History UsefulNotes / IrishAccents

** Current ''Late Late Show'' presenter (2009-- ) Ryan Tubridy.

* A large portion of the cast in the BBC drama ''Series/TheFall'', which makes sense, as it's set in Belfast.

Unlike the impression given by both British and American media, there is more than one Irish accent. Researchers have found, in fact, that there's a different accent for roughly every five miles you travel - that's a slightly different accent for ''every single town on the island,'' though naturally, only locals will be able to hear the finer differences.

The dialect is properly known as '''Irish English''' or '''Hiberno-English.''' The English language has been firmly entrenched in Ireland since the mid-19th Century, but, as with UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} and UsefulNotes/{{Wales}}, Irish English retains some grammatical features from the Irish language[[note]]Like the ''continuous present'' - it's not unusual to hear someone say "He does be working every day"[[/note]], as well as a couple of archaic British oddities[[note]] Like the ''plural you'' surviving in everyday speech - In UsefulNotes/{{Dublin}} and parts of the North you hear "yis / youse / yisser", as in "How are yis, did you do yisser homework?", while in the South and West you get "ye", as in "How are ye? [all of you?]"[[/note]]. Irish English is also almost entirely rhotic, except for some Dublin accents. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee_N3g4ORLk For reference, here is a video showcasing the variety of Irish accents found in Ireland]].

The broad, working-class accent in Dublin. Most commonly seen or associated with those living in the city centre but can be found in all parts of the city, as far out as Tallaght or Finglas, for example. People with this accent are sometimes known as 'howyas' after the typical greeting. The 'oo' sound in words like 'book' and 'cook' is elongated, pronounced anywhere from like the 'oo' in 'moose' to the 'yew' in 'puke' (coming out like "bewk" or "buke" respectively). The vowels in words are stretched; words such as 'school', 'mean' and 'five' tend to be pronounced as 'schoo-wul' and 'me-yen' and 'foy-ev' respectively. In certain word endings in 't', it is not pronounced and there's a ''glottal stop'' instead; eg 'mouth' - 'mow', 'maggot' - 'maggih', 'mot' [girlfriend] - 'mo''. Speakers of this accent are also the most likely of the Dublin accents to turn 'th' into 't' or 'd' ('turty tree and a turd'). In all cases, tends to be [[ClusterFBomb profanity-laden]].

* Father Ted Crilly, Father Dougal [=McGuire=] and Father Jack Hackett from ''Series/FatherTed'', despite the fact that it is set on an island off the west coast of Ireland.

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* ''Film/{{Snatch}}'': [[Creator/BradPitt Mickey]] is pretty much TheUnintelligible. [[Creator/JasonStatham Turkish]] describes his manner of speaking as "It's not English. It's not Irish. It's just Pikey." (By the way, do ''not'' refer to the accent, or people, as "pikey" in real life. [[DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch "Pikey" is considered a strong racial slur by Travellers]], and Statham's character is meant to be abusing NWordPrivileges, not using an everyday slang term.) [[FakeIrish Pitt]] actually [[ShownTheirWork did the research]] - the accent is exaggerated for comic effect but basically close to the real thing.

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[[folder: Cork]]

[[folder: Limerick]]

'''Stereotype''': Shank-toting, yokes-dropping underprivileged youth who'd stab you as soon as look at you.

-->'''Joe Duffy''': Are you the fella that wears the plastic bag over his head?
-->'''Blind Boy''': Well, there're two've us who wear plastic bags over our heads, I'm wan of 'em.
-->'''Joe Duffy''': And... can you talk properly, or is this your...
-->'''Blind Boy''': 'Chamean, can I talk praperly? Dis is Blind Boy Boat Club from da Rubberbandits, an' I'm an your shoo, willin' to speak, Joe-Joe.
-->'''Joe Duffy''': Okay, what do you think of Willie O'Dea's support?
-->'''Blind Boy''': I tink it's anreal, fair play ta Willie and tanks for supportin', it's grayat, like. [...] Anywan who's got a complayant about the video or the sang, like, yer man Anthony's who's talking away dere, what he needs to do, someone needs to give dat man a dictionary, an he needs to look up da word "ironeh".

-->'''Joe Duffy''': Anthony?
-->'''Anthony''': [''sourly''] Absolute joke.
-->'''Blind Boy''': Absolutely, it's an absolute joke, you put it well dere yirself, kid.
-->'''Anthony''': I mean, I'm all for humour, et cetera, but what you're bringing in about children, and house parties and drugs and all that, it's a disgrace.
-->'''Blind Boy''': Ahl right, one second now, right. Okeh. The line yer referrin' tah, about children and house parties and drugs, right, let me speak now a second, right--yoor lookin' at that from a very '''denotative''' perspective, right?

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[[folder: Northern]]
The Norries/Nordies. Shared here with UsefulNotes/BritishAccents. Also the [[TheUnintelligible Donegal accent]][[note]]And if you think their accent in English is unintelligible, wait till you hear Donegal Irish. It sounds more like... [[UsefulNotes/ChineseDialectsAndAccents Mandarin]], maybe? To other Irish speakers - especially the more consonantal Munster Irish speakers - it sounds like nothing but vowels, like "being petted with a language", as comedian Des Bishop put it.[[/note]]

One of the most notable sounds in the Northern Irish accent is "ar". People speak into their jaws, again audible when the "ow" sound is used. So when you next meet a Northern Irish person ask them to say "An hour in the power shower", and it comes out as "An arr in the par shar". Also, "ow" is pronounced more like "oi", leading to HilarityEnsues when it comes to "how now brown cow". This sound is particularly distinctive because it tends to be retained by Northern Irish people even when otherwise they are toning down their accent (such as newsreaders presenting national news): in the middle of an otherwise RP-sounding sentence we will be told that the Prime Minister has announced that interests rates will come "doyn". Although again, this is not the same all over Northern Ireland. People from (London)Derry do tend to pronounce power - "Pau-yer". Also see "k-yar" for "car", "say-vin" for "seven" and "fill-um" for "film".

The key to speaking Irish Sea Coast Norn Irn (which is a mix of the above, Scottish and 'rural') - talk through your nose and drop the middle out of every word, or drop half the syllables. Spaces are optional. "I went to see the doctor" becomes "Aahwentuh se thu doc'er". You can ''see'' English people's brains stop dead as they try to decipher it. Trying to talk to anyone from Pakistan, Africa or Jamaica is a lost cause.

Long story short - we have the same amount of regional variations in accent, in an area smaller than Wales, as in the rest of the UK.

* Jim [=McDonald=] in ''Series/CoronationStreet'' - an alcoholic wife beater, so he was.

* How NOT to do a Northern Irish accent - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQJrovKgrTw If It's Doomsday, It Must Be Belfast]].

* Ian Paisley - "criminality" used to be one of his favourite words.

'''Stereotype:''' [[UpperClassTwit Upper class twits]], basically -- rich kids from privileged background; Daddy is a barrister and Mammy is a "lady who lunches" and spends her time going to America on shopping trips; he plays rugby (if a he; didn't engage in sports, if female) and attends Trinity College.

* The Rubberbandits, Blind Boy Boat Club and Mr. Chrome, two supposed rappers who made their debut as online crank phone call peddlers and eventually migrated to Republic Of Telly, a sketch comedy TV show on RTÉ, where they perfected their blend of brain-melting idiocy, surrealism and hip-hop tunes. They later stormed the Edinburgh Festival and went on to produce a pilot for Channel Four which fell through, but have since moved on to ITV, and will make a show about the 1916 rising for RTÉ. Best known for their song "Horse Outside", which produced a shitstorm of outraged [[MoralGuardians moral guardians]] due to lyrics like "Fuck your Mitsubishi, I've a Horse Outside" and a video involving a short segment in which a character talked about how the married couple oughtn't give up on the partying if they have kids. Many complainers took to LiveLine, but the segment was interrupted by the intrusion of Blind Boy, who phoned in to give an erudite lecture on irony, misdirection and semiotics.

* [[Creator/BradPitt Mickey]] is pretty much TheUnintelligible. [[Creator/JasonStatham Turkish]] describes his manner of speaking as "It's not English. It's not Irish. It's just Pikey." (By the way, do ''not'' refer to the accent, or people, as "pikey" in real life. [[DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch "Pikey" is considered a strong racial slur by Travellers]], and Statham's character is meant to be abusing NWordPrivileges, not using an everyday slang term.) [[FakeIrish Pitt]] actually [[ShownTheirWork did the research]] - the accent is exaggerated for comic effect but basically close to the real thing.

The Norries/Nordies. Shared here with UsefulNotes/BritishAccents. The Republic also the [[TheUnintelligible Donegal accent]][[note]]And if you think their accent in English is unintelligible, wait till you hear Donegal Irish. It sounds more like... [[UsefulNotes/ChineseDialectsAndAccents Mandarin]], maybe? To other Irish speakers - especially the more consonantal Munster Irish speakers - it sounds like nothing but vowels, like "being petted with a language", as comedian Des Bishop put it.[[/note]]

The dialect is properly known as '''Irish English''' or '''Hiberno-English.''' The English language has been firmly entrenched in Ireland since the mid-19th Century, but, as with UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} and UsefulNotes/{{Wales}}, Irish English retains some grammatical features from the Irish language[[note]]Like the ''continuous present'' - it's not unusual to hear someone say "He does be working every day"[[/note]], as well as a couple of archaic British oddities[[note]] Like the ''plural you'' surviving in everyday speech - In UsefulNotes/{{Dublin}} and parts of the North you hear "yis / youse / yisser", as in "How are yis, did you do yisser homework?", while in the South and West you get "ye", as in "How are ye? [all of you?]"[[/note]]. Irish English is also almost entirely rhotic, except for some Dublin accents. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee_N3g4ORLk For reference, here is a video showcasing the variety of Irish accents found in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Island/Ulster]].

For other technical information about accents in predominantly English-speaking countries, see UsefulNotes/BritishAccents, UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents, UsefulNotes/CanadianAccents and UsefulNotes/AustralianAccents.

The dialect is properly known as '''Irish English''' or '''Hiberno-English.''' The English language has been firmly entrenched in Ireland since the mid-19th Century, but, as with UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} and UsefulNotes/{{Wales}}, Irish English retains some grammatical features from the Irish language[[note]]Like the ''continuous present'' - it's not unusual to hear someone say "He does be working every day"[[/note]], as well as a couple of archaic British oddities[[note]] Like the ''plural you'' surviving in everyday speech - In UsefulNotes/{{Dublin}} and parts of the North you hear "yis / youse / yisser", as in "How are yis, did you do yisser homework?", while in the South and West you get "ye", as in "How are ye? [all of you?]"[[/note]]. Irish English is also almost entirely rhotic, except for some Dublin accents.

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee_N3g4ORLk For reference...]]

* [[Creator/BradPitt Mickey]] is pretty much TheUnintelligible. [[Creator/JasonStatham Turkish]] describes his manner of speaking as "It's not English. It's not Irish. It's just Pikey."

* Segeant Jack "Butcher" O'Hara of the ''VideoGame/{{Commandos}}''. The authenticity of the accent varies from game to game.

* Conor Mac Sweeney and "Jock" O'Keefe from ''The Young Offenders'' and its SequelSeries, a pair of {{Lower Class Lout}}s from the city's northside.

* Segeant Jack "Butcher" O'Hara of the ''VideoGame/{{Commandos}}. The authenticity of the accent varies from game to game.

* Fianna Fáil leader Mícheal Martin.

The Norries/Nordies. Shared here with UsefulNotes/BritishAccents. The Republic also the [[TheUnintelligible Donegal accent]][[note]]And if you think their accent in English is unintelligible, wait till you hear Donegal Irish. It sounds more like... [[UsefulNotes/ChineseDialectsAndAccents Mandarin]], maybe? To other Irish speakers - especially the more consonantal Munster Irish speakers - it sounds like nothing but vowels, like "being petted with a langugage", as comedian Des Bishop put it.[[/note]]

The Norries/Nordies. Shared here with UsefulNotes/BritishAccents. The Republic also the [[TheUnintelligible Donegal accent]][[note]]And if you think their accent in English is unintelligible, wait till you hear Donegal Irish. It sounds more like... [[UsefulNotes/ChineseDialectsAndAccents Mandarin]], maybe?[[/note]]