal, we packed up our bags and flew across the Atlantic. I am currently nineteen years old and in September of this year, I enrolled in Letterkenny Institute of Technology (which is approxima...