Irish accents..

CDj-Rossi said:
I noticed this when I went seeing my mates at Uni in Livepool. LOADS of Irish people living there on their campus, was quite weird!
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Yeah lots of Irish here, you notice them especially when you goto Anfield to watch a game. When I worked in the hospital I worked with 2 irish women, a scot and a geordie haha.

Most Liverpool families have a certain degree of Irish in them. My fathers family traced our ancestry to a specific village (cant remember the name at the moment.) My name Melia is derived from O'Malley which was changed during the potato famine when mass immigration overwhelmed Liverpool and so many of the Irish where sent back to Ireland and abandoned. So they changed their name to Melia to hide the Irish connection.

Also my grandfather (mothers side) had an Irish accent and his parents came over from Ireland after WW1.
 
jas72 said:
When you find yourself saying "does be" instead of "is" then you'll know you've been there too long. I'm considered from N. Ireland when i'm home in Scotland now and have even been called a northerner in Dundalk even though when stood next to someone from N. Ireland I sound totally different.

and yes I have to agree Irish accents are sexy on women ;)
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Lol i hate it when i start saying things like everyone else up here, i have to don my appalling fake northern accent shouting "hai but like" at the end of everything...

On the real topic, there are some HOT accents over here (north and south) but theres an art to avoiding the horrible innercity scum bag ones (or the ones far too incomprehensible for any human to think its language) :cool:
 
gurusan said:
not ever seen this.... Where Americans call themselves Irish, Italian, Chinese, whatever....are in tightly knit communities of racially similar people.

Go into these places in America and it feels like a different country ...They will all call themselves american but they also recognize their ancestry and still feel connected to it.

Why some people have to look down on that is beyond me.
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Fair enough if they are actually decended from these people or live in such groups. I think what is being said here is that many Americans that are probably from England or other places in Europe originally like to all think they are from Ireland or have some Irish blood in them because it is seen as "cool" by other people. (possibly because of StPatricks day and getting drunk is cool yo). No one is saying it isn't good to be proud of your heritage.


anyway, back to the OP. I have experienced this in reverse. there is a guy at work who is from Ireland and he sounds American a lot of the time. I have 2 other Irish friends (south) that don't sound like him at all.
 
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The only thing I wish I'd inhereted from my father is the accent, love Irish accents, and Geordie accents, it's worth moving to newcastle/ireland just to meet a girl with that accent, that way I wouldn't care how much she talked ;)
 
Reminds me of when I was a student in London, took a part time job in McD's to make ends meet, serving on the till one day a woman said to me "I bet you don't have these problems in your McDonald's at home" when I replied that we didn't have McD's in Norn Iron she admitted that she thought I was American - it was very strange.
 
Kinda related to the OP:
My girlfriend is Northern Irish but has English parents so she has bit of an odd accent and more often than not when she meets a new person they ask where in America shes from.
 
Capn' $qu!ff said:
The Irish a great bunch 'o' lads and ladies! :D
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I agree :D

There are some good Irish accents (I would propose that mine is one of them but apparently my accent is extremely weird and doesn't fit in with the surrounding populace) and then there are some woeful ones (Cork and Dublin spring to mind followed by Derry and Belfast in the North)
 
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