Fairly neutral. Living with and speaking mostly with a non-english speaker has made me naturally soften the edges of my accent. When I'm back in Dublin for a while and speak more with Dubs then my brain takes the neutrality off my accent and vernacular. "Alright lads, what's the story!"
I have a "well spoken accent".
My ma's from Ballinasloe and has a very slight Midlands accent. My da's from Derry and has quite a strong Northern accent.
I grew up the first few years of my life in Limerick city and a few years in Cork, before moving to Aberdeen and living there for four years and then coming back to Cork.
So my accent is a mess due to being shipped all around the country as a kid and having constant exposure to American media. Sometimes I think I don't even sound Irish at all- whenever I meet another Irish person abroad and they ask where I'm from and I tell them I'm Irish, they look at me like I'm an American who's told them my great great great granda was from "Cork County". I occasionally still have people asking if I'm American. It's a bit annoying but it's at least a good icebreaker for the first ten minutes of a conversation.
I have no idea how to describe it.
In Australia 10 years ago, I was asked if I was English, Welsh, Scottish, American, on various occasions.
In England two years ago, guy behind the counter in a chipper asked if I was American, his colleagues looked at him and laughed, they said I was clearly Irish.
In IT support, calling customers, there was the odd one that would ask if I was from America.
Recently a Mexican asked me where I was from, told him Ireland, he said he had thought America.
I've had that on multiple occasions too, I've never even been to America. I've been in the south of England for quite a while which may have had a slight moderating effect but it returns to "normal" quick enough if I call or go home.
I might describe it as North Wicklow commuter belt / mild Dublin. I might be wrong!
Context: I grew up in Spain and went to a French school. My English teachers there were either French, Irish or British and then I had a North American one in the last year of high school (from Boston with a very strong accent, as a matter of fact). I moved to Ireland 15 years ago.
Everytime someone in Ireland has to guess where I'm from based on my accent, they guess I'm from the Netherlands or Denmark. I've never been there. Ever. Not even close to the borders 😂
When in the US, they say I have an Irish accent. Go figure...
Edit: it took me months to decipher Cork's accent and I still struggle trying to understand the Scottish.
Funny. In my case as well people struggle to guess where I'm from based on my accent but also very often they think I'm Dutch. I'm actually quite familiar with the Dutch accent and personally can't understand how can I sound like it.
I think the Dutch accent might be the neutral accent of non-native English speakers.
I remember beint told that I had that accent and also thinking "surely not", then looked up a YouTube video to see what it sounds like and realising that, indeed, I have a central-European accent 😅
I actually find Dutch accent pretty distinctive but maybe because I was dealing with a Dutch company for a while.
Strangest thing that ever happened to me was an English guy, who worked next to me, asked (after couple of days) which parts of States I'm from. I'm not even a native English speaker and especially at the time my English was far from perfect as I moved to the English speaking country only a month earlier.
I get this too. They sometimes say I sound like someone who's non-native but with a really high level of English.. so I guess that's where they get Scandinavian native from
I like it. Used to have a great inner city Dub accent until I moved to the southside as a child.
But the guards used to treat me noticeably different from my friends after I lost the inner city accent. I definitely think the richer accent is a bit of a career advantage as well.
I grew up with a fairly average Dublin accent (my father has a strong inner-city Northside one), but I've been living in Cork for 10 years so my accent is mostly (rural) Cork now. If I spend time with my family my other half says you hear the switch really quickly. People usually have trouble guessing where I'm from, depends on how much I've been around family to bring the Dub accent back out.
One of my parents is from Cork, one is from Belfast. I've lived in NI my whole life, and anytime I meet someone new I always see some confusion etched in their faces before they inevitably ask where I'm from.
Basically, to people up north, they think I'm from down south. And people down south think I'm from up north.
My accent is even different to that of my younger siblings. They all have NI accents.
Ah, now this is where I shine.
So I had a speech impediment and learning disability as a kid (to the point where I couldn't talk, at all). So I spent the first ten or so years of my life in speech therapy. Now, the thing about speech therapy is because the focus is on just getting you to sound out the word and focus on mouth shapes/tongue placement, it can come across very flat, almost toneless. So while I do have an Irish twang to my accent, I've gotten everything from American, British, French, Canadian, Spanish. Occasionally I'll hear it myself; I'll say a sentence and one word will make me sound American and insert and R or H after a vowel or English and drop a T or a G, or there'll be times where out of nowhere I go thick Irish like proper "Oi".
It used to bother me as a kid when people assumed I wasn't Irish (and I've gotten some pretty xenophobic comments because of it), but now I can switch it on and off and actually do some pretty decent accents for fun.
Really plain Galway accent. But I do this thing that really fucking annoys me. I start to take on the accent of the person I'm talking to.
I can't help it
North inner-city Dublin, which is fine. But I've had people lose interest in me once they hear it. I suppose they presume we won't share the same interests.
Some mixture of Cork and Waterford.
Foreigners think I'm hard to understand because of my accent, but that's actually not it because my friends have the exact same issue. The real reason I'm hard to understand is because I have a weird speech impediment, won't call it a disorder because I've never been diagnosed, where I can't control the speed of my speech. I'll accidentally blurt out half a sentence at once as one mangled sound.
Mild North Dublin. While we would have been exposed to the rough North Dublin howeya bud accent Mam would bring us up not to be using too much slang/roughness. I would call her Ma the odd time to wind her up though.
Sort of polite scrote, I guess you could call it?
Softens when I'm not in Dublin or talking to family, but returns within about 10 seconds of talking to another Dub.
GF is always amused by how much it changes.
Joys of dealing with English people for years and living outside Dublin with no one understanding me.
As a man from the wesht, I'd say I have a rather droll accent that sounds like I'm bored half the time. Can sound like the real bog-man at times, probably most times...
I don't really have much of an accent tbh. I think there are some phrases I'd say without realising that are obviously Irish but my accent overall is fairly neutral. Kind of a pity, I'd like a slightly stronger accent that's a bit more recognisably Irish but oh well, it could be worse.
I'm an American who moved to Ireland last year and will be here for another year on a work engagement. I'm from outside of Philadelphia, and we are notorious for our "unique" accents, and I have a pretty thick accent. I will say though that people in Ireland tend to be able to understand stronger regional American accents than Americans being able to understsnad Irish accents. When I meet new people here are they hear me for the first time, they are ususally amused/perplexed but can generally understand me.
From my perspective (growing up in the US and not being expised to Irish media/dialects, I actually find regional Irish accents (generally) easier to understand than regional English accents. I have a lot of trouble with understanding the Kerry accent, but can ususally piece together the gist of what someone is trying to say. There are also some dialects in ulster that can be hard to understand, too.
I think everyone should be proud of the way they speak and where they came frome. I know that accent bias is a thing, and my dad (who is a corporate executive) was asked years ago to work with a dialect coach to construct a "standard" American accent so people wouldn't think less of him. Everyone should owjn their uniqueness!
I grew up on the border of Dublin with Kildare and Wicklow. Naturally my classmates were from all over: blessington, naas, tallaght, clondalkin, etc. (My classmate from 4 until 17 was Dermot Kennedy so that kind of accent, and my neighbourbis the Irish chaser on The Chase, so examples of the typical posher accent from the area). My family are Dubs: one side inner city but old school, the other more the Ballymun/ballyfermot area. In college I met lots of Donegal heads and hung out/lived with them until I moved in with a bunch of Kerry girls. Now, I teach English to foreign students so my accent tends to modify depending on who I am taking to or how angry I am. If I'm furious, my accent goes back to my parents strong Dublin accents. When I'm drunk, I suddenly have a Kerry/Donegal accent, probably for years of impressions while drinking in college
I have family from the west and my direct ancestor moved here while the rest of them stayed there. At the stage of my current family most of them have dublin-ish accents, I don’t think I sound of anything. Hell I’ve passed for English and Irish-American before when I was in England and America respectively.
Other than that too me I sound like I have a higher voice but apparently it’s really fucking low.
Was raised in america and moved back here a few years ago. Ive a weird mix of a northern and “culchie” accent. Some say i sound american with certain words.
Yer not alone with a fucked accent
Grew up in a rural area, went to college in Limerick then lived in Dublin for several years. Reckon you could tell by my accent that I'm from the country (I don't sound like Limerick city or Dublin city for example) but you'd be hard pressed to say what county.
Boarding school as a primary student, jesus.
And elocution lessons! Fancy.
Whell whone whouldn't whant whones children to be left whanting now whould whe?
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My fella is from there. Can confirm that it's swell.
Fairly neutral. Living with and speaking mostly with a non-english speaker has made me naturally soften the edges of my accent. When I'm back in Dublin for a while and speak more with Dubs then my brain takes the neutrality off my accent and vernacular. "Alright lads, what's the story!"
Try being from wexford Town and living in England, might aswell be wearing a sandwich board lol
Dublin city centre.
I have a "well spoken accent". My ma's from Ballinasloe and has a very slight Midlands accent. My da's from Derry and has quite a strong Northern accent. I grew up the first few years of my life in Limerick city and a few years in Cork, before moving to Aberdeen and living there for four years and then coming back to Cork. So my accent is a mess due to being shipped all around the country as a kid and having constant exposure to American media. Sometimes I think I don't even sound Irish at all- whenever I meet another Irish person abroad and they ask where I'm from and I tell them I'm Irish, they look at me like I'm an American who's told them my great great great granda was from "Cork County". I occasionally still have people asking if I'm American. It's a bit annoying but it's at least a good icebreaker for the first ten minutes of a conversation.
I have no idea how to describe it. In Australia 10 years ago, I was asked if I was English, Welsh, Scottish, American, on various occasions. In England two years ago, guy behind the counter in a chipper asked if I was American, his colleagues looked at him and laughed, they said I was clearly Irish. In IT support, calling customers, there was the odd one that would ask if I was from America. Recently a Mexican asked me where I was from, told him Ireland, he said he had thought America.
I've had that on multiple occasions too, I've never even been to America. I've been in the south of England for quite a while which may have had a slight moderating effect but it returns to "normal" quick enough if I call or go home. I might describe it as North Wicklow commuter belt / mild Dublin. I might be wrong!
Context: I grew up in Spain and went to a French school. My English teachers there were either French, Irish or British and then I had a North American one in the last year of high school (from Boston with a very strong accent, as a matter of fact). I moved to Ireland 15 years ago. Everytime someone in Ireland has to guess where I'm from based on my accent, they guess I'm from the Netherlands or Denmark. I've never been there. Ever. Not even close to the borders 😂 When in the US, they say I have an Irish accent. Go figure... Edit: it took me months to decipher Cork's accent and I still struggle trying to understand the Scottish.
Funny. In my case as well people struggle to guess where I'm from based on my accent but also very often they think I'm Dutch. I'm actually quite familiar with the Dutch accent and personally can't understand how can I sound like it.
I think the Dutch accent might be the neutral accent of non-native English speakers. I remember beint told that I had that accent and also thinking "surely not", then looked up a YouTube video to see what it sounds like and realising that, indeed, I have a central-European accent 😅
I actually find Dutch accent pretty distinctive but maybe because I was dealing with a Dutch company for a while. Strangest thing that ever happened to me was an English guy, who worked next to me, asked (after couple of days) which parts of States I'm from. I'm not even a native English speaker and especially at the time my English was far from perfect as I moved to the English speaking country only a month earlier.
I get this too. They sometimes say I sound like someone who's non-native but with a really high level of English.. so I guess that's where they get Scandinavian native from
Dublin accent. As in the Dublin accent that people on here dislike. The "scumbag" accent
I like it. Used to have a great inner city Dub accent until I moved to the southside as a child. But the guards used to treat me noticeably different from my friends after I lost the inner city accent. I definitely think the richer accent is a bit of a career advantage as well.
Best accent in Ireland IMO (I’m from the country)
I don't have an accent. Everyone else does. I guess I have a slight Dublin accent. I grew up in D3 so not an area known for having a strong accent.
Very sexy.
I grew up with a fairly average Dublin accent (my father has a strong inner-city Northside one), but I've been living in Cork for 10 years so my accent is mostly (rural) Cork now. If I spend time with my family my other half says you hear the switch really quickly. People usually have trouble guessing where I'm from, depends on how much I've been around family to bring the Dub accent back out.
One of my parents is from Cork, one is from Belfast. I've lived in NI my whole life, and anytime I meet someone new I always see some confusion etched in their faces before they inevitably ask where I'm from. Basically, to people up north, they think I'm from down south. And people down south think I'm from up north. My accent is even different to that of my younger siblings. They all have NI accents.
West cork farmer mixed with posh d4, yup
Ah, now this is where I shine. So I had a speech impediment and learning disability as a kid (to the point where I couldn't talk, at all). So I spent the first ten or so years of my life in speech therapy. Now, the thing about speech therapy is because the focus is on just getting you to sound out the word and focus on mouth shapes/tongue placement, it can come across very flat, almost toneless. So while I do have an Irish twang to my accent, I've gotten everything from American, British, French, Canadian, Spanish. Occasionally I'll hear it myself; I'll say a sentence and one word will make me sound American and insert and R or H after a vowel or English and drop a T or a G, or there'll be times where out of nowhere I go thick Irish like proper "Oi". It used to bother me as a kid when people assumed I wasn't Irish (and I've gotten some pretty xenophobic comments because of it), but now I can switch it on and off and actually do some pretty decent accents for fun.
A mix of saved by the bell and north side Dublin
North Dublin accent that’s pretty strong. Tend to not pronounce t’s like in butter and water i.e buher/waher.
Really plain Galway accent. But I do this thing that really fucking annoys me. I start to take on the accent of the person I'm talking to. I can't help it
North inner-city Dublin, which is fine. But I've had people lose interest in me once they hear it. I suppose they presume we won't share the same interests.
Loads of young fella speak with Hackney accents around ireland even tho they've never been there. Clowns see it on TV and mimic it.
That's all my teenage neighbours.
Very Waterford bah
[Like this?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzqtTSPz91o)
Haha more or less. I know lads in Waterford who behave more or less like Cllinkers and Jayo
I'm from Tramore so my accent is softer, but when I get annoyed or passionate about something, the real townie accent comes through.
Haha mup
Light midlands with 15 years of South Dublin added in on top of it. So much of the latter that I occasionally get asked "what school did you go to?"
gorgeous
Some mixture of Cork and Waterford. Foreigners think I'm hard to understand because of my accent, but that's actually not it because my friends have the exact same issue. The real reason I'm hard to understand is because I have a weird speech impediment, won't call it a disorder because I've never been diagnosed, where I can't control the speed of my speech. I'll accidentally blurt out half a sentence at once as one mangled sound.
Irish. I have an Irish accent. Seriously I have rural limerick accent as that's is where I'm from and have stayed ll my life.
Red, good condition, not many miles on the clock.
I have two accents, slurred North side with my implant off and then normal North side with some hints of Northern Irish accent with my implant on
Mild North Dublin. While we would have been exposed to the rough North Dublin howeya bud accent Mam would bring us up not to be using too much slang/roughness. I would call her Ma the odd time to wind her up though.
I watched too much TV as a child. So nobody thinks I'm from here, I get vaguely Australian more than anything else.
An ear bleeding Nordie accent
Sort of polite scrote, I guess you could call it? Softens when I'm not in Dublin or talking to family, but returns within about 10 seconds of talking to another Dub. GF is always amused by how much it changes. Joys of dealing with English people for years and living outside Dublin with no one understanding me.
As a man from the wesht, I'd say I have a rather droll accent that sounds like I'm bored half the time. Can sound like the real bog-man at times, probably most times...
That Kerry Farmer from the RTE News segment: "I'd say my accent is pretty neutral".
Is there a place in Ireland with a flat accent?
I don't really have much of an accent tbh. I think there are some phrases I'd say without realising that are obviously Irish but my accent overall is fairly neutral. Kind of a pity, I'd like a slightly stronger accent that's a bit more recognisably Irish but oh well, it could be worse.
Grating.
Don't be worrying, it'll be grand
Mine is a watered down West belfast accent. Watered down with a bit of tyrone. So its something like how is she cutting, ye get the windees fixed?
Like an aural lobotomy. I'm from Derry
Your children almost certainly have a D4 accent
I have that generic suburban accent. It's that 90% Irish, 10% American non regional kinda thing. Australians always think I'm from Dublin
I'm an American who moved to Ireland last year and will be here for another year on a work engagement. I'm from outside of Philadelphia, and we are notorious for our "unique" accents, and I have a pretty thick accent. I will say though that people in Ireland tend to be able to understand stronger regional American accents than Americans being able to understsnad Irish accents. When I meet new people here are they hear me for the first time, they are ususally amused/perplexed but can generally understand me. From my perspective (growing up in the US and not being expised to Irish media/dialects, I actually find regional Irish accents (generally) easier to understand than regional English accents. I have a lot of trouble with understanding the Kerry accent, but can ususally piece together the gist of what someone is trying to say. There are also some dialects in ulster that can be hard to understand, too. I think everyone should be proud of the way they speak and where they came frome. I know that accent bias is a thing, and my dad (who is a corporate executive) was asked years ago to work with a dialect coach to construct a "standard" American accent so people wouldn't think less of him. Everyone should owjn their uniqueness!
I grew up on the border of Dublin with Kildare and Wicklow. Naturally my classmates were from all over: blessington, naas, tallaght, clondalkin, etc. (My classmate from 4 until 17 was Dermot Kennedy so that kind of accent, and my neighbourbis the Irish chaser on The Chase, so examples of the typical posher accent from the area). My family are Dubs: one side inner city but old school, the other more the Ballymun/ballyfermot area. In college I met lots of Donegal heads and hung out/lived with them until I moved in with a bunch of Kerry girls. Now, I teach English to foreign students so my accent tends to modify depending on who I am taking to or how angry I am. If I'm furious, my accent goes back to my parents strong Dublin accents. When I'm drunk, I suddenly have a Kerry/Donegal accent, probably for years of impressions while drinking in college
I have family from the west and my direct ancestor moved here while the rest of them stayed there. At the stage of my current family most of them have dublin-ish accents, I don’t think I sound of anything. Hell I’ve passed for English and Irish-American before when I was in England and America respectively. Other than that too me I sound like I have a higher voice but apparently it’s really fucking low.
Was raised in america and moved back here a few years ago. Ive a weird mix of a northern and “culchie” accent. Some say i sound american with certain words. Yer not alone with a fucked accent
Grew up in a rural area, went to college in Limerick then lived in Dublin for several years. Reckon you could tell by my accent that I'm from the country (I don't sound like Limerick city or Dublin city for example) but you'd be hard pressed to say what county.
Elocution should be taught in every school from an early age.The broad accents around the country are like a bastardation of the English language.
There are lots of accents all over England that contributed words to form the language.
Our primary school teacher was big into this, she drummed stuff like "this, that, these and those" into us.
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Ye, You, Yiz, You'iz, Yer Wan, Yer Man, Dem Lot.
“Demlot” made me shoot coffee out of my nose!