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Chanies

  • 22-08-2022 12:32pm
    #1
    Tcmouse
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    Looking for information about kids collecting "Chanies" in Dublin late 40s - 50s

    Post edited by Boards.ie: Niamh on


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    Spear
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    What are you on about? What connection does this have to boards.ie, if any?



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    Boards.ie: Niamh
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    @Tcmouse I've moved this question to the Dublin City forum where you might get some answers. I've asked my mam as she grew up in theh 50s in Dublin, she said that when they were kids they'd use broken pieces of delph as money when playing shop and she thinks they might have called them chanies but she's not sure. Do you have other info yourself?

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  • #4
    spurious
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    Chanies were broken bits of china.

    Joyce mentions them in :Ulysses":

    "Silly-Milly burying the little dead bird in the kitchen matchbox, a daisy-chain and bits of broken chanies on the grave".

    Also, Eilis Brady mentions them in "All In! All In!" (1975):

    '"Playing shop" is always great fun...chanies are used for money...'

    (Information from 'Slanguage - a dictionary of Irish slang' by Bernard Share)



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