Dialects and Accents of Ireland
The archive provides:
In a small number of cases, you will also find a narrow phonetic transcription of the sample (see Phonetic Transcriptions for a complete list).
The recordings average four minutes in length and feature both the reading of one of two standard passages, and some unscripted speech. The two passages, Comma Gets a Cure (currently our standard passage), and The Rainbow Passage (used in our earliest recordings), may be accessed from the menu bar to your right.
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Dialect Samples
To properly play a sound sample, you may first need to save it to your own computer. To do so, right-click on the desired sample and save it. A high-speed connection to the internet may allow you to play the file simply by clicking it.| Sound Sample | Basic Information | Text Files |
|---|---|---|
| Ireland One | White male, 30's, actor, well-educated Sligo dialect | Ireland One |
| Ireland Two | White female, middle aged, actress and TV presenter, Dublin | Ireland Two |
| Ireland Three | White female, twenties, graduate student, born Dublin | Ireland Three |
| Ireland Four | White female, born 1945, County Cork, emigrated to Texas as a young woman, very mild dialect | Ireland Four |
| Ireland Five | White male, born 1967, Dublin, a writer | Ireland Five Transcription |
| Ireland Six | White male, Galway | Ireland Six Transcription |
| Ireland Seven | White female, Dublin | Ireland Seven Transcription |
| Ireland Eight | White female, County Clare | Ireland Eight Transcription |
| Ireland Nine | White male, Cork | Ireland Nine |
| Ireland Ten | White male, 60, County Clare | Ireland Ten |
| Ireland Eleven | White male, 23, Dublin | Ireland Eleven |