History UsefulNotes / IrishAccents

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* Professional wrestler Wrestling/BeckyLynch is from Limerick. Although she spent many years in Dublin, her accent isn't from there.

'''Stereotype:''' Old, wisened, salt-of-the-earth [[ApronMatron grannies]] and [[ScrewPolitenessImASenior grandads]]; street traders, especially from Moore Street, a shopping street in the inner city; criminals and gang-members. Basically, the Dublin version of Cockney and its associated stereotypes.

* Series/GiveMyHeadPeace

* Ross O'Carroll-Kelly is a parody D4 character and star of a newspaper column and a number of 'autobiographical' novels.

See UsefulNotes/IrishTravellers for more information. Traveller accents usually sound like thick Connaught accents. Many also speak Traveller cant, known to native speakers as '''Gammon''' and linguistics experts as '''Shelta'''.

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".

* Jim Mc Donald in ''Series/CoronationStreet'' - an alcoholic wife beater, so he was.

* And of course, Liam Neeson who tends to use his natural Ballymena accent in most of his films, though his accent is quite muted and soft.

* Colin Morgan, although he shifts to an English accent for ''Series/{{Merlin}}''

* Most of the characters in ''Series/LoveHate'', but in particular Nidge and Fran[[note]]It should be noted that Nidge's actor, Tom Vaughan Lawlor actually has an accent closer to 'D4' in reality![[/note]] .

* The Dubliners, of course. In particular, Ronnie Drew had a very strong accent both while speaking and singing.

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

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 more like the 'oo' in 'moose' or 'loose'. 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'. 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]].

* Sinéad O'Connor.

* Actor Colin Farrell.
* Actor Brendan Gleeson.

* Agnes Brown from the [[Series/MrsBrownsBoys eponymous Irish/British series]] and her family members and friends.

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 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.

[[UsefulNotes/NorthernIreland Stroke Country]] offers three main flavours of the local accent:

'''Stereotype:''' None, really, since about 60% of Dubliners city- and county-wide possess it. Can be any sort of character but when they do appear they are often well educated and in prestigious jobs. Sometimes thought of as "RTÉ English", in which it is considered roughly equivalent to [[IAmVeryBritish BBC English or Received Pronunciation.]]

General characterized by [[LikeIsLikeAComma "Y'know, like]] [[VerbalTic biiiiiiyyyyyyyyy!"]]. Cork people tend to pronounce Cork as "Cark".

'''Stereotype:''' Colourful characters; wants to separate Cork county into its own country. Also hates Dublin with a passion and considers Cork superior.

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

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* Irish-American columnist [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finley_Peter_Dunne Finley Peter Dunne]] frequently wrote his columns for the Chicago Tribune featuring the fictitious Mr. Dooley, an Irish immigrant bartender from County Roscommon, with a [[PhoneticAccent Funetik Accent]]:

* Current Taoiseach Enda Kenny, from Mayo.

An accent among a certain class of younger people born after around 1970. Named after the Dublin 4 postcode, an extremely affluent and expensive area (in terms of property prices) of the city where this accent is stereotypically found. A typical sentence might be "I'm ''totally'' taking the DORT[[note]]that's Dublin Area Rapid Transit, or DART[[/note]] to the [[RugbyUnion rogby]], roysh[[note]]right[[/note]]?"

* Imelda May, rockabilly and jazz singer from The Liberties (inner city area).

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 Scotland and Wales, Irish English retains some grammatical features from the Irish language[[labelnote:*]]Like the ''continuous present'' - it's not unusual to hear someone say "He does be working every day"[[/labelnote]], as well as a couple of archaic British oddities[[labelnote:*]] Like the ''plural you'' surviving in everyday speech - In 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?]"[[/labelnote]]. Irish English is also almost entirely rhotic, except for some Dublin accents.

'''Real life examples:'''
* Jackie Wright, Belfast-born sidekick/ButtMonkey on TheBennyHillShow.

* Pat Shortt, seen in ''Series/FatherTed'' and his own series ''Killinaskully'', has a quintessential Tipperary accent.

'''Stereotype:''' Flat-cap wearing farmers, rampant xenophobes and [[CloudCuckoolander weirdos]]. Also hates Dublin. (Actually [[RunningGag word to the wise]], ''everybody'' outside Dublin hates Dublin, because they think they're the "real" Ireland and not those "fucking boggers", while simultaneously having the most West Brit, "Oh we're a European capital like London" superiority complex imaginable.)

'''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/she plays rugby and attends Trinity College.

* Jim Moriarty from ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' has a very [[LargeHam hammy]] D4 accent, when he's not shifting accent for no reason.

* Bob Geldof of The Boomtown Rats and Band Aid fame.

A ''very'' wide range of different accents, separate here from Cork and Kerry, because, well, most people think of them as separate. Most people outside Dublin can narrow down an accent by county, and within a county many can narrow it down to a town (towns only a few miles apart can have audibly different accents.) This is the accent most likely represented in {{Oireland}}, if it's not the ludicrous Kerry-esque stage-Oirish accent of the obviously FakeIrish actor.

* The characters in the 2005 mini-series ''Pure Mule'' have the very distinctive Offaly accent, which is as flat as the local countryside and which is caricaturable as ownly huving wun vuwel sownd.[[note]]The Offaly accent can be produced by forming your mouth into a pout as if you're about the play the trumpet, and then attempting to talk without moving your lips.[[/note]]

General characterized by [[LikeIsLikeAComma "Y'know, like]] [[VerbalTic biiiiiiyyyyyyyyy!"]].

* 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 a lecture on sarcasm.