Why doesn't Holly Cairns have any trace whatsoever of a Cork accent?

405_Lines_TV

It was genuinely surprising to hear her mention in an interview recently that she did her leaving Cert in Schull Community College, I thought she'd have to have boarded from the age of 10 in Alexandra's in Dublin to sound so D4, but no she's lived all her life in west Cork. So how did she end up not speaking like a Cork person?

Jack Daw

Because loads of women (and it is women in 95% of cases) decide to put on this D4 Americanized type accent , probably because they hear it on TV so much and think it makes them seem sophisticated.

Hangdogroad

She's the daughter of English hippies. Loads of them in west Cork and their children always have posh accents.

freshpopcorn

I'm from county Cork.

Not all of us sound like The Young Offenders.

Mother Shaboobu

West Cork isn't the same as "Cark". Extremely posh in parts. Yeah there are plenty of places in West Cork where people have the rural Cork accent, but Schull - not so much.

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124001618#Comment_124001618

C4?

Mother Shaboobu

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124001621#Comment_124001621

That's literally what Schull and its surrounds is referred to as.

Hande hoche!

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124001621#Comment_124001621

Explosive comment.

eightieschewbaccy

I'm from Cork, don't put any effort into modifying my accent. Most people don't think I'm from Cork. Irish accents are so broad and varied so it's really not that strange.

Mr. teddywinkles

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124000577#Comment_124000577

Heyyyy boooiiii!!

Bogey Lowenstein

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123998993#Comment_123998993

It is usually when they go to college in Dublin. People from all over Ireland with different regional accents all get the D4 accent even before their first year is finished.

Pauliedragon

I remember Cork TD Thomas Gould accusing Barry Cowen of mocking his Cork accent a few years ago. People from different counties can have varied accents. I'm from Cork and for some reason a lot of people tell me I sound like I'm from Dublin. Probably the biggest insult I've ever had to deal with😂

artanevilla

How come Helen McEntee doesn't have a foreign accent? She is the minister for foreign affairs.

Larbre34

This thread is demonstrative of how far Boards has fallen.

Glaceon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124001618#Comment_124001618

My sister-in-law is from near Bantry and she does sound very "Cark". Although she also lived in the city for quite a while as an adult so that might have contributed. But her parents definitely don't.

dxhound2005

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124023342#Comment_124023342

Cairns was elected to the Dail in February 2020. In May 2021 if not before, her posh accent became a subject for comment on Boards. There have been other comments apart from the thread below.

Post #692, Page 24.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2057788789/the-tonight-show-virgin-media-one

Hangdogroad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124023377#Comment_124023377

The accent from there (excluding "blow ins") is different from the Cork City accent.

cml387

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124023342#Comment_124023342

I'm pretty sure there's been worse than this.

orourkeda1

I'd probably still ride her.

Beechwoodspark

these fake accents are a class thing for sure.

Holly using that fake accent is a signal she is sending that as far as she is concerned, she and her class are superior than people with regular local Irish accents.

That’s it really.

Lecter8319

Whatever about her accent, that party is full of the most insufferable type of arseholes going. Any opportunity to virtue signal, they're on it. Who on earth is voting for them?? must be these young liberal types, heavily sheltered, get their news from the likes of reddit, lacking in any real world or real life experience. See many of them around certain more affluent parts of Dublin and Cork especially. Im sure alot of her own circle of friends mainly resemble them.

They make Sinn Fein, pbp and Labour look not so bad & thats saying something. God help us if a left wing coalition ever gets into power here. Things are bad enough already

eightieschewbaccy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124036009#Comment_124036009

Yawn, pretty sure that's just her accent. I'm frequently mistaken as not from Cork but I'm not putting on an accent. Think you're just struggling with the concept that there's more than one accent in Cork. 😂

Isthisthingon?

A persons accent ( assuming its not deliberately changed) is a product of thier environment, you might be from town X but if you grew up with parents not from that area ( or country) you pick up all kinds of strange dialects, diito goes for school friends , family members etc.

littlefeet

Accents seem to trigger people for some reason.

I read a book last summer set in a very cut-off bit of France. The main protagonist muses on why the local young people want to get the hell out of there as soon as they can, and go to university, or city life, the first rung of middle-class, and at the same time, the place attracts wealthy middle-class young people from Paris who want to live an alternative lifestyle.

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orangerhyme

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124035978#Comment_124035978

Defo.

I like her accent.

coolbeans

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124036009#Comment_124036009

It's not necessarily fake. Not all Irish people have a strong accent just like we're not all into the GAA, spuds and drink. Her people probably have the same accent she does. Many of the protestant bent would speak like that to this day. Others have gone full native however. I'm just saying that there are many shades of green and the way she speaks probably isn't fakery.

Beechwoodspark

In rural Ireland you will have the residents of the local “big house” who have been living there for generations (descended from english colonisers…)

they will rock on down to the village shop “oooh mummy, golly gosh” all this palavar, it’s a class identifier, a signal to the “natives” they are a step above them in the social ladder.

the irony is a lot of that cohort may have the big house and surrounding land but Havnt “a pot to piss in” in terms of ready money.

dxhound2005

All the big houses were burnt out 100 years ago. Anyone left alive went to the North.