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Deadly: (adj.) Great, wonderful-- similar to English "wicked".
Drunk: Owing to the widespread belief amongst many Irish bores that inebriation is some form of shamanistic ritual or at least a valid exercise of their cultural imperative (see Oirish), the Irish have evolved a large vocabulary for describing the intoxicated state. Some of these include: flootered, gee-eyed, ossified, parlatic, plastered, rat- arsed, and many others too numerous to mention.
Dublin: The capital and largest city in Ireland. It is situated on the east coast of the island on the banks of the river Liffey. Dublin was the seat of government when the country was a colony of Britain. Even today, the rest of the country, despite a little thing called the War of Independence, still regards Dubliners as a gang of hoity-toity West Brit jackeens, especially those from Dublin 4. The Dubliners, for their part regard the inhabitants of the rest of the country as a shower of slope-browed culchies and cute whoors, interested only in drinking poteen, pulling strokes, and having carnal knowledge of livestock and close blood relatives.
The Liffey divides the city into Northside and Southside and Dubliners living on one side are likely to despise those on the other side nearly as much as they despise the muck savages from the rest of the country. Generally speaking, the Northside is less well-off than the Southside, as many of the large and dangerous working- class neighbourhoods are located there. It is small comfort to the Northsiders to note that, two hundred years ago, the boot was on the other foot; back then the Northside was the well-heeled end of town and all the knackers and scumbags lived on the Southside.
Dublin Castle: The stronghold of British power in Ireland for hundreds of years, and still standing strong, despite the best efforts of old patriots and modern property speculators to do away with it. In Georgian times, it was extensively remodelled, so it doesn't actually look much like a castle anymore. Home of the State Apartments where the Presidents of Ireland are inaugurated and visiting dignitaries are wined and dined.
In one of those ironies we Irish do so well, Dublin Castle is the headquarters of the Revenue, an organisation whose malign influence in the country most Irish people find at least as arbitrary, tyrannical and repugnant as that of our former oppressors.
Dublin 4: Area on the Dublin Southside that encompases the affluent suburbs of Donnybrook and Ballsbridge. The headquarters of RTÉ, the state television network, is located here too. Culchies, especially culchie politicians caught in the act of being cute whoors, look upon the residents of Dublin 4 as the ringleaders of the Irish liberal movement, a bunch of left-wing West Brit pseudo-intellectual gobshites dedicated to toppling the Island of Saints and Scholars into an abyss of filth and depravity.