Jesus, Mary and Joseph! So dat’s where ye been hidin’ all dese years have ye Shamus? Get up now ye lazy bugger and get to church!
Me Uncle Thomas used to say “Jaaaayzus, Mary and Joooesph!” All the time (he was from County Mayo).
Now me Grammie, I was told, would smack her boys if they spoke w/a brogue—they were to speak proper to “get along in the world.”
Quite a departure from today’s hyphenated Americans.
And I have to add (because I can!) surein some in Sligo will have a good Wake for the lad...