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Down the country

biko · 2011-04-21 09:48:10

How come you go up to Dublin but down to the country? Even people further north of Dublin still go "up" there. This doesn't make sense as "up" usually refers to going north.

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21-04-2011 10:48am

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biko

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How come you go up to Dublin but down to the country?

Even people further north of Dublin still go "up" there. This doesn't make sense as "up" usually refers to going north.

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#2 21-04-2011 11:15am
Jay Pentatonic

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Yeah that's an odd one, don't really know why people do it.

My family and I live in Dublin, and my mam always says, "I'm going "down" to Galway"

shouldn't it be something like,
"down" to Cork,
"up" to Belfast,
"over" to Galway, and...I don't know..."back" to Dublin?

I guess it should all change if you're living somewhere else!

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#3 25-04-2011 12:11am
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It's only "up" on a map. I imagine people started saying "up" to the big city and "down" to the rural area before people realised that it didn't make as much sense on the map. It's also a reflection on the centralised nature of Ireland.

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