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Marching season: Annual period of madness during the summer months in Northern Ireland when members of the unionist community celebrate their culture by marching with pipe bands and banners commemorating loyalist victories of days past. Many of their routes take them through Catholic Nationalist areas; needless to say, the locals aren't exactly pleased to see them. Cue protests, riots, stand-offs with the police, petrol bombings, and clogged airwaves as rabid spokesmen from both traditions try to justify the anarchy perpetrated by their followers while condemning the (identical) anarchy perpetrated by the other side, while representatives of the British and Irish governments stand around looking pained.
Meath: A large county north-west of Dublin, Meath was originally a province in its own right. The old capital of Ireland, Teamhair (Tara) is located in Meath, though there's not much left of it these days. These days, Meath is mostly known (and cursed) for its frighteningly psychopathic Gaelic football team.
Mighty: Excellent, brilliant.
Mitching: Playing truant from school. Originally a word in mainstream English, it has dropped out of use outside Ireland.
FALSTAFF. Shall the blessed sun of heaven prove a micher [sic] and eat blackberries?
Henry IV, Part I, Act II, Sc. IV
MOPE: Acronym. Most Oppressed People Ever. Expression coined to describe (and make fun of) the mindset of a lot of Irish people, particularly Republican fellow-travellers, whose whole outlook on life boils down to, "We were oppressed by the Brits for 800 years, so therefore we should be allowed to kneecap people/ blow shit up/ do whatever you just told me not to do".
Muck savage: see culchie.
Mulchie: Individual who hails from a provincial town rather than the country proper; a a culchie with indoor plumbing and a better than even chance of not mating with a blood relative.