D'Irish Accent

Mark200

Does anyone else hate the Irish accent? I can't stand it. Like I'm sure I have one, but not a strong one. I cringe every time there's an Irish actor on TV with a strong Irish accent....which seems to be pretty much all Irish actors.

Also, before anyone suggests otherwise....I'm 100% Irish. I don't know of any blood relatives who are not Irish.

Tech3

The posh dublin accent is the worst. Every other kind of accent I would tolerate

Latchy

Big difference between the Hollywood stage Irish accent and what we hear in Dublin / Ireland and abroad .Dont think you could say the Irish accent is horrible when there are so many variations of it, some very nice and pleasent on the ears compared to the few which are horrible .But every race has it's share of horrible accents ,some British American and Aussie ones spring to mind .

Hande hoche!

To be fair there's far worse accents out there.Do yo mean all Irish accents as there is a large number?

Davidius

I like Irish accents, what I hate is when people go out of their way to make their accent less Irish.

demakinz

well when you start a sentence with 'like' ,it mean you have that irish accent that everyone hates no matter where your from..but in all fairness we have a great accent.im proud of showing it off anyways forin:D:D

Mark200

Well I don't really mean the hollywood accents, more like the accents you hear on the shite are-t-e programmes

sneakerfreak

only some northern accents and some dublin accents are ok

everyone else sounds like gards and tinkers

FACT

badabinbadaboom

Ah come now boyo, sure tis like the heavenly choir are crooning a lullaby everytime some soul a-blessed with the delightful Irish brogue opens his Gab, sure tis'nt it like me Da used to say when I brought up such a worry before him, he would lower his glass from his lips call another round and say, "Ah come now boyo, sure tis like the heavenly choir are crooning a lullaby everytime some soul a-blessed with the delightful Irish brogue opens his Gab, sure tis'nt it like me Da used to say when I brought up such a worry before him......"

KateF

I like most Irish accents. I don't like the posh Dublin one. What do they think they are like? Wannabe Americans....
And I don't like the Dundalk accent. Thats wrecks my head. Instead of saying "there" its "daay-ugh" so annoying.
I like pretty much like any other Irish accent though

Abi

tech2 wrote: »

The posh dublin accent is the worst. Every other kind of accent I would tolerate

Yerr oi no wo' yerr meeahn.

Latchy

Take filums

Victoria Smurfit has a nice accent .

Colum Meany's is funny and very typical dub .

Coiln farrell's is a south county dublin accent via LA

Brendean gleesons another typical dub acccent but very pleasent /funny on the ears .

None of the above is what I would call a horrible Irish accent

fryup

Davidius wrote: »

I like Irish accents, what I hate is when people go out of their way to make their accent less Irish.

well i hate when people go out of there to make their accent more irish......like Hector O'Hooleywhatever....he wrecks my head!!

Latchy

Dustin the turkey doesnt do the Irish accent justice '' atall atall ''

xOxSinéadxOx

what's wrong with the irish accent? english accents annoy me, the way they say aaaayyy instead of eeeee

IHATELIBERTAS

yeah i love my accent tbh.

chopperbyrne

Without an Irish accent it'd be impossible to sing this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXb_MhvIIzY

Jay D

Mark200 wrote: »

Does anyone else hate the Irish accent? I can't stand it. Like I'm sure I have one, but not a strong one. I cringe every time there's an Irish actor on TV with a strong Irish accent....which seems to be pretty much all Irish actors.

Also, before anyone suggests otherwise....I'm 100% Irish. I don't know of any blood relatives who are not Irish.

No sure how could you hate your own accent? I don't particularly like the sound of my own voice when I hear it but what I really hate is idiotic shams we have in our society today, they really piss me off.

Rabies

Its great for picking up girls when when live abroad.

Latchy

Never did me no harm

ScarlettOHara

I am a southern belle gentlemen ( seeing as I am the original scarlet woman I won't be addressing the ladies in attendance) I quite like the way I talk, my pa ended up breaking his Irish neck and avoived all that civil war hullaballoo

Svalbard

I don't hate it, but when foreigners go on about how they love the Irish accent i just can't understand why.
What I hate is people who think having an Irish accent must go hand in hand with having poor grammar. And being told I sound posh just because I speak English properly (albeit in an Irish accent).

Irish accents i quite like are:
1. Dublin - not D4 or skanger, the "real" Dublin accent is lovely (most of the time). "Oranges, three for a euro!"
2. The Cork accent on some people.
3. The Kerry accent
4. Northern Irish accent, if its not too strong.
5. Non-regional - think newsreaders on TV3. Ahhhh.

I dislike:
1. Limerick accent (I'm from Limerick)
2. North-East accent (Meath, Louth, Monaghan) - they just sound thick, sorry.
3. Midlands - vowels sounds are three times too long and sound like they are being made by a lame donkey.

Handsome Bob

At least with Irish accents I know where I stand. I've had a colleague for the past three years and I'm still non-the-wiser as to whether he is just a very posh bloke from South Dublin or whether he's from America.:pac::pac::pac:

ronan001

Mark200 wrote: »

Does anyone else hate the Irish accent? I can't stand it. Like I'm sure I have one, but not a strong one. I cringe every time there's an Irish actor on TV with a strong Irish accent....which seems to be pretty much all Irish actors.

Also, before anyone suggests otherwise....I'm 100% Irish. I don't know of any blood relatives who are not Irish.

What accent would you like to have?

Piriz

fryup wrote: »

well i hate when people go out of there to make their accent more irish......like Hector O'Hooleywhatever....he wrecks my head!!

totally agree he really turns the irish up to the max its foolish

Svalbard wrote: »

I don't hate it, but when foreigners go on about how they love the Irish accent i just can't understand why.
What I hate is people who think having an Irish accent must go hand in hand with having poor grammar. And being told I sound posh just because I speak English properly (albeit in an Irish accent).

Irish accents i quite like are:
1. Dublin - not D4 or skanger, the "real" Dublin accent is lovely (most of the time). "Oranges, three for a euro!"
2. The Cork accent on some people.
3. The Kerry accent
4. Northern Irish accent, if its not too strong.
5. Non-regional - think newsreaders on TV3. Ahhhh.

I dislike:
1. Limerick accent (I'm from Limerick)
2. North-East accent (Meath, Louth, Monaghan) - they just sound thick, sorry.
3. Midlands - vowels sounds are three times too long and sound like they are being made by a lame donkey.

quite agree with this too...

ya cant beat a dublin accent...middle/working class but educated is absolutely top notch for story telling, humour, banter etc..

navan accent is worst along with 'carraig mac cross' in monaghan its a total muck savage accent..

absolute hate country folk who come up to dublin for college or work etc after school and adopt a south d4 type accent..should be shot! f*ucking wannabees idiots aaaaarrrrgh hate you people!!! f*ck off ya pieces of sh*t

rant over!

oh i like when people up north say 'i' for yes....cool it is!

Epic Tissue

Piriz wrote: »

totally agree he really turns the irish up to the max its foolish



quite agree with this too...

ya cant beat a dublin accent...middle/working class but educated is absolutely top notch for story telling, humour, banter etc..

"educated" isn't exactly a accent group

Cow Moolester

Mmmm...Dervla Kirwan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHFKE6PD_6U

embee

latchyco wrote: »

Take filums

Victoria Smurfit has a nice accent .

Colum Meany's is funny and very typical dub .

Coiln farrell's is a south county dublin accent via LA

Brendean gleesons another typical dub acccent but very pleasent /funny on the ears .

None of the above is what I would call a horrible Irish accent

They're all variations on a Dublin accent, be it a posh, put-on Americanised accent, or the born and bread and buttered salt o' the earth northside Dublin accent.

There are other people out there - with other accents! Or do you only like Dublin accents?

fryup wrote: »

well i hate when people go out of there to make their accent more irish......like Hector O'Hooleywhatever....he wrecks my head!!

He's from Navan. Most people I know from Navan speak more or less like him.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Mark200 wrote: »

....I'm 100% Irish.

And do you drive a taxi?.

:P

Kintarō Hattori

You say you hate the 'irish' accent - why exactly? There is such huge variety that you can't lump them all in as one accent. Mayo, Kerry, Dublin, Cavan...... just some examples that are very different from each other. Do you hate them all?

Is it really our accents that you hate or our pronunciations and tones? Are there other accents that you hate, say for example the aussie accent or a french accent, or is it purely the irish one that you dislike?

Piriz wrote: »

oh i like when people up north say 'i' for yes....cool it is!

Aye.

KateF

Don't get why you hate Irish accents either tbh. Some are not good at all, but on the whole, I think our accents are grand. Shur!
I like 'aye' too. Although originally a Scottish thing. But I like most Scottish accents!

MIN2511

I love the Irish accent-i HATE the Donegal accent! I have picked a few bits and pieces but i am a sucker for the Cork accent!

Ah bless another drunken post

Black Swan

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arama

sneakerfreak wrote: »

only some northern accents and some dublin accents are ok

everyone else sounds like gards and tinkers

FACT

you havent a clue have you!!!!!!!!!!!!! such an ass hole
dubs have the worst accent ever ever!! den with ur level of intelligence i reckon ur prob fron inner city dublin!!!!:mad: muppet

Tom Dunne

arama wrote: »

den with ur level of intelligence i reckon ur prob fron inner city dublin!!!

Anyone else see the massive irony in this quality post?

Saruman

Some Irish accents are great and others are horrible to listen to. Same as everywhere. Certain Cork accents are lovely on women.

I know what you mean about TV but thats fair city which is just bad acting.

YDMHSSB

irish accents are amongest the most favourite in the world. its a blessing to be single when travelling with an irish accent! as long as its not a "hows the going bud,ya know wat i mean ya bleeding sap" type dublin accent, a louth/meath accent or a f*cking d4 "i have something stuck up my hole accent, its a good one....

Saruman

I have a great accent Well thats what people tell me. It is light and (some might think this bad) almost American. That would be due to me being around Americans all my life and being married to one. Sometimes my wife almost sounds more Irish than me.

Accents are funny, even in my family we all have different accents. My sister sounds different to me and my brother is a little different again. My sister when she hung around with skangers sounded like one but not any more.

I myself used to have a much more pronounced Dub accent but that changed when i stopped hanging around with the Ballyfermot croud.

When i was younger, in my teens. I think it was 1994, i was a dedicated Christian and went door to door once with missionaries from the church. This was in Navan by the way. Anyway when i spoke for the first time, some young girls my age who answered the door said to me in a horrible Navan accent "His accents luvley"

Anyway accents change somewhat depending on who you are around. When in the US i sound more American, back home i sound more Irish. Same with my wife, she sounds more American when she talks to Americans and less so when around Irish people.



I was pretty nieve back then as you can see. I hate people who knock on my door now and am certainly not a believer in any religion. How things change.

dr.bollocko

arama wrote: »

you havent a clue have you!!!!!!!!!!!!! such an ass hole
dubs have the worst accent ever ever!! den with ur level of intelligence i reckon ur prob fron inner city dublin!!!!:mad: muppet

Banned bud.

tolosenc

I hate the way putt, put and push tend to merge into one pronounciation in Irish English. I also hate the letters "oar" and "haych".

Otherwise it's just Hiberno-English grammar that annoys the **** out of me.

allabouteve

latchyco wrote: »

Big difference between the Hollywood stage Irish accent and what we hear in Dublin / Ireland and abroad .Dont think you could say the Irish accent is horrible when there are so many variations of it, some very nice and pleasent on the ears compared to the few which are horrible .But every race has it's share of horrible accents ,some British American and Aussie ones spring to mind .

I was going to send you a Boards valentine, but you can forget it now.

Deeply wounded:(.

Not all Aussie accents sound like the ones on Neighbours you know.:p

Big Ears

I've a strange appreciation for all Irish accents, how boring would it be if we all sounded the same ?

Latchy

allabouteve wrote: »

I was going to send you a Boards valentine, but you can forget it now.

Deeply wounded:(.

Not all Aussie accents sound like the ones on Neighbours you know.:p

Oh nooooooooooooooooooooo :eek: Nah , actually some Aussie accents like some American ones are marvellous and pleasent .

Just pointing out that each race including the Irish have horrendous ones .

* Patiently waits , (sigh ) if only I knew , if only I knew *

Canis Lupus

Dublin accents I don't like. It's either faux posh or makes you feel the person is about to stab you in the eye.

Strong Cork accent as well but that just makes me laugh on the inside because it's just so so so so boggerish.

Erm... Northern Irish accents can get wearing as well.

allabouteve

latchyco wrote: »

Oh nooooooooooooooooooooo :eek: Nah , actually some Aussie accents like some American ones are marvellous and pleasent .

Just pointing out that each race including the Irish have horrendous ones .

* Patiently waits , (sigh ) if only I knew , if only I knew *

I like the desperate clawback, so you're forgiven!:D

Latchy

embee wrote: »

They're all variations on a Dublin accent, be it a posh, put-on Americanised accent, or the born and bread and buttered salt o' the earth northside Dublin accent.

There are other people out there - with other accents! Or do you only like Dublin accents?

No of course not ,I am familer with all Irish accents . Being born and rared in Dublin ,with a mother from Co Clare and father from Co Down . Moving around Ireland with the Irish army as well as the obious relations made me appreciate the good and bad ones each region has .I was just using those Dublin people's accents as examples of probably having more high profile at a national / world level .I like some country accents more than others .

I find the Lietrim / Meath /wicklow one a bit harsh .;)

allabouteve wrote: »

I like the desperate clawback, so you're forgiven!:D

All's right with the world so

KateF

latchyco wrote: »

I find the Lietrim / Meath /wicklow one a bit harsh .;)

They're not really alike. Those counties are quite a bit apart. I get the feeling you just lump all country accents together.

Duck's hoop

latchyco wrote: »

I find the Lietrim / Meath /wicklow one a bit harsh .;)

Bit late for the ironing innit?

Right, though you forget Cavan. And Wexford. And why haven't you given Wicklow the respect? Wicklow

Abi

KateF wrote: »

They're not really alike. Those counties are quite a bit apart. I get the feeling you just lump all country accents together.

Why?

Dudess

I agree with the OP. The Irish accent - any Irish accent - tends not to translate well to TV/radio.

The soft T sound is terrible - you know the way we pronounce "gate", "late", "date" etc as "gaish", "laish", "daish". That said, whenever I hear Irish people pronouncing the T sharply, the way English people do it, I find my fist curling into a ball.

Acacia

I love Irish accents (all the different ones). I just hate Hollywood Irish accents.