What do you consider a 'culchie' to be?

They are the salt of the earth, the back bone of our society, good honest people who like batch bread, custard creams, any brand of red lemonade, bottles of bubble up, any form of tayto (Skips, Monster Munch, King, Hunky Dory's etc all come under the term tayto, as well as the actual tayto tayto), egg and onion/ham/roast beef sandwiches, soda bread, porridge, local papers, steam rallies/field days/sports days, happily walking into a shop covered in muck, dinner at fcking dinner time(1:30pm), bacon and cabbage, parking in the middle of the road for a chat, whist drives, visiting neighbours, county finals, table quiz's, getting up early, getting wasted drunk on a Saturday night, driving home and still being at first mass in the morning, country and western music, tractors, Honda 50's, Volkswagen Jettas, large bottles of ale or stout off the shelf with a half pint glass, turnips, the Irish Catholic newspaper, gossip, Jeeps, ploughing matches, sheep shearing, building massive houses in the arsehole of nowhere, no closing times, the radio, the death notices on the radio, the farming weather on a Sunday, wellington or top boots, steel toecap boots, short sleeve shirts, wooly hats all year round, rich tea biscuits with butter on them, corned beef, apple tart, tea, Paddys whiskey and Carrolls cigarettes.

I love being a culchie.

Darkglasses wrote: »

People who eat their dinner in the middle of the day.

I think I'd like to start doing this, if someone cooked for me.
Would sort of solve the problem of lunch being sh1t.

People with country accents are culchies,it's not an insult though.It's like when culchies hear any Dublin accent and call someone a dub,nevermind if the accent is from Dalkey or Neilstown.They can't tell the difference between that,and city folk can't tell the difference between a Kilkenny accent or a Carlow accent.

starviewadams wrote: »

People with country accents are culchies,it's not an insult though.It's like when culchies hear any Dublin accent and call someone a dub,nevermind if the accent is from Dalkey or Neilstown.They can't tell the difference between that,and city folk can't tell the difference between a Kilkenny accent or a Carlow accent.

Yeah but Dalkey and Neilstown are at least in the same county.

For Dubs a culchie is anyone outside Dublin.
For people from outside Dublin it's simply people who live out in the back arse of nowhere

hiram wrote: »

bnt wrote: »

I've been living in Ireland for nearly 13 years now, and only heard "culchie" a couple of years ago. My first guess was that it was short for "cultured" i.e. making fun of Dubliners, but then I learned it means the opposite. ("Unculchie", anyone?)

It's hardly a uniquely Irish concept. In the USA they make jokes about West Virginia inbred hicks, England has its West Country types, people in Tokyo look down their noses at people from Hokkaido, and so on. In Germany, people from Swabia (SW Germany) get grief because they don't speak Hochdeutsch, but don't seem to care much (depending on who you talk to).

A. Culchie is ....someone who doesn't wear shiny tracksuits, doesn't stick earings and a tattoo on a two year old child, does not stab people at gigs, does not live with the constant drone of traffic in their ears, does not constantly say "do ya know wurra mean buddy", "bleedin.." or "howyez", does not know where the 42a goes to, does not care where the 42a goes to, does not think Kildare is "down the country", and does know that milk actually comes from a member of the bovine family, not Tesco or Spar... That's what a culchie is...

By that reasoning I am a culchie... Which is certainly a new one one me.

A culchie is anyone who lives more than than five miles from a dart line in Dublin.

Ahem

Anyone outside of Dublin is considered a culchie. Cork, Roscommon, Limerick, Leitrim, Monaghan..... yiz are all the same and all culchies.

As a Dub, I went down to a Feile na Gael in Clare as a teenager.....we were put up with a local family living in Shannon. I couldnt get over the young lad in the house, my own age, going on about all the Culchies who lived in some village down the road...

I was thinking WTF.....but you're a culchie too.....do ya not know that.

Irony being I grew up a few miles outside Swords, surrounded by fields, but never once for a second thought that I was a culchie. Didnt have a bogger accent anyway.