Nickname?

Monkeybonkers

Does Donegal county have a nickname e.g. Kerry = The Kingdom, Meath = The Royal etc. I don't recall ever hearing one for ourselves. Anyone know if we have one?

Mint Sauce

i've only ever heard 'Tír Conaill' my self or 'The Tír Conaill men' in GAA terms

Domscard

Well, I've heard it called the Forgotten County a lot - and for very obvious reasons

muffler

You can have a choice of 5 nicknames according to Wikipedia

Domscard

muffler wrote: »

You can have a choice of 5 nicknames according to Wikipedia

I like The Hills, but definitely not The Herring Gutters :eek:

Harps

The forgotten county is about the only one Ive heard

Tír Connaill I wouldnt really call a nickname

Local-womanizer

The "screw the Lisbon" county! :pac:

muffler

Local-womanizer wrote: »

The "screw the Lisbon" county! :pac:

Sober now are we?

deman

IIRC Tír Chonaill is not the whole of Donegal. Doesn't Donegal consist of Tír Chonaill and Inishowen?

Local-womanizer

muffler wrote: »

Sober now are we?

I thought I was going mad

Sly mods are sly

djdeclan

deman wrote: »

IIRC Tír Chonaill is not the whole of Donegal. Doesn't Donegal consist of Tír Chonaill and Inishowen?

Spot on

fontanalis

Local-womanizer wrote: »

The "screw the Lisbon" county! :pac:

I think the proper term would be "we don't have a clue what it's about so we'll take it out on the people we voted in based on who our parents voted for and who we'll vote for again"

muffler

fontanalis wrote: »

I think the proper term would be "we don't have a clue what it's about so we'll take it out on the people we voted in based on who our parents voted for and who we'll vote for again"

Listen dude, go troll somewhere else.

Infraction given.

Monkeybonkers

When writing my address I always put Tír Chonaill instead of Dún na nGall. I much prefer the former. I also didn't realise that it only covered a certain part of the county.
With regard to the nicknames thing I think that the answer to my question is that we don't really have one. Those ones in Wikipedia seem more like made up ones just for the sake of having one, although a few of you seem to have heard of The Herring Gutters.
I quite like The Forgotten County myself. Kind of makes me feel independent of the rest of the country.

Pique

muffler wrote: »

Listen dude, go troll somewhere else.

Infraction given.

I think he was pretty accurate meself.

Anyway, b.o.t. I'd say The Herring Gutters is probably the most accurate, historically wise. Same as The Tribesmen, The Kingdom, The Royal County etc.

kiddums

I've always refered to it as the forgotten county due to the fact that south of Sligo most people have to ask what part of Ireland we're in. I never knew it was an actual nickname for the county.
Nor did I realise Tir Chonaill didn't refer to the whole county.
I'd never heard any of the other nicknames before.

killerbeg

I've come to refer to it as 'boardsieregionnorthwestdonegal' myself.

Madam

Well we were the unfortunate who had to emigrate so we still know it as 'Gods County' or 'Sunny Dunny':)

fontanalis

Madam wrote: »

Well we were the unfortunate who had to emigrate so we still know it as 'Gods County' or 'Sunny Dunny':)

I don't think emigration was that exclusive.

Domscard

fontanalis wrote: »

I don't think emigration was that exclusive.

You've lost me here - where was it suggested in that post that emigration was exclusive? And exclusive to what - or whom?

Madam

fontanalis wrote: »

I don't think emigration was that exclusive.

Eh? What ya on about

muffler

Domscard wrote: »

You've lost me here - where was it suggested in that post that emigration was exclusive? And exclusive to what - or whom?

Madam wrote: »

Eh? What ya on about

Ignore him. He's trolling which seems to be his favorite pastime.

Banned for a month.