That's fascinating Thompson. We were brought up in the suburbs of London, so regarded my mother's Irish speech as very different from our 'Cockney' type of accent. Half of what she said was quite odd to us!
Another thing she often used was a word that sounded like 'Allerwan'. I think it may have meant 'I bet', as in "She'll be famished when she comes in, allerwan." Can anyone enlighten me about that?

She used a lot of daft expressions which made us giggle. "She smiled, that's all she said." "Get up and get down!" (to get us out of bed in the mornings), "I went so fast I met meself coming back!" and so on.

Agus is 'and' in Scots Gaelic too I believe.