Culchies

Pantsless

Hi

Was just wondering was the term culchie offensive to anyone. Even if its used by a country person addressing themselves. Im asking because I seen this in a magazine .

Naked Lepper

i just call them boggers mainly

InFront

I'm interested in knowing what magazine it was?!

Steyr

Backhoe and Shovel weekly..........:p

Rb

They can't complain, Dublin says so.

Zonko

Culchies normally hate townies just as much, so I don't think so really. Although if you called a culchy so to their face as an insult, I don't think they're be pleased.

plonk

The only townies cluchies dont like are the same townies as everyone dislikes----scummers.

InFront

Once, at a birthday party in tipperary aged about ten, a big fight broke out between the culchies and the townies. This is no joke. The culchies were the boys from outside the village whose Dads were farmers, and the "townies" were the boys whose parents worked in the nearest towns, Nenagh or Limerick, or perhaps the village.
The culchie/ townie divide is something I will truly never understand. It even exists in the country!

tallaght01

I always find the term culchie confusing when i leave dublin. I mean, to me, basically anyone further out than say leixlip is a culchie. But when I'm down in, say, cork and I call someone a culchie, they sometimes reply in their big bogger accent "no, im not a culchie, im from the town".

Does anyone else agree that they're still culchies??

Smellyirishman

tallaght01 wrote:

Does anyone else agree that they're still culchies??

Of course.

connundrum

Pantsless wrote:

Im asking because I seen this in a magazine .

What does this even mean

If the term 'Culchie' does offend you then you must have very little else to be worried about tbh

InFront

It all comes from the inherent belief that someone who lives on a farm in the middle of the beautiful Irish countryside is a lesser person by virtue of that fact. I put it down to either envy or pointless line-drawing between people. Is it just an Irish thing? I've never heard of it anywhere else.

Miguel_Sanchez

Pantsless wrote:

Im asking because I seen this in a magazine .

I think you'll find it's "I saw this in a magazine" not "I seen this in a magazine".

Damn townies and their bad grammar.

purple'n'gold

This is slightly off topic, but I’m sure you will get my drift. This harks back to the days when the Irish were simply landless peasants. Everyone who lives outside a town and owns a couple of acres describes himself as a farmer. In some cases this is ludicrously funny. I remember being at a political meeting some years back and this pathetic individual with 10 children and 20 acres actually put himself on the same par as his “neighbour” who had 10 horses and 200 acres.

InFront

I'm not sure I understand why he was a 'pathetic individual'?

SimpleSam06

InFront wrote:

I'm not sure I understand why he was a 'pathetic individual'?

Indeed, it looks like he did quite a bit more riding than the horse farmer...

purple'n'gold

SimpleSam06 wrote:

Indeed, it looks like he did quite a bit more riding than the horse farmer...

naw, same amount of riding I would say, except he listened to the parish priest. The guy with the horses (the real farmer) did'nt. Hence, "pathetic individual "

Rb

purplengold wrote:

naw, same amount of riding I would say, except he listened to the parish priest. The guy with the horses (the real farmer) did'nt. Hence, "pathetic individual "

What are you on about?

D

No point in asking here, us culchies don't have the internet, not that we'd know what to do with it if we did.

Edit: Ger'of my land. Tey tuk ur jawbs!

faceman

D wrote:

No point in asking here, us culchies don't have the internet, not that we'd know what to do with it if we did.

Edit: Ger'of my land. Tey tuk ur jawbs!

At least if ye had the internet, ye mite stop robbin our women and jobs!

nesf

tallaght01 wrote:

I always find the term culchie confusing when i leave dublin. I mean, to me, basically anyone further out than say leixlip is a culchie. But when I'm down in, say, cork and I call someone a culchie, they sometimes reply in their big bogger accent "no, im not a culchie, im from the town".

Does anyone else agree that they're still culchies??

It's them vs us. A bunch of Cork lads and Dublin lads slag each other over being from Cork or Dublin. Then they are put into seperate rooms and the northsiders and southsiders in the respective rooms start slagging each other. And so on.

Rb

faceman wrote:

At least if ye had the internet, ye mite stop robbin our women and jobs!

Culchies?Robbing women?Lol.

walrusgumble

doc martins or boots that were in style 5 years ago, rolled up cheque shirts and the obligatory pack of john player blues or major, and rebel songs blaring out of their sh4tty pimped up cars lol.

purple'n'gold

walrusgumble wrote:

doc martins or boots that were in style 5 years ago, rolled up cheque shirts and the obligatory pack of john player blues or major, and rebel songs blaring out of their sh4tty pimped up cars lol.

And a love of the “music” and I use the word with extreme caution, of Big Tom and Brendan Shine. Shudder!!!!

FlutterinBantam

Pantsless wrote:

Hi

Was just wondering was the term culchie offensive to anyone. Even if its used by a country person addressing themselves. Im asking because I seen this in a magazine .

Not half as offensive as bad grammar tbh

FlutterinBantam

Sorry Jeff didn't see your post...well said.

biko

I only find culchie offensive when said by a jackeen
On the other hand I sometimes refer to rural Galwegians as boggers.

Goodshape

walrusgumble wrote:

doc martins or boots that were in style 5 years ago, rolled up cheque shirts and the obligatory pack of john player blues or major, and rebel songs blaring out of their sh4tty pimped up cars lol.

The above is what I'd call a culchie / bogger / redneck.

The Dublin thing of "anyone outside the pale" is just painting with too wide a brush to be honest. You can be from the 'countryside' these days without being a culchie.

walrusgumble

big tom... brendan shine ahhhhhhhhhhhhh.

i am from the midlands, so may i firstly apologise for the following people who have destroyed your granny's (anyone ever have to go to there grans on a sunday and put up with the following on radio/video, or be bored senseless at a wedding) the list is as follows;

brendan shine - athlone co. roscommon
mike flavin and declan neery - somewhere in lonford like newtownforbes
foster n allen - mount temple, moate, co westmeath
joe "the boy" dolan - mullingar, co westmeath
tr dallas - mount temple, moate, co westmeath
sharon turley, - athlone westmeath
seamus moore - kilitimagh co roscommon
loads more but i dread to even think about them, as it may give them much needed exposure.

so as i say we are sorry. i remember some donegal people use to appologise for danny o'donnell, well fair enough although a big monster but at least that is one person. we have 8. ahhhh

walrusgumble

Goodshape wrote:

The above is what I'd call a culchie / bogger / redneck.

The Dublin thing of "anyone outside the pale" is just painting with too wide a brush to be honest. You can be from the 'countryside' these days without being a culchie.

yep that is what a cultie/bogger/redneck is. i am sure they have new fades though, maybe found brycream or shockwaves and up graded from lynx though.

as regard to your second comment, fair enough that is true, but then again is there a good lot from the pale living in the country side now lol. but ye you are right.

Kintarō Hattori

I don't find it offensive at all as I'd much rather be a culchie than from Dublin.

randylonghorn

I'm a culchie and wouldn't have it any other way!

It's just a meaningless term used for slagging between country people and townies / Dubs ... no more than jackeen.

The very odd time I hear someone use it in a way which implies they think they mean something by it, I just feel sorry for their intelligence.

Ruu_Old

Culchie at heart here (but in yankeh land for super sekrit business so nicknamed "the yank" by my folks ¬.¬) and doesn't bother me.

gyppo

walrusgumble wrote:

seamus moore - kilitimagh co roscommon

Eh, I dont think so. try and have your geography facts correct next time you post some drivel

walrusgumble

kilitimagh is in mayo if my geography serves me correct, but isnt parts of it belonging to roscommon, like ballinadreen?

gyppo

walrusgumble wrote:

kilitimagh is in mayo if my geography serves me correct, but isnt parts of it belonging to roscommon, like ballinadreen?

:rolleyes: Is parts of the midlands belonging to cork?

And its Ballaghadereen, btw.

InFront

gippo there is a ballaghdereen and a kiltimagh in mayo/ roscommon.

Bloody culchies fighting over townlands.

walrusgumble

don't be a sensitive spanner all your life. the county boundaries can get a bit messed up like in roscommon-westmeath-galway (balinasloe hinterland). it was a fair question, a yes or know would have suffice.

either way i was being humours about the amount of rubbish musicans (and yes i do have a choice not to listen to them) that are from this region ie midlands-mid west region. the reason i brought it up cause another person mentioned one or two of these type of musicans, and i attempted to list what this region, where i am from by the way, has given to this country,

and for the record i do not have a hatred from th country folk, how can i as i am from the midlands, and my parents are from ros comain agus gaillimh. anyway its far game as ye can have a pop at the jackeens/palers. its just a bit of craic.

gyppo

InFront wrote:

gippo there is a ballaghdereen and a kiltimagh in mayo/ roscommon.

Bloody culchies fighting over townlands.

Jeez, another one:rolleyes:

Listen very carefully............

Kiltimagh is in Mayo - not Roscommon, not even close to Roscommon.

Ballaghadereen is in County Roscommon - just. Ballaghadereen's local authority is Roscommon County council.

Finally, Mayo and Roscommon are two Different counties. The same as Dublin and Donegal are two different counties. Comprende??

InFront

Agreed, some of them arfe truly terrible. Who's the guy who sings that song with all the kids... in the classroom, it's supposed to be offensive... he has curly hair...?

InFront

gyppo wrote:

Jeez, another one:rolleyes:

Listen very carefully............

Kiltimagh is in Mayo - not Roscommon.

Ballaghadereen is in County Roscommon - just. Ballaghadereen's local authority is Roscommon County council.

Finally, Mayo and Roscommon are two Different counties. The same as Dublin and Donegal are two different counties. Comprende??

Wow. Never disrespect county boundaries eh. I don't really care tbh. Relax.

walrusgumble

oh god the bain of my life when it came to culchie weddings, the wedding band (mullets and mouth carpets) play for the little kiddings

richie kavanagh from carlow. over the hills with my sheep dog over the hills .... shoot the $$$$.

right kilitimagh or however its spelt, my bad.

ah now in front tis tis.. you should know how important the auld county boundaries are, the gaa is religion here.feckers in balinadreen (whatever) stole our footballers, john o'maghony may have played for the primrose n blue.

ah sure we will feck off, to dublin we go, all the smut, and scum, why not. jesus that lap dancer aint bad, wonder she do much for €50, he he

lost_soul

Coincidently enough the term 'culchie' actually comes from Kiltimagh aka Coillte Mach!!

brianthebard

eo980 wrote:

I don't find it offensive at all as I'd much rather be a culchie than from Dublin.

Second that...

brianthebard

lost_soul wrote:

Coincidently enough the term 'culchie' actually comes from Kiltimagh aka Coillte Mach!!

It comes from coillte all right but not from a a specific town...I'm sure you will easily find other towns with an coillte etymological root...

lost_soul

brianthebard wrote:

It comes from coillte all right but not from a a specific town...I'm sure you will easily find other towns with an coillte etymological root...

Yes but its the town Kiltimagh where the term actually originates from.... Well actually people from Kiltimagh who went to work in Birmingham....

kevmy

lost_soul wrote:

Yes but its the town Kiltimagh where the term actually originates from.... Well actually people from Kiltimagh who went to work in Birmingham....

Incorrect the lot of ye. The term culchie comes from Dublin in the 1800's. People from the country and the poorer parts of the city were working for the rich Dubs. However because they "the help" they weren't allowed to come in through the front door and could only enter the house through the back door. Therefore they had to go round to the back of the house (cul an ti - as gaeilge). And so after a while were referred to as culchies. As all of the Dubs became richer and only the country folk were left doing these types of jobs the term culchie became associated only with people from the country.

And I'm a culchie/mucksavage/redneck in most defeinitons I suppose. Come from a farm in the Whest but I am offended with being lumped in with everybody outside the pale (whether as a culchie or not) Almost every Dubliner would be offended as being called all the same. I have no interest in C&W music, do not drive tractors for a living, do not own a check shirt or smoke any form of cigarettes. I have nothing in common with these people and don't want to. Yet I am a culchie.

And FFS Kiltimagh is in Mayo (nowhere near the border) and Ballaghdereen is in Roscommon (except that the football club plays in Mayo)

5starpool

Culchies ftw!!!

I just wish that posters, whether culchies or jackeens, would improve on things like spelling, punctuation, grammar etc. Some posts are insanely hard to read.

Speaking of Ballaghadereen though, it was a great place for fights outside the discos where they let anyone of any age into. Town on town carnage.

Tar.Aldarion

I am from the heart of the countryside.
Way better growing up there than in a city.
My grammar blossomed.

kevmy

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

I am from the heart of the countryside.
Way better growing up there than in a city.

Yeah the countryside is fantastic when you're young. Loads of fields for football, climbing trees, getting lost in forests, mud fights and heaps of unexplored places to go. Ahhhh those were the days.

challengemaster

grammar \o/


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