Quote Originally Posted by OC Richard View Post
Interesting!

An Irish guy I did a couple gigs with used the term "bog Irish" to mean rural peasant Irish, sort of the Irish equivalent of the US hillbilly.

Now I'm unsure which meaning of "bog" he had in mind!
He meant peat bog - an old mate of mine is from Mayo, his wife is from Dublin, when he went a little of tangent she would pull him up by jokingly say he was "such a bogger".