Which famous Irish person has the nicest accent?

JohnnyFlash

WhenPigsCry wrote: »

Pfft, Claire Byrne?

Sarah McInerney has a way nicer voice.

I’ve started listening to Drivetime since Mary Wilson moved to pastures new. One of the reasons I’ve stayed listening to it is that McInerney and Cormac Ó hEadhra are very easy to listen to. Soft and pleasant accent, and clear pronunciation. Both from Galway which does explain it in fairness.

gigantic09

Nuala ó Faoláin.

pipelaser

Ken Early of The Irish Times and Second Captains fame

El Tarangu

the purple tin wrote: »

Brenda Fricker.

Was going to post the same thing - she used to do these voice-overs for TG4 ads; very evocative, can still hear her saying "TG4, suil eile" years later.

patsy_mccabe

Michael Harding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN4HItHdDHQ

KungPao

Johnny Giles.

I like Cathal O'Shannon's accent too.

Old Dublin accents can't be beat.

the purple tin

Denny O'Reilly

IAMAMORON

I love it when Brian Kerr is commentating the soccer. The analogies, idioms, euphemisms and malapropisms do be climbing up the wall like an Olympic swimmer in training for early mass on Sunday.

dd973

Lest we forget, only people born and raised in Ireland have an accent, no one else does.

McGinniesta

Jamie Dornan in his new movie according to Liveline.

EmmetSpiceland

Craig Doyle.
Lucy Kennedy.
Donal Skehan.

AdrianBalboa

Ryle Nugent has a wonderful accent.

IAMAMORON

Jane Mangan
Sally Ann Grassick

440Hertz

jmlad2020 wrote: »

Anything non-D4 is nice. They have the worst accent..

I wouldn’t mind but nobody in D4 actually has that accent. Most of the D4 residents have fairly clear Dublin accents that vary from docklands to just clear to a bit old world posh.

The “D4 accent” seems to be a product of a number of expensive schools and the residents of South Co. Dublin, and RTE types from Offaly, Cavan etc and definitely not D4.

IAMAMORON

440Hertz wrote: »

I wouldn’t mind but nobody in D4 actually has that accent. Most of the D4 residents have fairly clear Dublin accents that vary from docklands to just clear to a bit old world posh.

The “D4 accent” seems to be a product of a number of expensive schools and the residents of South Co. Dublin, and RTE types from Offaly, Cavan etc and definitely not D4.

And Waterford and Kilkenny climbers have an awful lot to answer for also.

The D4 accent has basically developed from greedy culchie climbers, in particular hypergamous women.

Cork suffers from the same craic in Montenotte, the place is riddled with climbers from South Limerick and Tipperary.

Its' disgusting.

Vita nova

IAMAMORON wrote: »

And Waterford and Kilkenny climbers have an awful lot to answer for also.

The D4 accent has basically developed from greedy culchie climbers, in particular hypergamous women.

Cork suffers from the same craic in Montenotte, the place is riddled with climbers from South Limerick and Tipperary.

Its' disgusting.

Sounds awfully like scapegoating and while there may be some truth in it, local influences on the development of the accent are probably a lot stronger than that from outsiders and migrants.

Larbre34

Sarah McInerney's soft low Galwegian brogue makes me happy.

chooseusername

Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh

IAMAMORON

Vita nova wrote: »

Sounds awfully like scapegoating and while there may be some truth in it, local influences on the development of the accent are probably a lot stronger than that from outsiders and migrants.

No, the culchie hypergamous influence in the D4 accent is not to be underestimated. Think Wexford brogue droll infused with Royal County cusp. It is an intoxicating element to the vocal linguistic development of the D4 brogue.

You can see it prevalent in most yuppie groups hanging around the Ballsbridge, Donnybrook and Baggott Street triangle. Lots of hot culchie babes from bog ridden corners of the country exhibiting posh accents and swilling on overpriced food and wine. The poor local dubs haven't a chance. Ask the decent people of Ringsend and Irishtown who are simply a result of human displacement, garnered through incessant culchie greed.

It is a terrifying phenomenon really.

Stevieluvsye

Rachael English is easy on the ear.