nicknames

Irish realist dramas such as pure mule tend to have charismatic characters with nicknames. Yet, the nicknames are usually shit. I mean 'scobey', come on. They are often like the name of a crap character from an early Tommy Tiernan riff or recent Ardal O'Hanlon. You know the bit in the act where said comedian says to the audience "wait til I tell yis about the fella from navan, his name was 'shovel' and then we knew this traveler called 'black and decker'". I also notice that Dublin-based shows or plays have the same problem. Crap nicknames; Anto et al.

I'd like to alleviate this 'shovel/hatchets/anto' cliché in Irish drama and fiction. Here comes a roll call of Kells nicknames. Borrow at will, but give credit.



Lala Smith, Bee Baw Power, Bop Power, Flap Lynch, The U boat (went to school with me but is follically receding now), the Plank, Mono, Luscious Lynch, baldy barrett, bodice mitchell, the honey monster, bubble balfe, turkey hogan, johnny eyeballs, skinny O'Brien, forty arses, hulky smith, snialler, scrounger, fisher price, dots, mongo, the soggipins (i might have made up this one, they were rival twins who took up bodybuilding and appeared on ricky lake as Ireland's hottest twins in an international hot twin episode), piko, parrifin lamp, jellyhead, Braysheens, beano laing, little wart, big wart, forty year old man, scaldy reilly, tailor, donkey, ironside, wolf, spud, magic arse, pudsy, piko, gilly, ironside, the honeymonster, Ba Tum, smiley Kiely, jomps, jaffa, razor, Hollywood, bear, smelly benny, and so on and so forth