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Which famous Irish person has the nicest accent?

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  • #62
    AllGunsBlazing
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    Larry Gogan.


    Well spoken without sounding pretentious or forced.


  • #63
    COVID
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    sligojoek wrote: »
    Katie Hannon.

    You're kidding.


  • #64
    whisky_galore
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    Most Nordie accents from well to do and rural areas sound nice.

    Their working class town and city accents sound like knee capping imminent.


  • #65
    Galwayguy35
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    Evanne Ni Chuilinn, has a nice soothing tone as she tells us the sports results, easy on the eye as well.


  • #66
    sligojoek
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    COVID wrote: »
    You're kidding.

    What's wrong with the way she speaks? I find her very easy on the ear,


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  • #67
    Badly Drunk Boy
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    Say Your Number wrote: »

    Jonathan Ryan, maybe not that famous but nearly everyone here would recognise that voice from radio/television ads.

    http://voiceover.ie/
    Jonathan Ryan played the doctor in The Irish RM (from the mid 80s) which is being shown on TG4 every Sunday evening at the moment.


  • #68
    Yikesoc2
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    Saoirse Ronan.


  • #69
    suicide_circus
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    Anne Doyle
    John Creedon
    Daniel O'Donnell


  • #70
    deise toffee
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    Una Healy has a lovely accent and is lovely looking too!


  • #71
    spakman
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    deise toffee wrote: »
    Una Healy has a lovely accent and is lovely looking too!

    Awful Tipp accent and a lisp!
    John Creedon and Paul McGrath are good shouts.
    Rory O'Connell has a very good speaking voice, but a bit too posh.


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  • #72
    COVID
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    sligojoek wrote: »
    What's wrong with the way she speaks? I find her very easy on the ear,

    No probs. I just thought you were having a laugh.


  • #73
    rostalof
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    AdrianBalboa wrote: »
    Not at all. In fact I'm surprised to hear so many voices from down the country represented in this thread.

    Can I ask why? The thread is about Irish accents. Considering there are twice as many people in the mythical land of 'down the country' as there are in Dublin, it's perfectly reasonable they'd be proportionally represented in the thread. Is any accent that isn't an affected D4 one not considered Irish?


  • #74
    sligojoek
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    Joe Biden


  • #75
    EmmetSpiceland
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    rostalof wrote: »
    Can I ask why? The thread is about Irish accents. Considering there are twice as many people in the mythical land of 'down the country' as there are in Dublin, it's perfectly reasonable they'd be proportionally represented in the thread. Is any accent that isn't an affected D4 one not considered Irish?

    Yes but the “twice as many” includes the, truly dreadful, accents of Cavan, Monaghan, Louth, Laois, Offaly, Longford, Carlow, Wexford, Waterford, south Tipperary, Limerick “city” and north Cork.

    “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be” - A. Dumbledore

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #76
    Captain Havoc
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    Ruth McCabe.

    https://ormondelanguagetours.com

    Walking Tours of Kilkenny in English, French or German.



  • #77
    JohnnyFlash
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    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    Yes but the “twice as many” includes the, truly dreadful, accents of Cavan, Monaghan, Louth, Laois, Offaly, Longford, Carlow, Wexford, Waterford, south Tipperary, Limerick “city” and north Cork.

    North Tipperary isn’t great either, Emmet. Mucksavages.


  • #78
    jmlad2020
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    Anything non-D4 is nice. They have the worst accent..


  • #79
    the purple tin
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    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    Yes but the “twice as many” includes the, truly dreadful, accents of Cavan, Monaghan, Louth, Laois, Offaly, Longford, Carlow, Wexford, Waterford, south Tipperary, Limerick “city” and north Cork.
    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    North Tipperary isn’t great either, Emmet. Mucksavages.


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  • #80
    Dakota Dan
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    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    You forgot the dude who does the Auld Mr Brennan ads, Emmet.

    That’s Eamon Morrissey.


  • #81
    Dakota Dan
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    JustAThought wrote: »
    The beardey guy who used to read the news in Irish for decades in RTE - not sure what he was saying but he always had a lovely voice.

    Michael Murphy, he came out a few years ago.


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  • #82
    Dakota Dan
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    AdrianBalboa wrote: »
    Say what you like about him but Ryan Tubridy has a lovely accent.

    Ah stop he has a false ear grating accent.


  • #83
    HeidiHeidi
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    Dakota Dan wrote: »
    Michael Murphy, he came out a few years ago.
    I think he won the award for most popular newsreader for lip-readers years ago, which was unusual because he had a moustache and beard!


    Newsreaders generally have lovely, neutral accents, the late Don Cockburn was another one I'd have listened to reading the phone book.


    But top of the pile for me is Brendan Keneally, the poet.


  • #84
    [Deleted User]
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    Cillian Murphy has a nice deep tone.


  • #85
    Dakota Dan
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Cillian Murphy has a nice deep tone.

    Another false ear grating accent, he couldn’t even drop it for that disaster of a film, the wind that shakes the barley.


  • #86
    the purple tin
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    John Kelly


  • #87
    [Deleted User]
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    Dakota Dan wrote: »
    Another false ear grating accent, he couldn’t even drop it for that disaster of a film, the wind that shakes the barley.

    Would that be the same film that dared to show that Dublin didn't single handedly defeat the British?


  • #88
    LilacNails
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    Pat shortt in character.. . Maybe not nice but always gets my attention


  • #89
    completedit
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    D4 is awful but a toned down one is not bad but only on a girl. It sounds so childish imo and I have the accent(sort of)


  • #90
    Dakota Dan
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Would that be the same film that dared to show that Dublin didn't single handedly defeat the British?

    I can't remember now but it was directed by Ken Loach, he had people acting in it that never even set foot in a cinema their entire lives.


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  • #91
    ExMachina1000
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    Des Bishop or Shane Ross


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