The Irish

A lot of that accent sounded like a (bad, obv) impersonation of the Ross O'Carroll-Kelly types. Though there are many shining strands of green shite woven through it, of course.

http://www.uni-due.de/IERC/index.html

idk despite the differences apparent when listened consecutively, i think i could only really parse dublin/non-dublin and ulster, the one from the southeast sounds enough like connaught accents i have heard etc

to actual irish ppl, how many regional accents could you identify? i don't think it has quite the variety of england, which is a dificult comparison due to relative size, but then as someone who has never been to scotland i can still tell glasgow from teuchter or east of scotland

How many? I can tell you if a man's father came from bunnacurry or dugort

the variation over tiny distances is pretty remarkable

maybe so but extreme localization highlights effects and mutations which cannot take place at a more regional level, like if the priest of dugort pronounces a word a certain way and everyone else in the village follows

could you tell a cork accent from a kerry one?

Definitely. I'd say the ones highlighted on that map are all fairly distinct. The midlands is a lottery

this also made apparent how much middle class dublin accents resemble middle class home counties accents

Cork and kerry lol thats not even a shared language. Carlow can be a little northern sounding, i dont pick up much accent from the south east corner, and the north (six counties) sounds much the same to me. Midlands is a melting pot but there's discernible differences p much in every county for those that know em im sure

Cant get to this atm but will try later on

yeah i am told that cork and cobh are quite discernable which i'm sure is true, but the extent is probably exagerrated by narcissism of small differences and you'll find some locals insisting that cobh is actually closer to a korean accent than cork

North or south?

As an outsider, Darragh seems otm to me. Cork is unique, I can pick up several Midlands accents but the s/e and north seem to have fewer variations. Could be because I spend all my time in the Midlands though.

this also made apparent how much middle class dublin accents resemble middle class home counties accents

no

I don't think you can really tell from this, I agree with Darragh on the differences.

When I was in the Coleraine area as a cloth-eared English oppressor I found the local accent a lot softer than the Belfast one, but it's hard to pick up any major differences from the clips on the site

slightly intrigued by this being on a German university website (I have visited that university! not the bit the author's at, though)

this also made apparent how much middle class dublin accents resemble middle class home counties accents

Are you from north America? I have a fairly canonical middle class Dublin accent, and I've only ever been mistaken me for an Englishman by people who hailed from the USA.
Regarding the soundfiles, I'd bet good money that the lady who's tagged as a Finglas resident didn't grow up there.

the variation over tiny distances is pretty remarkable

^ this. I used to know a New Zealander who once remarked to me that in her homeland, everybody sounded exactly the same, regardless of where in the country they came from. She marvelled that in Ireland, every time you move a couple of miles, people seem to sound completely different.

big difference between a flat low tipperary and slightly whiney limerick accent even

Bah. For "mistaken me for", read "mistaken for".

that's a good solid mayo accent, 'yard' in particular would peg him as rural castlebar area tbh

yerman from connemara couldn't give fuck uimhir a h-áon tbh

limerick (and i'm not picking fights my limerick ppl) is an awful accent)

this would work a lot better, i think, were it a coherent paragraph with longer sentences- no flow to it, which really takes away from the music of idk kerry, cork and donegal accents

i agree, the limerick accent is awful

thankfully i dont have one

lol now i look at it, they didn't even bother with midlands- otm

the mid-ulster one is p much donegal again? v much what dmac sounded like in 1994 fwiw, more so than the actual donegal one. best accent obv.

drogheda would rival limerick if it weren't so comical, i mean how do you talk like that naturally.

dublin 1 d14

dublin 2 more d4

v much the oar tee ee one that

cork accent is the best tbh. waterford accent is probably worse than a limerick accent

im very excited to know what darragh sounds like

hmm they've pulled out of the dublin one a bit? there no reeeeeel dubs in it imo

darragh how would u pronounce 'viking'

who in terms of famous ppl has the platonic ideal of dublin accents

robbie keane seems pretty real

i have one sample of my voice, i am reading a christmas story to my toddler niece cos i was dumb enough to by her abook with push button sound effects- eventually (after the first 50 encores) it made sense to just give her a recording

well i mean what is a dublin accent tho

robbie's is real, but then so's is miriam o'callaghan

the third dublin one is quite good, i spose- northside but not panto

i like the waterford one, reminds me of reeling in the years or hands or one of those programmes

she doesn't sound unlike a lower achill woman tbh

pollagh, specifically

not messing i'm near sure i know the woman reading the first dublin accent

mayo one is slightly spoiled due to his eehhh difficulty reading words

idk if this'll work but

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/818963/Sound%20clip%2028.mp4

Limerick one very much minded on value for money, the quicker you get through it the quicker someone will give you a fiver.

it works and you sound great!

idk is it representative but it's def what i sound like after brandy while performing so thanks

Sounds good - a bit mellower and a lot less bitter than I'd imagined, but good. A wdysl is a whole lot weirder than a wdyll though, for some reason.

i'm never all that happy with either, obv brandy working for me re mellow/bitter tbh