A dummies guide to speaking with an Irish accent - VIDEO

People do not believe me when I say I'm Irish as I cannot speak with an Irish accent for toffee (somehow I sound Welsh when I try)despite being born in Dublin, Ireland. My daughter thinks this is hilarous. (Oh look, I used an extra u)

''..Begorrah, sorr!, Would ye loike a drop o' da craythur''

The write is mistaken about 32 counties equals 32 accents. There are distinctive accents such as Cork and Kerry, and of course the Dublin accent; which I find harsh. Also the Donegal accent is distinctive. In much of the rest of the country the accents in my opinion are more regional. The northwest Cavan, and northwest Leitrim Sligo accent in may opinion are the same. And the northwest Cavan accent is different than the Cavan accent in the areas of Cavan close to Monaghan, The monaghan accent has much more north of Ireland accent if you will.

C'mere to me, that's the greatest load of ould bollix I've heard. Just because the Yanks can't spell or speak proper English, like dropping the 'u' or replacing the 's' with 'z' or 'ovah theah' doesn't mean diddly squat. Y'all need to learn the Queen's English, not a bastardisation of it!! sheeeeeshhhh then you could try with better effect, learning the Irish accent ..... bleedin furriners!!

LOL LOL LOVED IT ..

Grand altogether!

Gentlemen,gentlemen, arrah c'mere now, give over woudya?(GD, anto &sirpeter, I mean you, Dr T, Tx) Such verbal abuse is totally unnecessary in this intellectual debate.To develop a genuine Irish accent it is merely necessary to listen to The Late Late Show and/ or The Saturday Night Show on RTE.ie on a regular basis. Listen to the guests and not the hosts. You'll hear hear every accent from South to North over time and you can pick and choose who you'd like to sound like.

The best practice is to do what our resident fool sirpeter does. Ten or twenty times a day say "I'm a wacist, I'm a wacist'. Or better yet, say "I'm sirpeter, and I'm wacist scum"!

You forgot to mention the most annoying, irritating habit of saying T-sounds like "shhh". For example, it's not great, it's graysh!

What about the use of the word "craic"? Hear that one all the time!

Thanks Sirpeter, cheered me up, no end today...hehehe

You left out the use of "Brilliant." Absolutely essential. ... Many of us Americans - not all of Irish descent - use "Cheers" and "Right" (var: "Right there") in the way you describe. .. The Cheers thing seems to mutate abroad. As a child I used to look forward to the Christmas card from my Irish aunt in Australia: "Cheery Christmas Greetings," with a big bowl of summer flowers.

C'mere, emigration must be more prevalent than we thought if the population of the Emerald Isle has dropped to 4.5 million. Does this mean the 1.6 million living in Northern Ireland have all baled out or is the loss on both sides of the border? You must have been knackered when you did the headcount!

My relatives from the West or Midlands of Ireland speak English in a clear, well articulated, well modulated, and yes, lyrical way. They would never want to speak with a Dublin accent. Too foreign altogether. The Dublin cousins talk like their relatives in the West or the Midlands. ... The funniest experience I had in ireland was translating, for my Clare-Limerick uncle, the speech of our waiter in Kerry. My uncle was shocked and asked how I could possibly understand what he was saying. He said that he had some trouble with the Kerry accent but normally could understand what people were saying, so he was truly puzzled. I told him that we had that accent on my block in New York, plus many others. Only afterwards did I tell my uncle that the waiter also had a speech defect, making it truly hard for an outsider to understand him. Of course someone on my NYC block from Kerry also had the same speech defect.

Em... Knacker -- an offensive euphemism for traveller -- is not a word you'll find used on in any respectable Irish publication.