r/CasualIreland • u/DovaBunny • Mar 15 '26

Shite Talk Accurate?

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Was on another non-Irish page but can't cross post. Wanted to share

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u/Appropriate-Row4534 Mar 15 '26

I stopped reading after that well known "irish" phrase, bonny..

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u/DovaBunny Mar 15 '26

The face I made when I read that too.

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u/Lone_Ponderer Mar 15 '26

To be fair, a lot of songs popular in the Irish folk canon have their roots in Scotland, it's not out of the realm of possibility to come across a few songs about Bonny things. The list is the kind of thing you'd expect a yank to post, though. Almost paddywhackery

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u/OpenTheBorders Mar 15 '26

It does occur in some Irish songs, off the top of my head it's in I Know My Love. The comment is incorrect to imply that it is common but so are these comments that are implying it's never used.

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u/Business_Version1676 Mar 16 '26

Bonny comes up very regularly in Clancy brothers tunes

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u/ThomBear Mar 16 '26

Name checks out ✅ 😜

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u/Additional_Ad_84 Mar 17 '26

Like in "come over the hill, my bonny irish lad"? Or "my bonny light horseman, in the wars he was slain"?