Irish accents

[KathyM]

Apart from a trip 'over the water' - how can I find out what my Tipperary ancestors sounded like ...... there are so many Irish accents - can someone tell me of someone on TV or radio who is from this area ?

[ndpaton]

My Gr gr grandmother called her place of birth Temperoo with her Irish accent and it wasn't until I queried an Irish bank johnny and he clarified that the town of her birth was actually Templemore.  Thurles was pronounced something like "Terminus" so it is difficult with very long names with many vowels to actually know what is what. Put the name' David Larkin" into google and see if you can contact him as he is quite an authority on the Irish. Regards ndpaton

[Christopher]

Hiya Kathy,

I am working at finding either a Tipperary accent or a Tipperary broadcaster. In the meantime here is a site containing both an accent from Dublin and an accent from Northern Ireland. This NI one shuold interest you
as it is a blind photographer talking about taking sound photographs. http://www.gazzaro.it/accents/files/accents2.html

I am not there yet unless you want to learn how to speak with an Irish accent http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/irishaccent/irishaccent.html This is a fascinating subject. Here is another site telling you about the accents of the four Provinces of Ireland and also about the accents of the Irish Travellers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_accents_of_English_speakers Take a break here. I made
a slight mistake so we will have a musical interlude.

I have not done too well. The best I can do is suggest Shane MacGowan (singer songwriter) who lived in Tipperary until he was a six year old. http://www.kirstymaccoll.com/information/conn/m.htm

All the Best, Chris

 

[KathyM]

thank you.....some interesting websites....as usual.......My 'Irish' family are proving to be the most difficult ones to track down.......but hopefully I can make a trip over there before too long and do some REAL research   

[Shaztoni]

Here's one that may interest you, a pair comedian who live on the Limerick/Tipperary boarder (one more in Limerick and one more in Tipp), I know the accent well being raised on the boarder myself.

http://www.knockane.com/election2002/home.htm

you can download some clips here, and you will hear them in their full glory.

http://www.knockane.com/election2002/downloads.htm

Sharon

[Dafyddh]

Shane MacGowan went to top English public school Westminster School so although he has moved back to Tipp to live his accent may be more stage than authentic.

Pat Shortt is a comedian from Tipperary, he has had some hit TV shows in Ireland - Killinaskully and the D'Unbelievables, but to get a quick blast of a Tipperary accent see him play the madman Tom in Father Ted.



http://www.patshortt.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Ted#Tom

[Dafyddh]

Oops I just clicked on the post by scrattletrap and he's on about Pat Shortt as well!