Guide to Irish Accents 

Or how many pints you've had LoL

Five miles ahah Belfast and everywhere near it sounds completely different

Not only that but about every twenty years so that a person that is 40 sounds very different from a person who is 20 years old.

Brendan Kri yup the person next to me sounds different they sound like a scot even tho there great great grandparents up till him are irish

Jennie Pleasant Laughed that loud i woke my family up 😂👌

sarah byrne shhaarr isnn't caaaarrrrrk the most beaauuuutiful plaaaace in tge world

Jesus bai cark is some dacent place

Eveyone under this comment is cracking me up 😂😂

Shani C lol right

sarah byrne I also meant you but forget i said anything mate .. 😐😑😒

There's the north of Ireland lad

@@Ben-cx5qp So true man, so true

D'you know what I mean, LIKE?

There’s one Ireland. 🇮🇪

northern ireland it’s called but okay

Oml so true 😂

Cark

As a cork person, totally correct

@@arborealmole8079 sup, I'm from Mallow

Westmeath: cUrk

I wonder how different the accents are when the Irish talk with their original Celtic-like language.

@@StrangerHappened you mean when Irish people speak in Irish?

@@countdoowho7183 Indeed, I mean actual Irish, not Irish English. I can not find a video about the accents.

@@StrangerHappened it's mostly just that certain endings of words are silent or pronounced depending on where you're from. Take, for example, the word 'chuaigh'. In some parts of ireland, the gh at the end is silent, but in other parts its not silent. It's mostly just stuff like that, as well as vowels being pronounced differently (such as Cork people saying 'Cark', but apply that to Irish words).

@@Sean_B123 Cool, thanks. It is a rare knowledge.

My Irish teacher says that wow

I’m literally watching this to find out what accent I got since I sound so different from the rest of my family

Come on mayo

😩😂😂

꧁༺ Daily༻꧂ what part of Ireland is he from do you know?

Thanks

Thanks lad

Agreed

Thanks

thank you

Aw that sounds really interesting, I'd love to watch a class like that!

Up the Rebels!

Same💀😂

@@hollie9990 same

Same 😁

He sounds exactly like my Vice Principal XD

RIP

Eibhlín Murphy I feel you hun, I'm an O'Callaghan and i just recently met my relatives from Cork for the very first time, and i literally had no bloody clue what they were saying 😅😂 I'm also a Brisbane girl born and bread, how are you liking Australia so far? ☺

Jaysus count yourself lucky. No offense to ya but a Caaark and Kiorraí accent on a woman is an absolute mare. No man could put up with it. Australian now is a fine accent for a young wan to have fair deuces

Yeah been born and bred a dub then moved to Sydney 6 years ago and I still get slagged

Surprised your relatives by hiding in the bush for 20 years and hanging around bogan people in country towns will unpronounceable names. (Ireland and Wales have worse name, like wtf is Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch). It would be a nightmare speaking to them with their rich Irish accent from cork or Kelly with your severe bogan central Australian accent that uses every opportunity to shorten a word a made up slang

I know ur pain

Yes, yes you are ....

@@RD-xq9bs You're a joke

Mayo 4 Sam!

West of Ireland is Brooklyn.

Yes we are actually

Thanks! I did the voices and as a northside dub that means a lot! : D

John Sharpson- Yer man who does the voices I knew I recognised your voice on this !!

Same

nay it was over the top

the cork city lower class accent is impossible to understand. the cork COUNTY lower class is easier to understand. but i do wish we irish, north and south, would slow downa bit when we open our gobs to say something. pity they don't teach elocution. obviously, the lower classes would have not interest in it but the other social classes would. if onlythey could speak b.b.c. english with an irish lilt instead of an irish working class brogue.

Ya mean your pint

😂😂😂

i was just about to commment this lol top o' shemorhnin tae yaueh

Ah shure y not

Yep.

Me

OH MY GOD I AM HERE HOW DID YOU PREDICT THAT AMIN WOOAH WHAT THE FUCK

Dramapony says that with a fucking pony as your pp

this video is greatly wrong , telling you as an Irish man , especially the northern irish one. and the west one and the southern one , the only one he got somewhat right was the dublin one.

Dramapony I'm here because I took the Accent analyzer quiz from Cambridge or was it Oxford, and they said my accent was Athlone. I'm from the U.S.

Dramapony Why? Just get an Irish actor in

When I first heard Cillian Murphy doing his own accent, I presumed he was just putting in on. lol. I used to think he was American. What a dumb dumb.

Lol I found u on yt

That's cuz it's a fucking cork accent...

Joe you're a twat mate

Joe Fitzgerald BILLY

Who jock

hes from athlone

someone mentioned something about jacksepticeye and where he was from and i replied to their comment but ithink youtube fucked itself and put me comment here

no grime about it like. don't worry mate

Gatsby you’re irish lad, don’t start inventing places now

Love the Northern accent mate it sounds class. And yer varied!

Ye be from one of the 7 occupied counties maybe but still Ireland. I can hear differences - some diphthong some don’t etc

@@rebeccafjamieson 7 occupied counties ?did we suddenly gain another one since 1921.

@@ziggyplunkett2182KR, it’s fatdad Fermanagh Antrim Tyrone Derry Armagh Down Edit: or lad if you say Londonderry, I don’t really mind either tbh

Conor Byrne And kildare

And Mayo

Lisa Murphy Mayo seems like the DLC nobody bought, hahaha but yeah how can you forget the wesht

what about tipp where theres buher and waher instead of butter and water

Richard Donaldson lol don't forget sausage

Vincent van goghs Ear lobe 🤣🤣🤣

@Vincent van goghs Ear lobe You should have told her , where you were from ( LOL )

***** HAHAHA

Well listen 'ere bud, your a ma is right fecking muppeh.

LELEL

soooooooooo true thanks 4 saying we dont ALL talk da same and in cork deres alot of dis dat dese and dose 2 + what about da likes 4 great cork . u no tis da real capital of Ireland booooy ( cork thing iis da biggest county so duh real capital 2 us)

*mammy

The cork accent sounds like the Scouse accent

​@@thebuddyholly No it does not!

Excuse me it's pronounced "Bai"

Get ur Irish culture right

Kairk wahs vairy akurahte bai

Sure was

+HayforHorses and I lived in Kerry lol

I'm from California, but I went to the South this past summer to spend time with my family. Sometimes people said things that made me scratch my head. Like how to pronounce "Senoia" - and I met locals who didn't agree on how to pronounce it. So don't feel bad, we have the same problems here in the US. And we stereotype each other's accents just as much we do the Irish.

***** yes I did I was just adding to what I said I am not that dumb

I was born in cork and moved to Kerry

+HayforHorses I must have an ear for accents, because I understood every word you just said.

Ginja Ninja fuck sake, ik. I was in Waterford waiting in a chipper and some guy started talking to me. I actually couldn’t understand what he was saying and im Irish

Can confirm, Cork is barely intelligible.

Fair play with the Ulster thing we do sound a wee bit Scottish

I'm from donegal and I don't think i sound scottish

@@papaputinandthenukefactory49 do we?

That's really interesting. I chatted at length with an Australian from Perth about accents, and she said the same as you... that she can fly over to Cairns and the accent is the same. As an English person from a minuscule country compared to Oz, I find this unfathomable. I mean, I'm from London and I can tell a West Londoner from a South Londoner. Subtly different, but still different.

​@@daggersdukcDiversity of english accents in britain makes me confused.I 'm Turk.Same dialect is spoken in large area in my country.Such as, all west black sea region speak same.Or almost all central anatolia speak same.But you brits have a lot of different dialects

+stephan haggerty Also, never say "top 'o the mornin to ye", ask for "carbombs" in pubs and display any plastic paddyness.

+Mister Shledge Has an Irish person ever said "top 'o the mornin to ye"?

Never unless it's ironic. Most places usually have a variation of "well, what's the craic?"

Yeah, that is a common misconception in the likes of the US/Canada. "Craic" is basically just Irish for "fun", but most people there weirdly assume we legitimately say "top o' the mornin to ye" instead :I There are even weirder variations. Dublin for example tends to say "story bud?" (pronounced "staary"). I just tend to say "well", "any craic?" or "hello" if I'm unfamiliar.

+Mister Shledge As far as the "carbomb" thing, I personally find dropping a likely filthy shot glass into my stout to be a disgusting idea and since most Guinness served in the US is almost always this fake disgusting muck actually made in Canada under license and isn't drinkable even if it was served at proper temperature instead of freezing cold as it generally is, it's all best avoided.

Really?

Tá tú fógraí

+Cannibal potato lesbian mar go bhfuil tú prátaí

Níl fhios agat? Oh mo dhia-

you literally have a translate button and its not working for me

It's spelled 'biy' cmon biy get it right!

+Greg Dawe The first time I met a Newfie (after moving from Vancouver to Calgary), I actually asked him if he was from Ireland. There's a lot of similarity in the pronunciation and melody of speaking. Cool stuff!

my brother went traveling and was staying in a hostel with other travelers: americans and a canadian guy from new found land! But when they went drinking and everyone was locked my brother was the only person who could understand the canadian and he had to translate what he said to everyone else hahah

Hardly any Scots migrated to Newfoundland. They all settled further south down in the Maritimes. Newfoundland is mainly all Irish and English (southwest England) with pockets of French and Scots.

Presumably in Nova Scotia then?

Yeah but he didn't go into northside, southside, down the country like and so on, be grateful he did the usual exaggerated city accent favoured by actors. Phew! My home by the Lee🤗

Tis why we're so green

Weeabo dedicated

Yep, I’m in the north

KyaLeWolfNeko it rain way more if your living not even 100 meters away from the atlantic

KyaLeWolfNeko YASS

Farmer Michael has that covered

Me too, that's where I'm from

I’m from Galway too Céard faoi Gaillimh

I wished that they had covered the west in general

I live across from Farmer Michaels house

I still find it hilarious how there's a good portion of irish that can point out the exact area you're from/what accent and then there's me, who went local shop and got asked where I'm from, insinuating I'm American or out of county..... I live down the road.... lol

Lol I came for that

SweetSirenia yeah.... even those from wildest Kerry can be stumped by that errrr dialect to be polite

I’m a mayo-man gene wise, but grew up in England and have a very... ‘Articulate’ accent, and whenever I go to meet my relatives I’m just like... sorry what? Erm.....? Could you repeat that? Sorry one more time? And then just end up nodding and pretending I completely understood what they said.

SweetSirenia Connacht and the middle of Ireland are irrelevant tbh

Nobody gives a shite about Connacht.

Good. The key to being a good Corkonian is being as different to the Dublin wastrels as possible :D

Um thanks? I disagree but ok

@Gerard20j if you have an English accent fuck you

Ah cmon mate they cant be that good

@@ruadhanduffy3361 What- why are you assuming an Irish person has an English accent?? Bit random-

@@fabplays6559 he edited it but he said that he had an english accent

Do you lads even know what a low pitch is?

@Thicc Boi you're a bit rude

Indeed indeed

Rofl.

markog1999 - years ago on the ancient radio eireann, most, if not all, the announcers were from cork and they had that inter-county type of accent. or even a stateless accent, if you like. they spoke very, very well. i wish we still had them instead of some thick fucking brogues you get on some radio stations. when they talk, they do not pause at the comma or full stop. and people in the west of ireland tend to turn three syllables into two syllables. they also turn two syllables into three syllables. they are not the type of people who would be reading this, assuming they can read at all. we have over 200 million ILLLITERATES on this planet.

***** I thought Jack didn't have a wikipedia!?

+Nat Cat I had one but the cat threw up on it.

He's from Athlone

I looked at Jack's Wikipedia and apparently he's from Athlone, WestMeath

+Nat Cat Hes from Offaly

I'm from the falls, I was once asked what part of east Belfast I was from because I had to slow down my speech in Monaghan town!

Wait till ye get to Tyrone and the country were a mix between all of the accents 🤣🤣

Holly McKibbin I’m in County Armagh, I’m in the south, the north sounds very different. 😂

Well.... He did say it was generalisation like lol

NI is a different country with a lot of varying British accents found within. From Londonderry to Belfast.

it's written craic in Ireland

+Ballymenablues are there a lot of slang terms that come from Gaelic? Kind of like how the Brits says "smashing" which came from "s' math sing(sp?)" which I think translates to "that's great".

yeah, if your not from Ireland it does sound bad. and we spell it craic to differentiate it

+Caoimhe C. We don't spell it craic to differentiate it, and it's not slang, craic is just the gaelic translation of fun.

After moving to Ireland from America...I heard an advert on the radio while driving where they were giving away a Million Euro bag of Craic....oh how I wanted to crank call that radio station pretending to be a crack head...

its entertainment.. does the best ones.. would become dull if he did every boreen

Yeah Fermanagh woulda been a good one

Possibly because it’s an animated video? Animation is very hard work and perhaps they intended to go through every areas accent but stopped early due to how much work that would take. It probably took a week for someone to make this almost 3 minute long video. Or maybe they just covered the accents the guy could imitate.

Also coleraine/ballymoney/ARMAGH/Derry or Londonderry/ antrim/garvagh etc etc. The list goes on and on...😂

@@sc1837 Where did I say that they needed to do every boreen?? I get that he could only do one or two accents per region (North, South, East and West) my point was they totally missed out the West completely! It's not just a boreen, it's a whole chuck of Ireland, almost the entire Province of Connaught!!! Also, it's not just entertainment, it's supposed to be educational in an entertaining way.

Do you ever just burst out laughing while hearing some of the weirder Irish accents or are you guys used to it?

RonMD I'm very much used to it, I hear it all the time.

Bam Itz Millie Yeah, that was silly of me to ask. You'd probably have the same reaction to my accent :)

RonMD Why, where are you from?

Russia :)

James Taylor agreed

Ye me too

me too

Im from the Midlands, and we just sound flat as hell and Longford''s accent is like the WORST EVER. AND Kildare is just flat version of The Dublin accent, like Louth, only not as bad?!!!

Merlin Morgan hmmm I really like Midlands accents. Kildare, Athlone, Longford all sound good to me. I'm not that fond of a Kerry accent though.

+coolenaam My Da's Kildare and his isnt as bad as most!!! my accent is murderous, its just flat it has no substance but I tell you Kinnegad has an accent of its own and its in the midlands. its like dublin kildare and westmeath put together!!!!

Sounds good :) I need to visit Ireland again soon.

Galway accents are so neutral it's hard to explain

To be honest the accent isn't really tied to the border. I'd say if you heard about North Monaghan man or Donegal person you'd think they were from the north and if you heard a South Armagh person you'd think they were from the republic.

We in Dublin say Howza Goin or Howya, or Wats da stawry. You say Well, hi abite yee or wats da sitchiyashun?

I'm from Belfast, and when i was down in Dublin a few years ago someone asked me where in Scotland i was from

im from southern dublin and i can attest that this is spot on. for 90% of everyone else in south dublin that i know at least

It's 9/10 but 1) I think he's basing it on a more effeminate individual than most 2) the 'spec' in 'especially' should use the same vowel sound he uses in 'forever' and 3) people from Belfast wouldn't say 'Scottish' that way (but some other areas in NI would, same as the 'especially').

Yah the northern Ireland is right(I know cause most of my mum's side is from Belfast)

Sarah Kane? 😂

SarahK you aren’t from Belfast 😂😂

+claire hillis Everywhere in Ireland. The accent changes every few metres.

I no my cousins are from Northern Ireland

+claire hillis So true, on my road alone there are three different accents XD

+claire hillis i swear there must be over a hundred northern Irish accents

Same within Belfast itself. I give my ex a bit of stick for her Belfast accent, but any attempt at mimicry is meet with a retort that I'm using a Falls Rd accent while she's from Newtownabbey just off the north of the city. I'm not sure of the difference, but a kid on her estate asked if I was from Scotland with my apparent neutral N Irish accent.

Ahh not really south meath is a north Dublin accent and north meath is a south Cavan accent.

sounds like a neutral dublin accent, kinda in between the 2 he spoke about

Darragh Stanton Nice. Thanks 👍

@a mess I think he is Dublin ( north side )

Non "scangar" north side dublin. Basically not from the sketchy area of the Northside, but not necessarily posh north side.

@@svendinsvinderlin4569 he sounds like non posh southsiders, they don’t all sound like the accent he put on

that a reference to a Irish group of singers called the rubber bandit best known for their song horse outside and black man in my gang

Don't forget their 1916 documentary, that was really something.

Mark Mahony the rubber bandits

Mark Mahony they're the rubberbandits. Ye should watch horse outside. It's pure class boy

FELLAS is even better.

lmaooo yesss

Lmao me

I had to come here as he ended before even giving Norn Iron a chance, wasn't disappointed. Although east and west Belfast sound different and Lisburn where I’m from is different again. You really can’t go 5 miles without the accent changing at least once.

So true like the kerry girl in his vid who was bloody english . A Corkonian who has lived here all my life but sound a little British/American . Dont sound Irish at all!

Man I'm from feckin Northern ireland but I sound more southern than northern XD, overall tho, good lord Cork actually killed me 🤣

No, theres loads of the country he left out that sounds different to these accents.

Joseph O'Connor You do realise "to hell or to connacht" was used as a way of saying Connacht is like hell. My dad is from Mayo and he said thats what they said about the land in the west its so bad its like hell which is why the english took the north because it had the best land.

ThisIsAChannel It was when Cromwell was over taking hold of the Irish land for the english, they were basically told fuck off to Connacht because we own this and yes land quality is much poorer in the west in comparison the the rest of Ireland.

'To hell or to Connacht' was that you could either go to 'hell' meaning that you'd be killed or to the boggy land in Connacht that the British didn't want for plantation.

Jade Lam your all wrong. At that time the British had prisons in Tasmania Island, Australia. So Hell was basically prison in the other side of the world. You would never see your family again. Ever.

county down wuh bout you?

+Average Alien Dublin💪🏽

Wexford. 👍

ulster ftw 😂👌

You're from Ireland ;)

Correct

The accent in Ireland changes every 5 miles

Adel Saad what does a LIbyan see In Ireland? Surely you would feel.very out of place being such a different culture and weather.

Yes there are a lot of Scottish and Irish descendants on the eastern part of Canada or at least labrador and newfoundland, and nova scotia

I heard that many Newfoundlanders have ancestors from around Waterford & Wexford. [EDIT: Apparently that may apply to a certain part of Newfoundland, whereas perhaps a different part of Newfoundland had more people from Cork (I don't know).]

Stacie J I've never heard anyone do a good Irish accent

Conor Rooney unless your from Ireland like myself

Emer Peglar im from the north n i use like in nearly every sentence 😹the majority up here do as well lol

Ye would fit well in south Wales..they use it every other word like..there I go usin' it..😄

bbonner422 you mean there’s Americans that are ACTUALLY Irish? A US tourist found out I’d lived in skibereen and was on me like fly on shite all night gassing about his great great granny. Mind you I got a fair few pints out of it!

The cork accent sounds like a Jamaican trying to speak French.

Matthew Cashman fuck you prick

@Makeup Love Don’t worry , You will be able to understand the accent . Kerry and Irish people are generally very friendly and will go out of their way to help you ..

Aww man. More homework? I'd love to watch a video that showed that.

It's not boy! The way that we say it is bye!

Thanks, Kate O Connor . I'm back in Ireland again next month so I'll try it out, hopefully I don't offend anyone.

+El Mo Be *bai

+Life Is Ours If you got 3 wishes, the Leprechaun had just fooled you :)

+Life Is Ours practice and you'll have one.

At sure jasus would yeh ge ouh liek

+Life Is Ours I'll take the "poshest" English accent I can get, thank you.

+Life Is Ours If I had three wishes, I'd first want a bottle of whisky that never empties. Then I'd want two more.

what does sstyaaayyrts mean? some people in county tibbredd awron pronounce Paul as ... paw-ell. and other place names with two syllables get pronounced as one syllable. and one syllable names get .... two syllables. the mind sure does boggles, does it not?

***** 'styaaayyrts' means 'starts', as in hillstarts (driving)

Cavan is too fucking miserable

Naaaaaaaaaavan

DancingPotatoe16 jaysus I was waitin for someone to go naaavan

More Waterford /S.E.Tipperary.

+Outworld It was a generalisation of all of the variations of the Northern Irish accents. Notice the west has no representation. Every county in Ireland has a very different accent, but we'd be here for days if we tried to do all of them.

+Outworld You're right, our accents are far worse. :P

+Outworld being from ireland, every accent he did was spot on. also every accent has variations effected by a person's character.

+ISHKA yeah but take like the Derry accent its very different from the belfast. There is no general northern irish accent. People who think that know nothing

+MunkeyBeans1082 *affected

ii Redz because the western accent is so neutral

And apparently all of us in the north sound the same

Conor O'Reilly ye cuz yer not even irish like yer english

Oh my God you're right. No wonder it sounded familiar to me. I used to watch that show all the time when it came on late at night back in the 90s.

+The Movie Dealers Not all of south dublin

+irishlad76 I think when most Americans think of an Irish accent, they think of that Southern, County Cork one as noted in the video. Probably because thats the one that would be displayed all the time in American movies and TV shows when they wanted to show an explicitly Irish character -- see Chief OHara from the Batman TV Series. Saints preserve us, Commissioner Gordon!!!

+The Movie Dealers do you mean MR MAGOO !!? I actually didn't catch GILLIGAN's island til later and fondly remember GINGER lots of gingers in IRELAND alright off topic yes people in MASSACHUSETTS have a similar sound to them form what you describe CHEERS boi!!

+Kunkka Yea I talk nothing like the south Dublin accent demonstrated in the vid neither does anyone I know :\

As a fellow Republican I'm sure you were also annoyed the North's counties weren't outlined.

+Dominic Hanson I agree tere from de uk

Nadine Curtis Nadine Curtis, is there a more loyalist name than that? I doubt it

Yes thank you and I'm from Tyrone too

Hell I'm from Belfast and we sound nothing like his interpretation (': generalising and exaggeration to the max here

Why did he refer to Cork as 'the people's republic of Cork' ?

its boi :)

Many Irish people were brought by the British empire to colonise Jamaica (not sure about the other islands )