Maynooth City Slickers

dpp v mcgee

Do people from Maynooth not see themselves as culchies?

I was waiting at the bus stop yesterday and I couldn't help over hearing a discussion between a gang of local girls who were standing next to me. One of the girls referred to someone who was not there as a 'culchie'. I thought it quite bizarre.

It isn't the first time I've heard Maynooth locals using the term 'culchie' as though it doesn't apply to them. I was once referred to as a 'culchie' by a local on a night out in Mantra.

Is it just a local thing similar to some places in the US where black folk refer to each other with the N word?

Meepin

A lot of towns folk from places as far inland as Kildare town wouldn't regard themselves as culchies, even though they aren't from Dublin. They don't realise how a person from Dublin would use the word.

dpp v mcgee

My first impression of Maynooth when I got there was that I thought it was a village. I looked for a Subway on my first day there and I asked a lady on the street where I might find it. She said I would have to go to Liffey Valley and I laughed in her face and walked off. I come from a town in the country and even we have a Subway sandwich bar.

Towns need certain facilities such as cinemas and subways to even register on the radar. Without these facilities they are only villages and everyone knows villages are culchie cesspits.

Alt_Grrr

dpp v mcgee wrote: »

Do people from Maynooth not see themselves as culchies?

Well you have a lot of Jackeen blow-ins in Kildare. Its pretty obvious to us who moved here from the pale when they couldn't afford houses or heroin or whatever it is they were buying.
(For example people from outside Dublin wouldn't refer to Maynooth as a village, its a town)

People from outside Dublin don't refer to each other as culchies. We have manners and culture (not just the bacterial kind).

Thwip!

Right this thread is going nowhere good at the speed of light.