Irish English - Dara O'Briain

This series was assembled by Pieter Groenendijk, student at the University of Sussex, for the course 'Practice of New Developments in Digital Media'.

In the project 'Global Dialects of the English Language', I attempt to map the journey of the English language throughout history, and the world.
This assemblage yields the following genuine dialects of English:

English English - Hugh Grant
Scottish English - Billy Connolly
Irish English - Dara O'Briain
New York English - Woody Allen
Welsh English - Joanna Page
Australian English - Steve Irwin
New Zealand English - Flight of the Conchords
South African English - Casper de Vries
Hong Kong English - Jackie Chan
Jamaican English - Bob Marley

Every viewer is encouraged to add their own real accents and comments.

The project map will be uploaded on:
http://www.pietergroenendijk.com/dialect_project/

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Pieter Groenendijk
• Global
• Dialects
• Dialect
• Accent
• World
• Accents
• English
• British
• Ireland
• Irish
• New Zealand
• South Africa
• South African
• University of Sussex
• Dara O'Briain

[bigmickdwyer]

This seems like a really interesting project, hope it goes well for you. On Dara's accent - I would interpret this as a very middle-class accent - in ireland there is a multitude of accents - even in dublin there are many . For example liberties, finglas, tallaght etc. But it's definately worth looking into. Best of luck with the work.

[omgitsthebeatles]

I dont understand why everyone says irish and scottish accents are hard to understand i understand it perfectly fine

[Carlosnava45]

@smileyj ¿Te das cuenta de lo penosos que son tus comentarios? Todo eso no es más que retórica barata para intentar reconocer una supuesta “identidad” irlandesa, diferente de la inglesa, pero la realidad parece bien clara: sea el acento que sea, el idioma es el mismo, es decir, inglés. De la lengua irlandesa, mejor no hablamos…

[kundimaharaj]

lol transcribing these videos is the most hilarious thing

[dazpatreg]

western accent is the most irish. look up 'hardy bucks'

[smileyj]

I am from Waterford which is in the south east of Ireland and I can assure you that there is no one "Irish accent", even in dublin there are two distinct accents. Probably of note would be the general northern accent, the cork accent and of course the dublin accents which are all very different.

[knight7fox2]

WOW!! slow down !

[paulscott2410]

Its funny im from Newcastle and for the last 2 years that I have been travelling, EVERYONE thinks im irish, not a geordie! The Irish accent has a twang and its very unique, its harder to understand Northern Irish accent than Republic! I think. (maybe it depends where they are from in the countries though)

[topsyish]

We used to call it Hiberno-English!