How to understand the Irish brogue

Did you know that in the 1960's Dublin Universities were full of foreign students sent to Ireland to learn English because the Universities were thought to teach the purest English. From my wife reaching way back in time, a very common saying - "You would swear your oath it was true." Another one not too nice - "That face looks like it wore out a couple of bodies." Ouch.

katetipp, I advise you never to "Agree with Trealach" because he's quite uninformed about things Irish. In this case, he is utterly wrong to say that Begorrah is not an Irish word. If he had had enough education to have read Irish literature, he would know that Begorrah occurs frequently in nineteenth-century Irsh authors such as William Carleton and Maria Edgeworth. SO both of you are wrong to claim that Begorrah was made in Hollywood. Wouldn't it be a good idea not to post about things you know nothing about?

And where is the Father Ted clip? All I see is a picture from The Field.

As far as I know brogue is the irish for shoes

For feck sake that article was a load of bollix. Agree with Trealach Begorrah was made up in Hollywood. When Americans or the English try an Irish accent it sounds stupid when you hear them do it you say "what the feck is that eejit doing making complete gobshite of himself

So where's the 'brogue' ya gobshite!!? and fer feck sake, would ya ever get a grip of yer drawers, "Begorrah" is a word created by Hollywood!! what a load of ould bollix!!

For a lesson on how NOT to do it, try listening to that warmongering fool Hannity on radio. He claims his grandparents were Irish, but he knows nothing about that country, and his efforts to mimic an Irish accent make him sound like an imbecile. (Surprise!)

After hearing, and seeing the video, of the lame attempt of Obama to try to "brogue" his way into conversation, I'd say HE SHOULD HAVE touched up on all this ahead of time. But just like his LAME attempt to "toast the queen", he failed !! It is interesting that after all that, now ... his article comes out? Yes, it IS ALL political excuse making.

I don't think we get any tourists from Mississippi.Might be a good thing too.In Cork its a common salute to say "hows it going boy".

BROGUE ???????

@torbreezy while you've the auld dictionary out...how do you spell pedant again?

A boy from Newry asked what was craic in L.A. I said twenty bucks a rock.

I believe you would do well to look up the definition of "brogue" in the dictionary and THEN proceed to edit this piece . . . .