How would you classify these Dublin accents?

Moriarity

Hi. I have seen several posts on here about various accents in Ireland, and was hoping that all of you could help me out with this - it requires watching about ten seconds' worth of clips on youtube of various Dubliners (and surroundings) speaking. Some of these people's voices you may already know well, so in that case, no need to watch the clip.

The question for all, however, is: by his accent, can you identify where the speaker is from, and what type of background/'class' he is from?

As I said, the content of the clip isn't important. More the accent! Thanks in advance.

Speaker 1: David Norris http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8-KWkIDFi8

Speaker 2: Bertie Ahern http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrEfKXTatWE

Speaker 3: Presenter of 'Cromwell in Ireland' Documentary on RTE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NAY6mu43zc

Speaker 4: Colin Farrell (yikes!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIL3K2iGzYs

Speaker 5: 'Presenter' of Lisbon Treaty ad (Simon Delaney is speaker) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqVL3IWZ9Pg

Blazer

Dublin Accent = Scum

super_furry

All better than any class of a turf-eating muck savage accent.

Mike...

Berkut wrote: »

Dublin Accent = Scum

Not really an Irish Accent is it...More of a West Brit Accent

DublinWriter

1. West Brit
2. North Dublin City working class
3. Middle-class West Ireland
4. Middle-class North Dublin affecting working-class Dublin
5. Working-class Dublin affecting middle-class Dublin

An Fear Aniar

Mike... wrote: »

Not really an Irish Accent is it...More of a West Brit Accent

Correct. Dublin was always a foreign bridgehead, Dublin accent is not an Irish accent at all.

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tallus

There's nothing like a thread about Dublin to bring out the begrudging culchie gits

WIZE

Dublin people speak english more clearly then the Great British and other 25 counties in the ROI

super_furry

Jaysis, the boggers are out in force this morning. Shouldn't you all be out milking your sisters or something?

WIZE

Berkut wrote: »

Dublin Accent = Scum

culchie accent = WTF did you say ?

WeeBushy

BVB wrote: »

Dublin people speak english clearer then the Great British and other 25 counties in the ROI

More clearly

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Could one of the non-Dubliners tell me the difference between a west-brit and a non-dub?

Didn't think so...

WIZE

WeeBushy wrote: »

More clearly

thanks I fixed My post but I was talking about accents

Dravokivich

Mike... wrote: »

Not really an Irish Accent is it...More of a West Brit Accent

tip top morning 'ey Guv'nor?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Dravokivich wrote: »

tip top morning 'ey Guv'nor?

Toppa de MARNIN to ya, dare Flannigan!

oldyouth

Why do so many bogtrotters acquire the Dublin accent so readily when they move to the capital? Simple, so others can understand what they are saying. Generally grunting, groaning, tipping the cap etc gets them by down the country

thomond2006

Robbie Keane

Blazer

BVB wrote: »

culchie accent = WTF did you say ?

#

yes..but a culchie accent doesn't sound scummy

super_furry

Berkut wrote: »

#

yes..but a culchie accent doesn't sound scummy

Limerick, Cork, Dundalk.....

Dilynnio

A wannabe D4 culchie accent! Hilarious!

topper75

I enjoy the variety in Dublin accents, except for the one recently made up accent (used exclusively by posh kids and arseholes).

goldenbrown

the dublin accent is more a scandanavian accent as the city was created by scandis and run by them for a long time, then the scandis continued with violent ways and moved to the edges while real gangster normans took the wheel..... boggers came in mon to fri to do the paperwork and then went home to sweaty macra dances...

you have norman dublin accents there, and a carpet munching accent:pac:

DamoDLK

super_furry wrote: »

Limerick, Cork, Dundalk.....

Super Furry! Dundalk?!? wtf? well actually 'da Tauwn' accent.. its an acquired taste.

Actually stick a few shamrock rovers fans in oriel park - you'd not know the difference..

DrumSteve

well id rather be a dub than some bog trotter.

Latchy

BVB wrote: »

Dublin people speak english more clearly then the Great British and other 25 counties in the ROI

the northcide Dubs or the southcide ones ?

Quite a variation in the accent .

prinz

Just to point out, Colin Farrell is a twat with the fakest accent since Darby O'Gill.

_blank_

bleedin' bog warriors.

If you hate Dublin so much then get the fúck out of it.

I'd love to nuke bog-central Ranelagh and all the pubs they frequent.

Flannery's most of all, then Coppers.

Bleedin' check shirts tucked into their wranglers.

Eyes different sizes.

Tazdedub

Des wrote: »

bleedin' bog warriors.

If you hate Dublin so much then get the fúck out of it.

I'd love to nuke bog-central Ranelagh and all the pubs they frequent.

Flannery's most of all, then Coppers.

Bleedin' check shirts tucked into their wranglers.

Eyes different sizes.

Dont hold back there Des. All the same I agree with everything ya say, although blowing up coppers would be a crime against humanity, where would all us ugly folks to get our end away?

Slow Motion

OP are you some lazy student who wants the internet to do his research for him?

yupyup7up

Dublin accents are gammy, same as the rest of the country except Donegal.
I have a Limerick accent but went to dublin for 6 months last year and ended up with a Limerick accent heavy influenced by Cork and some Dublin parts.. I start "singing" like a corconian at times and pronounce certain words like jackeens such as 'ou' for 'out' and 'woooork' for 'work'.
so a typically sentence is like:"Im not f*ckin headin ou tonigh' Ive woork in de mornin' kid.." so I sound like a spacer

yupyup7up

Des wrote: »

bleedin' bog warriors.

If you hate Dublin so much then get the fúck out of it.

I'd love to nuke bog-central Ranelagh and all the pubs they frequent.

Flannery's most of all, then Coppers.

Bleedin' check shirts tucked into their wranglers.

Eyes different sizes.

I don't live there anymore thank f*ck:D
Had to go there for COMPULSORY work placement. I hate the place thats why I stayed in Limerick after college, cuz its not full of arrogant pr1icks. Just thought Id point out that Flannerys is on Camden St and Coppers = Harcourt St., not ranelagh. Some cheeky f*ckers up there, some girl started slaggin me taking off a cork accent one day in barcode. When I told her im from Limerick, she continued with the stupid fake 'Kark' accent but started saying stab city this and that(the usual :rolleyes:). My response was that we dont have knives anymore, we have guns and that d blow her head off if she slagged my city one more. Needless to say she shut the F8ck up and left...:D

toomevara

I say fellows, I thought you all spoke in this quaint manner....certainly sounds alot more authentic than those queer chaps in the OP....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4xnb9AmY28

Pherekydes

Latchy wrote: »

...the southcide

Close to suicide*.


Worst accent evar: my neice (Cabra). My own daughters have to ask her repeatedly what she's saying. She's completely unintelligible, and that's all that matters about an accent.


*Side is spelled side.

WIZE

Latchy wrote: »

the northcide Dubs or the southcide ones ?

Quite a variation in the accent .

North County Dublin

Davidius

Other than the first one (what the **** was that?) I don't really hear all that much of a difference between each clip.

I was in Waterford last week. There was a strange amount of Dublin accent in the air.

I've forgotten what my accent sounds like. I've been playing around with my voice so much lately, I think I may have forgotten how to speak naturally.

biko

DrumSteve wrote: »

well id rather be a dub Jackeen than some bog trotter.

FYP

As to those accents, all sound the same more or less

Pherekydes

Magnus wrote: »

As to those accents, all sound the same more or less

E.N.T. thataway ---->

gurramok

Latchy wrote: »

the northcide Dubs or the southcide ones ?

Quite a variation in the accent .

Roight, i speak perfectly D4 language

grenache

you can't beat the west of ireland accent, and the galway city one in particular. soft, lilting, easy on the ear....

cruiser178

tallus wrote: »

There's nothing like a thread about Dublin to bring out the begrudging culchie gits

Why in the love and honour of jaysus do you think anyone would begrudge you living in dublin.cultureless,hustle and busle,hours and hours commuting to and from work and over PRICED to put it mildly.No thanks i'll gladly stick to this side of the country:).

ScumLord

Des wrote: »

bleedin' bog warriors.

If you hate Dublin so much then get the fúck out of it.

I'd love to nuke bog-central Ranelagh and all the pubs they frequent.
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Why do you think we sent those fuppers up there, Where are all the hard-nut stabtastic smack heads when ya need them. There's no room for them back here, we turned that field into a pub.

Lirange

Limerick people giving out. Whatever next.

noodler

I would propose that the North-South dublin disparity in accents isn't really applicable anymore.

If anything its more of a East-West divide these days. The Dart Line against the rest.

DrumSteve

Magnus wrote: »

FYP

As to those accents, all sound the same more or less

jackeen,dub, whatever.

Wibbs

An Fear Aniar wrote: »

Correct. Dublin was always a foreign bridgehead, Dublin accent is not an Irish accent at all.

Oh how I lolled. If you're talking about "foreign bridgeheads" well then you better lump in Waterford, Galway and especially Cork then. Good luck with that.

While you're at it you better tell the Scottish that their accent, Gaelic language and even their name as a people is not really theirs as it's actually all Irish. Good luck with that one too. Their whole country was at one time a bridgehead of a foreign power that wasnae the hated engerlish. We forced out their religion, tweaked their culture and obliterated their various languages in very short order on the back of a Irish cultural invasion. The Norman/English by practical comparison could be well argued did less.

So basically in that case the only "real" Irish accent, is to be found at the fringes or in the middle of this island?

cruiser178

cruiser178 wrote: »

Why in the love and honour of jaysus do you think anyone would begrudge you living in dublin Limerick. cultureless, hustle and busle, hours and hours commuting to and from work and over PRICED to put it mildly. Drab, amenity-less, graveyard of prospects and boring to put it mildly. No thanks i'll gladly stick to this side of the country:).

Fixamajigged.

Moriarity

Dublin Writer...thanks for responding. You appear to be the only one (as well as Mangus) that actually got the point. Anyone else want to follow Dublin Writer's cue, instead of hurl abuses at one another?

Quint

Mike... wrote: »

Not really an Irish Accent is it...More of a West Brit Accent

The Welsh accent is nothing like a Dublin accent

topper75

They hate the Irish do the Dubs. Hate them.

Remember about 1000 years back there when the young O'Brien lad went up to give them a puck in the jaw? They seem to have forgotten their lesson.

topper75

topper75 wrote: »

They hate the Irish do the Dubs. Hate them.

Remember about 1000 years back there when the young O'Brien lad went up to give them a puck in the jaw? They seem to have forgotten their lesson.

Seriously, wtf are you bangin' on about?

Rebelheart

BVB wrote: »

Dublin people speak english more clearly then the Great British and other 25 counties in the ROI

hehe. That was like one of the 3 major "achievements" of the Irish people in National School - the other two being that O'Connell Bridge was the 3rd widest bridge in a European city and the Phoenix Park was the largest enclosed city park in Europe.

Whatever about the last two, the first claim is an absolutely hilarious example of a regional backwater mentality.