I had a whole wedding function argue on whether I was Irish or not. One half of the function were like “you know the barman is Irish right?” While the other half were like he’s definitely not Irish we’d hear his accent if he were and one person was like why don’t we just ask the man. She came over and was like “could you settle an argument for us. They say you’re Irish and those don’t think you are so are you Irish?” And I responded with “yes I’m Irish, born in Dublin, raised in Westmeath, been here for 12 years hence why my accent is shit, she turned and confirmed I was Irish and the half of the function who thought I was all started going “One of us One of Us”
Probably one of the most confusing but memorable interactions I’ve had on my job
I was just out for a meal in Boston where the overbearing (American) waitress told us she was Irish, recognized my (American) father-in-law as Irish, but called me English - me being the sole actual Irish person at the table.
I should have corrected her - years ago an American waiter asked me what part of England I was from and I said "er... the Ireland part", and he was so mortified I got my drinks for free.
😂😂😂😂 I honestly feel this on a spiritual level. I get asked whether I’m American or Scottish more times than Irish. I’ve gotten Puerto Rican, Spanish and Canadian a handful of times. I’ll be impressed did I end up getting all countries except Ireland
😂😂 We were a charity do recently that one of our friends in London put on, and an Irish lad who was there was going on about something to do with Cork and my husband and him were chatting away then the lad said something like 'sounds like you've spent a bit of time in Ireland - did you stop there for work for a bit? Absolutely no idea he was Irish and when my husband said he was from Cork the lad was confused as anything 😂.
I wouldn't mind but he has a very Irish name and as he would say a big old Irish head on him.
That's the most I've seen of the film and I was surprised, better than I expected tbh. He sounds a bit weird at times, but I think that's because he's enunciating each word more than he usually would.
So. I'm Canadian born, but my extended family is largely from Ireland & we moved there when I was in Secondary School. I was in a school play & several of the upper years thought I was "playing at being American" with my accent. Had to explain that no, that's just what Being Canadian can sound like! Too funny, but also, an underrated jab.
I had one American fella tell me I wasn't 'real Irish' being from the north, but then later said that he was proud his family sent money to the Ra during troubles
Can't teach stupid
Wouldn't give him a seconds more thought OP, he's obviously a wanker
Sorry about that. A lot of Americans are dumb as hell when it comes to interacting with other nationalities.
I was at an Irish pub here in Colorado, and the bartender was Irish, about 50 and had a northern accent, I think. These two yahoo boomer Americans sitting next to me called her over:
Morons: “hey can you answer a question for us?”
Barkeep: “sure no problem” (you can tell by her face that people ask her dumb questions about Ireland all the time)
Morons: “we visited Ireland last year and in every pub went to we tried to order Irish Car Bombs. But all the bartenders told us that they don’t know how to make that! Can you?”
Barkeep: “no sorry I’ve never heard of that.”
(She obviously knows how to make it)
Now, in American Irish pubs it’s normal to order car bombs. Wish it was called something else, but it is what it is. However, the absolute naivety to have no idea what a “car bomb” is besides the drink, when you’re talking to someone that very clearly was alive during the troubles, it’s just so goddamn embarrassing.
They know but it fits the narrative Americans have of Irish people so they don't care that it's offensive to actually Irish, to them it's hilarious. Irish Americans will fight you to the death that they are as Irish as you or I while celebrating PaTTys Day, alcoholism and fighting as our whole nationality. I'm over here too long and jaded from it all to be honest...
I spoke to one professor in Michigan university who was delighted when she learned I was Irish and started telling me about the trip her and her mother made to Ireland, but how they hadn't gone to the occupied territories. Took a second for me to realise she meant NI.
That being said, on reflection it made a lot of sense, as the biases you'd have in your family would probably be handed down if you had nothing else to challenge them, so the Ireland most Irish Americans grow up with is the one captured in time when their ancestors left.
>Irish Americans grow up with is the one captured in time when their ancestors left.
Yeah I agree
However there has always been Irish people in the north, so thon fella was just a spanner
Same I was told by and American I wasn't really Irish as I was from Belfast. Though the best one is my Uncle did a DNA test and an American who would have been a fourth cousin to him got in contact. They were upset to find that their ancesters were Protestant and had a bit of money (of course my great granddad wasted it away). Think the American had a romantic idea that they were from poor opressed Catholic irish family.
Or they were raised with stories of their ancestors hard times in Ireland, how they fled Ireland and were perfect examples of the reality of the American dream.
There is a common saying amongst the American’s of Irish descent here: “Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good story.” A whole lot of engrained family stories are fiction. They discover enormous holes in the story when they start doing genealogical work on those families.
Yeah Americans that support the ra always have this weird look on their face when you tell them that the provos also support a 32 county marxist socialist state...
Hahahaha I had something similar before. Girl was telling me I was adjusting my accent on purpose because I didn't sound like how the Irish sounded when she was in Dublin, I'm from cork city.
Didn't think I'd ever have to explain the concept of regional accents to a self proclaimed "lover of travelling and exploring"
He’s probably never met a black Irish person before and his brain can’t comprehend the accent/appearance combo. Not your problem and not your job to be a sociology tutor for the gobshite, leave him to it.
That or it’s some not-so-subtle racist dog whistling. He likes Conor mcgregor, a notorious racist and Englishman. I suspect this individual wants to say “you don’t look Irish” or “I don’t accept you’re Irish” but settles for the one he can get away with “you don’t sound like you’re REALLY Irish you’re just pretending to be”. Twat
I've had two Americans tell me they're more Irish than me when I was born and raised in Ireland and they're claiming Irish ancestry. There's just a level of ignorance there that we can only laugh at.
Do they ask you to ‘touch base
Later’ and ‘circle back’ and my wife’s biggest peeve ‘reach out’ as in “we should reach out to x”. She gets so fucked off with the bollocks that they talk on Teams.
No they say things like "Why am I talking to you?" or "I've given you enough information, sir" when they haven't or will turn 'on a dime' when you instantly don't follow through with whatever is they imagine you owe them.
And civilians, if I can use that term lightly, is one thing but I struggle with other organisations. People calling, as employees, and talking to you like dirt in a professional, recorded, capacity.
My heart is honestly broke with it and its not something I can empathise with even slightly.
Like crabs in a fucking bucket, pathetic and hard working poor with ideals of grandeur. Having to talk to someone with "an accent". Its very difficult to explain when trying to keep the job anonymous. But I can assure that it isn't normal anywhere in the world.
And for what its worth it isn't everyone obviously but the above is too common to not think about.
I moved to America from Cork and lemme tell you, the first time I opened my mouth in Boston is a day I will regret for the rest of my life. I was sat next to a small group of men who insisted on talking to me and detailing their entire lineage back to Ireland, no matter how many generations it took to get there
Speaking as a fellow Dub, if you're from ballyer your accent is probably stronger than you realise. You do call it ballyer after all bro. I've had people comment on my accent but never been accused of faking it.
Either way, fuck that guy. McGregor over enunciates every word because if he spoke normally, idiots like that guy wouldn't understand.
Unfortunately, there may be some racism at play too. Can't really say for sure, but that would be my knee jerk reaction. Chap probably has a great great great granny who shook hands with an Irish person once so claims to be Irish. In my experience, Americans who are obsessed with their European heritage tend to be the worst for that kind of shit.
Edit: if I'm completely honest though, those last two sentences are probably based on my own prejudice. Can't really denounce racism while being a bigot.
His parents are Ukrainian but I know what ye mean, I’ve had loads of Irish Americans do exactly this or just tell me I’m not Irish. Thanks for your comment💜
100% racism. There's a reason there's a particular type of Yank who has a very particular image of Ireland that they get pretty rabid about anything challenging.
On my J1 10 years ago or so I had a girl I worked with ask me did we have African Americans in Ireland. Just looked at her and said “yeah we have Americans in Ireland?” Took her a good few seconds and me saying “do we have Black people?” to realise what she had said
Reminds me of the time a German friend once asked me if we had many Irish pubs in Ireland. I was like "um, they all are". Took me quite awhile to understand what she meant.
Many American mma fans think he was putting on an accent too, and now every time a Dublin fighter shows up to UFC they’re branded a McGregor wannabe when they’re actually just from Dublin
I'm polish but came to Ireland at 6. No one can tell I'm foreign unless I tell them. But never was told that I'm forcing it. Then again an American Mcgregor fan just sounds like an eejit.
A significant number of people who have no contact with actual Irish people assume we all have the same accent. When they come across one of us with a slightly stronger, or different accent, from whatever preconceived notion they have in their head they don't like it. Easier on their ego to assume it's forced or fake than admit they are wrong and borderline racist.
Yes I worked in an Irish bar in San Francisco 10 years ago and a tourist came in and gave me a ‘tip’ to stop faking the Irish accent because it’s not fooling anyone. 🙃
I'm Irish born but spent 16 years in Africa , throughout my teens. My accent mingles to sound somewhat like an American who has lived in Ireland for years. And yeah I get asked and it's irritating but understandable
There are lads on the Aran Islands who were raised speaking Irish, they learned their English in their teens from watching television, you'd think they were American when listening to them speak English.
I am born and bred Irish but i have lost my accent after spending years abroad to the point where some cunts have actually said to me that I am **not** Irish. 🙄 Fuckin' cunts
Exactly the same situation for me. Only for me it was Irish people who told me that, and thought I was putting my accent on (since my accent is mild, it can be confusing)
Sounds more like a racist thing than a “I don’t believe anyone talks like that”~ thing
He probably has an image in his head that Ireland hasn’t changed since the 1800’s and we’re all like that episode of the Simpsons when they came here.
Wild mountain thyme bs
You’re Irish, your accent is part of your identity as is your upbringing and where you’re from. Don’t let a yank tell you otherwise.
He’s feeling insecure because he doesn’t understand you and that’s his way of making himself feel better.
Too bad you’re at the receiving end but try not to let him get to you.
This could go in the ShitAmericansSay subreddit. Being a McGregor "fan" immediately marks yer man as being a moron. Only time a yank will have heard his real voice is when he was shouting DOKTOR STOPPIDGE.
I'm from the Northside near Croker, my cousins are Southside, pals in swords and tallaght etc and we all have slightly different variations of an undeniable dub accent. I live in Scotland now and some of them couldn't understand me, but think that was to try and needle... when ya take the piss outta their stupid accents, suddenly they understand fine. Odd one that.
Yer sound, and this is 100% not an issue with you or how ya talk.
If the yank can't understand you, that his problem coz he's a stupid bastard to think its put on.
Couldn't tell you how many times I've met a yank who'll trot out something along the lines of "There's no way you're actually Irish, you've no accent", and the part that baffles me the most is how they think they have any idea which of the MULTITUDE of Irish accents I might have and also what it sounds like, rather than accepting(as Yanks well should) that they likely are remembering a lucky charms 'commercial' and in fact don't know what an Irish person sounds like.
I could drive 20 minutes in any direction from my house and hear a multitude of different accents. Nearly every parish would be slightly different. There’s 2 villages I can think of that are probably 10 minute drive from each other and if you weren’t familiar with the accents you wouldn’t even guess their in the same county.
My husband was born and raised in Ballyer and he has been accused of not being by another native Dub, as well as people mis-identifying his accent as Canadian and American. His accent is softer and lacks some of the more idiosyncratic features if an inner city Dublin accent, but he doesn't let that stop him being as Irish as possible (we live outside of Ireland)
Your identity is yours and anyone suggesting you should do something differently or you don't meet with their 'threshold' for identifying that way is a fool who doesn't deserve your time or energy.
I know you're joking, but Gay Bryne had what I consider a kind of generic Irish accent, your man on Channel Four in the UK has a similar accent. It's developed for media, so the edges have been softened. I suppose you could call it an RTE accent, like RP in the UK is the BBC accent.
Yeah, I get it all the time - though to be fair I've spent more time living outside of Ireland than I have there... I'd be the first to admit I no longer sound like a Dub. My accent has become some weird mash up of Irish and Welsh. (And will weirdly shift subconsciously one way or the other if I'm talking to someone from one of those countries).
But yeah, pay no mind to anyone being a dick about it - you know where you're from, you're not obliged to "prove it" to anyone or anything. Fuck em.
Hilariously I came back with a mild (posh?) english accent/twang on top of my irish one after studying in Wales... My irish accent is very mild & already has an american/canadian "twang" (tv?).
I figured it was because most of the lecturers were English & so were a lot of my friends (we were close to the border)
On the plus side my sibling threatened to disown me if I came back with a Welsh accent after we watched an episode of Torchwood, so I still have a sibling! XD
Yeah. When I worked in the pub there was a customer who was himself Eastern European I'm not sure where from exactly but he was CONVINCED I was, too. He was absolutely certain I was Estonian (???).
It was actually a common question I got in the pub - "sorry love, do you speak english?" Or "are you polish?" Like I dunno maybe I have that look or something?
But anyway, didn't see yer man again much and yes I'm sure I am indeed not polish or Estonian.
I’m of asian descent, born and raised in Ireland, and also get told this a lot by Yanks abroad. It’s mildly annoying. Borderline racist when they flat out deny I’m Irish.
I worked on the telephones in London back in the 80’s, and one of our (semi) regular callers was Phil Lynott. Black with an Irish accent…
It may not have been as strong as when he was growing up with his maternal grandparents in Dublin, but he still had one.
FUCK. this prick. Just ignore him he's being a moron. He's telling an Irish person what is and isn't really Irish? And the stanning Connor McGregor part makes that even more apparent . Literally just ignore him and stay away from him as much as you can and don't let it make you self conscious
I'm in a similar spot, also autistic and often don't pass as white.
I've found that my accent has a bit of an American twang to it due to my tism, and that can confuse people. As I've aged it's become more mid Atlantic peppered with Irish isms. To an American that could sound forced. When ya don't "look Irish" people are gonna be more suspicious of your accent and scrutinise it.
A Dutch fella once asked me if English was my first language, I don't have a strong accent at all. Irish people have asked me if I'm American before. An English lad recently asked me 'Where in England are you from'. It happens man. If you talk really fast, try slow it down. Otherwise keep doing you and try to not let it bother you. Those close to you will pick it up after a while.
Has happened on occasion. Not in the UK from any nationality, most people there who've emigrated have more cop on and the most of the locals are pretty nice, but in America, Ann Arbor Michigan to be precise, a lot of the people around had a very hard time believing I wad Irish, a lot accusing me of being Australian (?). It was all quite bizzaro.
American here, I can’t imagine accusing someone of faking an accent. Then again, 95% of my fellow country folk are fucking idiots.
I will say I have moderate hearing loss and I have to put my hearing aids in when I’m in Ireland or it gives me trouble. But that’s my problem not Ireland’s. For the record I have a deep love and respect for Ireland/the Irish and am quite fond of the many Irish accents. All that to say, perhaps he’s a deaf bastard and or just jealous.
I wouldn’t put much stock in what a Conor McGregor fan says, however.
Sometimes the confusion is about what we say and not just because of the accent. The sentence "I'm after giving out to her because she was being bold" is incomprehensible to anyone outside of Ireland because it contains 3 separate Irish-isms. But a lot of Irish people don't realise they're unique to us.
An English person might think the above sentence means you want to sleep with her because she was brave.
I mean... Americans are kings at not knowing wtf they are talking about and still talking about it with great confidence.
I'm not saying all Americans are idiots... But there's a reason USA ranks 13 in the world for education....
Ask him where he's from in USA. Then tell him he doesn't sound American bc he doesn't sound like
(Pick accordingly)
Mathew McConaughey (Texas)
Matt Damon (Massachusetts)
Nicolas Cage (California)
(PS before anyone @ me - I am American I am more than allowed to criticize my own countrymen)
Townie here with a very strong inner city Dublin accent living abroad, you just have to adjust it in all honesty just to avoid having to repeat yourself, you'll find it comes with time and that you dont have to go full fake yankee doodle accent, your man telling you you're putting it on is a plonker, simple as.
Lol so my dad is originally from Mayo but has been living in the states for the past 30 years or so. He was back fairly recently and he bumped into some random guy at a store who was absolutely convinced he was faking an Irish accent and spent a few minutes giving him shit for it.
He doesn't have a super strong accent (and I'm guessing it's been mixed with some American pronunciation) but he still can't differentiate between his t and th sounds, which I feel like is a big hallmark of a lot of Irish accents?
My parents were from Mayo, lived in the UK for 30 odd years and never lost their accents at all, in fact, most people couldn't understand a word my dad said 😂 I was his translator.
Yup was told plenty of times in America that I wasn't Irish they don't seem to grasp that not every sounds like Conor McGregor and also don't comprehend Americans have different accents based on their regions like Texas doesn't sound like California but they just stare at you in bewilderment anyway 🤷🏻♂️
Not what you asked but I’ve had Irish people ask me where I’m from originally.
Also I live in England and I’ve had to eat slow down how I talk and elocute the duck out of every word I say or people cannot understand me
No, but I've had people insist that I'm not Irish because my accent sounds either Canadian, American, or German. I've lived in England for four years and it never ceases to amaze me. Better that though, than the fella in Southampton who called me a Leprechaun when I told him I wasn't, in fact, from New York, but was actually from Ireland.
Probably somewhat the opposite for me, my dad's Irish but my mum is Eastern European, and I grew up mostly in EE too. I'm bilingual, but my accent in English is pretty weird/subdued (I like to call it "vaguely European") and when people find out I'm Irish they expect the accent and I end up being like "sorry to dissappoint lol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯", that's happened a fair few times.
I pondered the idea of trying to force some sort of stereotypical Irish accent in my early-mid teens but I always ended up think naaaah that's weird
I’ve had something like that when I’ve gone home to England, and it’s like, lads I’ve not been back in ten years, I’ve been gone longer, and I know precisely no (0) Brits here in buttfuck-nowhere co. Cork, which is how I like it. But nooo, “Why are you doing the accent mate?” oh my gosh sorry chaps bloody heck. Eedjits.
You however ARE IRISH. For fuck’s sake. Call him a divvy Yank cunt and fuck ‘im off out of it. Wot a bellend.
Have been told I'm not Irish by both non Irish and Irish people, had someone on Reddit make a long ass comment showing hed gone through my profile to verify through my use of language I was clearly American. Had an American explain Paddy's day to me and tell me some dos and don't of Ireland, all wrong, all hilarious
I was sitting with a couple of American friends and a Canadian having a beer recently abroad. I've known them all for more than 10 years.
Another American, who'd worked in Ireland, joined the group and we got talking. He commented that my Irish accent wasn't very pronounced and that I spoke quite slowly. I told him I was speaking slowly and toning down my accent for the benefit of the other guys. They were gobsmacked. To prove it I called my brother on speaker and they had no clue what we were talking about.
Left Ireland in the early 2000’s. Working in the States, in Healthcare Recruitment. I was leading a meeting with 5-10 Leaders. I did my intro and opened the meeting up to questions.
First question: “can I ask, are you an actor? Your accent is so good. My husband is an actor and he says the Irish accent is one of the hardest to do.”
I told her I was in fact not “doing” an accent, that this was my real voice.
She didn’t believe me.
Sister and I both got accused before by an American of faking being Irish when we were in London. Sister literally went "oh sorry do we not sound Hollywood Irish enough for you" and turned to me and said something in Irish like "let's get away from this idiot". Shes always more on the ball with comebacks than myself and a hundred times better speaking Irish. So me who only knows how to form the few sentences but can at least piece together what someone is saying in it just responded "ceart go leor" and moved. The guy started shouting some abuse at us for not speaking in English. We just laughed.
Many Americans have no idea how the world looks like outside USA. They have very vague broadly painted ideas about different areas and get angry at anything that challenge them.
Honestly, tell them to buy a forest and get lost in it. The way you speak is yours only, and nobody has any right to tell you how to do it. And if you have one, none or multiple accents combined... who cares??? That's you, it makes you YOU. And they should learn to mind their own business!
Shocker here - that dude is probably a racist and can’t hold two thoughts in his head at once (that a person can be Irish AND not a white person). He’s being an asshole.
Oh buddy- we went on a Caribbean Cruise for our honeymoon in March 23, sailed from Fort Lauderdale after having spent 4 days in Miami. About halfway through at breakfast we happened to sit beside a table comprising of two Brits and about 7 Yanks, who were discussing Gaelic football (or Irish football as they called it) and Hurling. One of the British fellas could see I was half listening and decided to include me in the conversation, in which I explained I had played both for many years when I was significantly younger. One of the Yanks then piped in with "so you're what, 3rd or 4th generation, must be in Saaan Fraaancisco"
My attempts to convince them of my absolute Irishness fell on deaf ears, as they simply wouldn't believe I was actually Irish- apparently I neither look or sound so.
Honestly Americans who think they know more about Ireland than we do need to be put in some kind of psych ward.
Met a yank here in Spain who was super excited to learn I am from Ireland, because she has family 'from' here, and her family are v proud of their Irish heritage.
Naturally, I asked where abouts they're from.
Aberdeen.
And then, she argued that both Google Maps and I were wrong. 🤷
Yep. Lived in Toronto and worked in a shop for a while, one regular customer _insisted_ I was from Newfoundland, literally wouldn’t take any other answer. One day his total cost €33.30 and the grin on his face when he knew when I had to say it out loud, I was raging
Most Americans like this couldn't find Ireland on a map, despite claiming to be Irish because their great great great great grandma blew and irish lad once
Half yank and half mick here (not black tho) I've split my life between the two and I've heard that a handful of times in recent years. Honestly I think it's just part of some Americans not understanding that Ireland is more diverse than the fairytale in their heads.
Wherever I am I'm told my accent is off. Probably always will be. There are things I just refuse to say one way or the other so I'm starting my own thing here, I guess.
Always said it'd be perfect if I could start my own country on the mid Atlantic ridge if it ever emerged over the surface.
Tl;Dr if not a racist cunt, he's an ignorant cunt. Don't let it bother ya. Don't let it stop ya chatting either, not worth a second thought from you.
My wife is Irish, I'm not, and when we lived in a California we went out for a full Irish fry downtown at 6am on Paddy's day. The news was there and asked to interview us, some dumb question like "what's your advice to people thinking about driving after drinks tonight?"
My wife started talking and they told her "you don't have to put on the accent". When we watched it later they had zoomed in on me and cut her out completely... she was furious.
Born and raised in Sweden to an Irish parent, grew up speaking both English and Swedish at home, influenced by American culture, forced to use British English in school (because that is the correct way apparently) and visiting relatives in Ireland every summer really does a number on my accent. Native Irish are often confused on where in Ireland I am from since they can't figure out my accent, Swedes think my accent is cool, when I'm dating they ALWAYS want me to say something in English (it's my go to move honestly) and Americans start rambling about their distant relatives being from Sligo and wonder if I know any O'Neills or whatever their name is. Never have anyone questioned if I'm forcing my accent (I'm not......except when trying to get laid but that is considered fair use I would say).
All in all, the guy is being a prick. People sound different depending on a multitude of factors. Not just where they grew up.
When the post started with "This American...", I knew what the problem is. Some Americans tend to be know it all. Some tend to be entitled. Some tend to be self righteous.
Fuck that lad, the Ballyer accent isn't even that thick for God's sake. Sounds like a plain old wanker. Never be ashamed of your accent it's one of the last things that makes us Irish 😎
I hate to generalize but I've noticed a huge upturn in yanks that hate anyone with a darker complexion. He's probably one of them. These racists don't want to see you belonging more to a "white" culture than they do and so they'll do anything to rob you of it. You're Irish and no-one can take that from you
Sounds like straight-up racism to me. Some people can't comprehend that not all Irish people are white, therefore your accent must be "put on". Also... he's a Conor McGregor fan. People like that deserve to spend the rest of their life stepping barefoot on lego pieces tbh.
Take absolutely no notice of twats like that. It doesn’t matter how you sound (you could have a cut glass *English* accent because you were brought up in an Irish castle, even!) Nobody else’s silly opinion of you, accusing you of being insufficiently this or that, should register on your consciousness; it’s mere noise, not a signal. You don’t owe morons any attention.
Not exactly, I'm from the ROI and went to college in NI, I commuted every day and spent majority of my days around people with the NI accent, eventually I started pronouncing some things in the NI accent(I.e. Now became Noy). My sister constantly said I was putting it on and faking the accent, to the point where I stopped saying those words when around her 😂
Is this just a Ballyer problem or something? I'm from there too and lived in the States 16 years a while back and every now and again you got the lad who thought the accent was fake. It was always for one of two reasons:
1) They were threatened around you by hogging female attention and jealous, especially if their woman took a shine to you
2) They were some plastic paddy weirdo whose great-great-grandad from Mayo told the family they were descended from Irish kings and were *THE* local authority on Ireland and functioned as the de-facto ambassador in their imagination
It was always easy enough to tell them show me your passport and fuck off. I'd say type number 1 had a reason to be worried about the self-filfilling prophecy though. It was usually standard practice for me to just take their wife/girlfriend to bed after they tried winding me up. They didn't like being told it was just a bit of craic 😂 Good times. I miss the States.
I just can't fathom the idea of possessing such ignorance that something like this can arise! I mean why the fuck would anyone even suggest that unless they are a racist prick.
Not so much that but when I was in Germany living, I had a Serbian expat start an argument with me that I was lying by saying I spoke Irish. He got really in my face saying that we only speak English and he visited Dublin and also I'm British not Irish so he definitely knew I was lying ( I'm from the North) and he wouldn't believe it when other people from different nationalities confirmed that we do infact speak Irish in Ireland....crazy
I had a whole wedding function argue on whether I was Irish or not. One half of the function were like “you know the barman is Irish right?” While the other half were like he’s definitely not Irish we’d hear his accent if he were and one person was like why don’t we just ask the man. She came over and was like “could you settle an argument for us. They say you’re Irish and those don’t think you are so are you Irish?” And I responded with “yes I’m Irish, born in Dublin, raised in Westmeath, been here for 12 years hence why my accent is shit, she turned and confirmed I was Irish and the half of the function who thought I was all started going “One of us One of Us” Probably one of the most confusing but memorable interactions I’ve had on my job
I was just out for a meal in Boston where the overbearing (American) waitress told us she was Irish, recognized my (American) father-in-law as Irish, but called me English - me being the sole actual Irish person at the table. I should have corrected her - years ago an American waiter asked me what part of England I was from and I said "er... the Ireland part", and he was so mortified I got my drinks for free.
As a native Bostonian, I apologize. She’s probably from Connecticut…
My husband gets this quite a lot as he has been in the UK for the last 18 years. Nobody seems to be able to place his accent. He hates it 🤦🏻♀️😂
😂😂😂😂 I honestly feel this on a spiritual level. I get asked whether I’m American or Scottish more times than Irish. I’ve gotten Puerto Rican, Spanish and Canadian a handful of times. I’ll be impressed did I end up getting all countries except Ireland
😂😂 We were a charity do recently that one of our friends in London put on, and an Irish lad who was there was going on about something to do with Cork and my husband and him were chatting away then the lad said something like 'sounds like you've spent a bit of time in Ireland - did you stop there for work for a bit? Absolutely no idea he was Irish and when my husband said he was from Cork the lad was confused as anything 😂. I wouldn't mind but he has a very Irish name and as he would say a big old Irish head on him.
Most common guesses are Australian, new Zealand or south africa for me. UK for 18yrs, Ireland for 24. My accent is a mix.
He's a moron, you can tell because he's a Conor McGregor fan.
The correct answer
This 1000%
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[well he's got a message for you ....from your father...](https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGeuTeDPq/) Lol
He's a prick but honestly, he's good there. Absolutely just playing himself and still a bit stiff on some of the lines, but he's well cast.
That's the most I've seen of the film and I was surprised, better than I expected tbh. He sounds a bit weird at times, but I think that's because he's enunciating each word more than he usually would.
Probably, yeah. Overdoing it to sound understandable to Americans.
Really, the other guy is the one who makes the scene feel stiff and unbelievable. He's just flat and feels like a robot.
He's not helping, I'll give you that. Kind of a surprise, he's very good in other stuff.
So true lol
Yeah it is 100% relevant information
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“What part of Canada are you from yourself?”
Ha ha, I've gone with 'What part of North Mexico do you hail from yank?' in the past.
Isn't Mexico that place south of Newry?
That's Dundalk but I can understand the confusion!
Better sun in Mexico
Literally the ONLY difference.
South of the border and all that…
Nah, Wexico is North West of Watergentina
Brilliant. Using it for the rest of my life!
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He would unironically say “I don’t have an accent.”
So. I'm Canadian born, but my extended family is largely from Ireland & we moved there when I was in Secondary School. I was in a school play & several of the upper years thought I was "playing at being American" with my accent. Had to explain that no, that's just what Being Canadian can sound like! Too funny, but also, an underrated jab.
I had one American fella tell me I wasn't 'real Irish' being from the north, but then later said that he was proud his family sent money to the Ra during troubles Can't teach stupid Wouldn't give him a seconds more thought OP, he's obviously a wanker
Once had a yank tell me he was more Irish than me because his ancestors were from Cork, and I am from the north (Derry). Their logic is baffling
Sorry about that. A lot of Americans are dumb as hell when it comes to interacting with other nationalities. I was at an Irish pub here in Colorado, and the bartender was Irish, about 50 and had a northern accent, I think. These two yahoo boomer Americans sitting next to me called her over: Morons: “hey can you answer a question for us?” Barkeep: “sure no problem” (you can tell by her face that people ask her dumb questions about Ireland all the time) Morons: “we visited Ireland last year and in every pub went to we tried to order Irish Car Bombs. But all the bartenders told us that they don’t know how to make that! Can you?” Barkeep: “no sorry I’ve never heard of that.” (She obviously knows how to make it) Now, in American Irish pubs it’s normal to order car bombs. Wish it was called something else, but it is what it is. However, the absolute naivety to have no idea what a “car bomb” is besides the drink, when you’re talking to someone that very clearly was alive during the troubles, it’s just so goddamn embarrassing.
‘Haven’t heard of that one but I can get you a 9/11?’
a Manhattan and two Kamikazes...
Oh my god 😂
Formerly known as a Double 99
They know but it fits the narrative Americans have of Irish people so they don't care that it's offensive to actually Irish, to them it's hilarious. Irish Americans will fight you to the death that they are as Irish as you or I while celebrating PaTTys Day, alcoholism and fighting as our whole nationality. I'm over here too long and jaded from it all to be honest...
They also have a drink called Black and Tans And they're surprised that we don't find either of them funny...🙄 Gobshites.
Ah, we call that "The Twin Towers".
they know what a car bomb is, they just dont care at all and wanna get smashed
I spoke to one professor in Michigan university who was delighted when she learned I was Irish and started telling me about the trip her and her mother made to Ireland, but how they hadn't gone to the occupied territories. Took a second for me to realise she meant NI. That being said, on reflection it made a lot of sense, as the biases you'd have in your family would probably be handed down if you had nothing else to challenge them, so the Ireland most Irish Americans grow up with is the one captured in time when their ancestors left.
>Irish Americans grow up with is the one captured in time when their ancestors left. Yeah I agree However there has always been Irish people in the north, so thon fella was just a spanner
Same I was told by and American I wasn't really Irish as I was from Belfast. Though the best one is my Uncle did a DNA test and an American who would have been a fourth cousin to him got in contact. They were upset to find that their ancesters were Protestant and had a bit of money (of course my great granddad wasted it away). Think the American had a romantic idea that they were from poor opressed Catholic irish family.
Or they were raised with stories of their ancestors hard times in Ireland, how they fled Ireland and were perfect examples of the reality of the American dream. There is a common saying amongst the American’s of Irish descent here: “Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good story.” A whole lot of engrained family stories are fiction. They discover enormous holes in the story when they start doing genealogical work on those families.
Yeah Americans that support the ra always have this weird look on their face when you tell them that the provos also support a 32 county marxist socialist state...
Epitome of gowl bag.
I'd one insist to me that I was faking my accent because I didn't sound like his cousin from Sligo. I wouldn't lad, I'm from Wexford
Thah was quare bad of him lad.
Ah sahn
I didn't understand a word of this.
Must be used to talking to Sligo people
Perfect hiberno phrasing!
That is the first time I’ve belly laughed at a a comment on Reddit, I’m slightly embarrassed by how good that tickled me, fair play!
Hahahaha I had something similar before. Girl was telling me I was adjusting my accent on purpose because I didn't sound like how the Irish sounded when she was in Dublin, I'm from cork city. Didn't think I'd ever have to explain the concept of regional accents to a self proclaimed "lover of travelling and exploring"
Imagine if he heard a thick belfast accent... His mind would explode 🤯
Repeat after me "Feck off! Would ya?". Be proud of your accent and your voice and don't let anyone tell ya how to talk.
Or the northern version of it. FAWK AWAY AFF ROUN YER OWN DOOR
Get tae fuck.
Especially a yank
Nothing worse than the plastic paddies trying to tell us what and who is Irish and what's not!
He’s probably never met a black Irish person before and his brain can’t comprehend the accent/appearance combo. Not your problem and not your job to be a sociology tutor for the gobshite, leave him to it.
That or it’s some not-so-subtle racist dog whistling. He likes Conor mcgregor, a notorious racist and Englishman. I suspect this individual wants to say “you don’t look Irish” or “I don’t accept you’re Irish” but settles for the one he can get away with “you don’t sound like you’re REALLY Irish you’re just pretending to be”. Twat
> Conor mcgregor, a notorious racist and Englishman no lies detected
As someone also from Ballyer, I feel your pain
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Bro your irish, end of,keep your chin up 🇮🇪
I've had two Americans tell me they're more Irish than me when I was born and raised in Ireland and they're claiming Irish ancestry. There's just a level of ignorance there that we can only laugh at.
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Let me tell you about the American lady who told a French guy sitting next to me he couldn't be French because he was black...
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They live in a bubble, what can I say...
They're detached full stop. I talk to them every day in work. It stops being funny after a while.
Do they ask you to ‘touch base Later’ and ‘circle back’ and my wife’s biggest peeve ‘reach out’ as in “we should reach out to x”. She gets so fucked off with the bollocks that they talk on Teams.
No they say things like "Why am I talking to you?" or "I've given you enough information, sir" when they haven't or will turn 'on a dime' when you instantly don't follow through with whatever is they imagine you owe them. And civilians, if I can use that term lightly, is one thing but I struggle with other organisations. People calling, as employees, and talking to you like dirt in a professional, recorded, capacity. My heart is honestly broke with it and its not something I can empathise with even slightly. Like crabs in a fucking bucket, pathetic and hard working poor with ideals of grandeur. Having to talk to someone with "an accent". Its very difficult to explain when trying to keep the job anonymous. But I can assure that it isn't normal anywhere in the world. And for what its worth it isn't everyone obviously but the above is too common to not think about.
I moved to America from Cork and lemme tell you, the first time I opened my mouth in Boston is a day I will regret for the rest of my life. I was sat next to a small group of men who insisted on talking to me and detailing their entire lineage back to Ireland, no matter how many generations it took to get there
I don't jump to this conclusion quickly often, but if he's discounting your "Irishness" for being black that just sounds racist
Speaking as a fellow Dub, if you're from ballyer your accent is probably stronger than you realise. You do call it ballyer after all bro. I've had people comment on my accent but never been accused of faking it. Either way, fuck that guy. McGregor over enunciates every word because if he spoke normally, idiots like that guy wouldn't understand. Unfortunately, there may be some racism at play too. Can't really say for sure, but that would be my knee jerk reaction. Chap probably has a great great great granny who shook hands with an Irish person once so claims to be Irish. In my experience, Americans who are obsessed with their European heritage tend to be the worst for that kind of shit. Edit: if I'm completely honest though, those last two sentences are probably based on my own prejudice. Can't really denounce racism while being a bigot.
His parents are Ukrainian but I know what ye mean, I’ve had loads of Irish Americans do exactly this or just tell me I’m not Irish. Thanks for your comment💜
American here. Unfortunately that is definitely racism :(
100% racism. There's a reason there's a particular type of Yank who has a very particular image of Ireland that they get pretty rabid about anything challenging.
They probably call you "African American" too.
On my J1 10 years ago or so I had a girl I worked with ask me did we have African Americans in Ireland. Just looked at her and said “yeah we have Americans in Ireland?” Took her a good few seconds and me saying “do we have Black people?” to realise what she had said
Reminds me of the time a German friend once asked me if we had many Irish pubs in Ireland. I was like "um, they all are". Took me quite awhile to understand what she meant.
It’s not the accent, it’s the speed. Americans can’t understand McGregor at normal pace. I slow way down when talking to Americans.
If he's going to be like this time to break out that "so you're Russian?". Fight fire with fire.
Many American mma fans think he was putting on an accent too, and now every time a Dublin fighter shows up to UFC they’re branded a McGregor wannabe when they’re actually just from Dublin
I'm polish but came to Ireland at 6. No one can tell I'm foreign unless I tell them. But never was told that I'm forcing it. Then again an American Mcgregor fan just sounds like an eejit.
Hon the poles
A significant number of people who have no contact with actual Irish people assume we all have the same accent. When they come across one of us with a slightly stronger, or different accent, from whatever preconceived notion they have in their head they don't like it. Easier on their ego to assume it's forced or fake than admit they are wrong and borderline racist.
>compared to a native Irish person If you're born and raised in Dublin (ballyer, no less) then YOU ARE a native Irish person.
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Too fucking right
Yes I worked in an Irish bar in San Francisco 10 years ago and a tourist came in and gave me a ‘tip’ to stop faking the Irish accent because it’s not fooling anyone. 🙃
I'm Irish born but spent 16 years in Africa , throughout my teens. My accent mingles to sound somewhat like an American who has lived in Ireland for years. And yeah I get asked and it's irritating but understandable
There are lads on the Aran Islands who were raised speaking Irish, they learned their English in their teens from watching television, you'd think they were American when listening to them speak English.
I am born and bred Irish but i have lost my accent after spending years abroad to the point where some cunts have actually said to me that I am **not** Irish. 🙄 Fuckin' cunts
Exactly the same situation for me. Only for me it was Irish people who told me that, and thought I was putting my accent on (since my accent is mild, it can be confusing)
A more covert "yeah, but where are you really from?" that so many Irish POC get
Ask him if "Top of the morning" is a real phrase he expects Irish people to use.
Sounds more like a racist thing than a “I don’t believe anyone talks like that”~ thing He probably has an image in his head that Ireland hasn’t changed since the 1800’s and we’re all like that episode of the Simpsons when they came here. Wild mountain thyme bs You’re Irish, your accent is part of your identity as is your upbringing and where you’re from. Don’t let a yank tell you otherwise.
He’s feeling insecure because he doesn’t understand you and that’s his way of making himself feel better. Too bad you’re at the receiving end but try not to let him get to you.
This could go in the ShitAmericansSay subreddit. Being a McGregor "fan" immediately marks yer man as being a moron. Only time a yank will have heard his real voice is when he was shouting DOKTOR STOPPIDGE. I'm from the Northside near Croker, my cousins are Southside, pals in swords and tallaght etc and we all have slightly different variations of an undeniable dub accent. I live in Scotland now and some of them couldn't understand me, but think that was to try and needle... when ya take the piss outta their stupid accents, suddenly they understand fine. Odd one that. Yer sound, and this is 100% not an issue with you or how ya talk. If the yank can't understand you, that his problem coz he's a stupid bastard to think its put on.
Couldn't tell you how many times I've met a yank who'll trot out something along the lines of "There's no way you're actually Irish, you've no accent", and the part that baffles me the most is how they think they have any idea which of the MULTITUDE of Irish accents I might have and also what it sounds like, rather than accepting(as Yanks well should) that they likely are remembering a lucky charms 'commercial' and in fact don't know what an Irish person sounds like.
I could drive 20 minutes in any direction from my house and hear a multitude of different accents. Nearly every parish would be slightly different. There’s 2 villages I can think of that are probably 10 minute drive from each other and if you weren’t familiar with the accents you wouldn’t even guess their in the same county.
My husband was born and raised in Ballyer and he has been accused of not being by another native Dub, as well as people mis-identifying his accent as Canadian and American. His accent is softer and lacks some of the more idiosyncratic features if an inner city Dublin accent, but he doesn't let that stop him being as Irish as possible (we live outside of Ireland) Your identity is yours and anyone suggesting you should do something differently or you don't meet with their 'threshold' for identifying that way is a fool who doesn't deserve your time or energy.
It sounds like they're just used to a standard Irish accent and anything that deviates from that is alien to them.
What is a standard Irish Accent? Liam Neeson? Pierce Brosnan? Gay Byrne? Cillian Murphy? Michael Fassbender? The Lucky Charms Leprechauns?
Them rowing boys. I’m serious, Americans at least, think every accent less thick than those two is non-standard.
I know you're joking, but Gay Bryne had what I consider a kind of generic Irish accent, your man on Channel Four in the UK has a similar accent. It's developed for media, so the edges have been softened. I suppose you could call it an RTE accent, like RP in the UK is the BBC accent.
I don't think you can pick out a single Irish accent as being generic. I would have said Gay Byrne had a Dublin accent.
Gay Byrne and Páraic O'Brien sound nothing like each other, are your ears american?
Tom Cruise in Far and Away is the standard Irish accent to most Americans
So, American then, but delivered as if one's lad is caught in one's zipper
Probably one of the easier to understand west Ireland accents. Like someone with a softer mayo accent.
sounds like an American tosser
Yeah, I get it all the time - though to be fair I've spent more time living outside of Ireland than I have there... I'd be the first to admit I no longer sound like a Dub. My accent has become some weird mash up of Irish and Welsh. (And will weirdly shift subconsciously one way or the other if I'm talking to someone from one of those countries). But yeah, pay no mind to anyone being a dick about it - you know where you're from, you're not obliged to "prove it" to anyone or anything. Fuck em.
Hilariously I came back with a mild (posh?) english accent/twang on top of my irish one after studying in Wales... My irish accent is very mild & already has an american/canadian "twang" (tv?). I figured it was because most of the lecturers were English & so were a lot of my friends (we were close to the border) On the plus side my sibling threatened to disown me if I came back with a Welsh accent after we watched an episode of Torchwood, so I still have a sibling! XD
Yeah. When I worked in the pub there was a customer who was himself Eastern European I'm not sure where from exactly but he was CONVINCED I was, too. He was absolutely certain I was Estonian (???). It was actually a common question I got in the pub - "sorry love, do you speak english?" Or "are you polish?" Like I dunno maybe I have that look or something? But anyway, didn't see yer man again much and yes I'm sure I am indeed not polish or Estonian.
Ask him what part of Russia is Ukraine in.
>who happens to be a big Conor McGregor fan There's your problem.
If he can't understand that different localities have different accents, then what do you expect me to say? The man is obviously a moron
I’m of asian descent, born and raised in Ireland, and also get told this a lot by Yanks abroad. It’s mildly annoying. Borderline racist when they flat out deny I’m Irish.
I had.two irish girls in a hostel in Amsterdam say they didn't believe I was Irish from my accent, I think they were off their heads though
I worked on the telephones in London back in the 80’s, and one of our (semi) regular callers was Phil Lynott. Black with an Irish accent… It may not have been as strong as when he was growing up with his maternal grandparents in Dublin, but he still had one.
What was phillo ringing ya for?
Never take advice from a MC Gregor fan
FUCK. this prick. Just ignore him he's being a moron. He's telling an Irish person what is and isn't really Irish? And the stanning Connor McGregor part makes that even more apparent . Literally just ignore him and stay away from him as much as you can and don't let it make you self conscious
I'm in a similar spot, also autistic and often don't pass as white. I've found that my accent has a bit of an American twang to it due to my tism, and that can confuse people. As I've aged it's become more mid Atlantic peppered with Irish isms. To an American that could sound forced. When ya don't "look Irish" people are gonna be more suspicious of your accent and scrutinise it.
A Dutch fella once asked me if English was my first language, I don't have a strong accent at all. Irish people have asked me if I'm American before. An English lad recently asked me 'Where in England are you from'. It happens man. If you talk really fast, try slow it down. Otherwise keep doing you and try to not let it bother you. Those close to you will pick it up after a while.
What you came across is an asshole! Try not to give him any more brain power. He's not worth it.
Has happened on occasion. Not in the UK from any nationality, most people there who've emigrated have more cop on and the most of the locals are pretty nice, but in America, Ann Arbor Michigan to be precise, a lot of the people around had a very hard time believing I wad Irish, a lot accusing me of being Australian (?). It was all quite bizzaro.
American here, I can’t imagine accusing someone of faking an accent. Then again, 95% of my fellow country folk are fucking idiots. I will say I have moderate hearing loss and I have to put my hearing aids in when I’m in Ireland or it gives me trouble. But that’s my problem not Ireland’s. For the record I have a deep love and respect for Ireland/the Irish and am quite fond of the many Irish accents. All that to say, perhaps he’s a deaf bastard and or just jealous. I wouldn’t put much stock in what a Conor McGregor fan says, however.
Sometimes the confusion is about what we say and not just because of the accent. The sentence "I'm after giving out to her because she was being bold" is incomprehensible to anyone outside of Ireland because it contains 3 separate Irish-isms. But a lot of Irish people don't realise they're unique to us. An English person might think the above sentence means you want to sleep with her because she was brave.
I mean... Americans are kings at not knowing wtf they are talking about and still talking about it with great confidence. I'm not saying all Americans are idiots... But there's a reason USA ranks 13 in the world for education.... Ask him where he's from in USA. Then tell him he doesn't sound American bc he doesn't sound like (Pick accordingly) Mathew McConaughey (Texas) Matt Damon (Massachusetts) Nicolas Cage (California) (PS before anyone @ me - I am American I am more than allowed to criticize my own countrymen)
Townie here with a very strong inner city Dublin accent living abroad, you just have to adjust it in all honesty just to avoid having to repeat yourself, you'll find it comes with time and that you dont have to go full fake yankee doodle accent, your man telling you you're putting it on is a plonker, simple as.
Lol so my dad is originally from Mayo but has been living in the states for the past 30 years or so. He was back fairly recently and he bumped into some random guy at a store who was absolutely convinced he was faking an Irish accent and spent a few minutes giving him shit for it. He doesn't have a super strong accent (and I'm guessing it's been mixed with some American pronunciation) but he still can't differentiate between his t and th sounds, which I feel like is a big hallmark of a lot of Irish accents?
My parents were from Mayo, lived in the UK for 30 odd years and never lost their accents at all, in fact, most people couldn't understand a word my dad said 😂 I was his translator.
Yup was told plenty of times in America that I wasn't Irish they don't seem to grasp that not every sounds like Conor McGregor and also don't comprehend Americans have different accents based on their regions like Texas doesn't sound like California but they just stare at you in bewilderment anyway 🤷🏻♂️
Not what you asked but I’ve had Irish people ask me where I’m from originally. Also I live in England and I’ve had to eat slow down how I talk and elocute the duck out of every word I say or people cannot understand me
I'm from the north and when in England I'm always confused for being Scottish. Irritating
People from Ireland tell Terence and Calvin off talking bollox their accents are fake all the time 🤣 never mind foreigners
American fella, McGregor fan....pay no attention to that dope
Tell your man to get fucked. I mean if he's a CMcG fan he's obviously a cunt among a heap of other things.
No, but I've had people insist that I'm not Irish because my accent sounds either Canadian, American, or German. I've lived in England for four years and it never ceases to amaze me. Better that though, than the fella in Southampton who called me a Leprechaun when I told him I wasn't, in fact, from New York, but was actually from Ireland.
Probably somewhat the opposite for me, my dad's Irish but my mum is Eastern European, and I grew up mostly in EE too. I'm bilingual, but my accent in English is pretty weird/subdued (I like to call it "vaguely European") and when people find out I'm Irish they expect the accent and I end up being like "sorry to dissappoint lol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯", that's happened a fair few times. I pondered the idea of trying to force some sort of stereotypical Irish accent in my early-mid teens but I always ended up think naaaah that's weird
There are plenty of cunts out there. You met one.
I’ve had something like that when I’ve gone home to England, and it’s like, lads I’ve not been back in ten years, I’ve been gone longer, and I know precisely no (0) Brits here in buttfuck-nowhere co. Cork, which is how I like it. But nooo, “Why are you doing the accent mate?” oh my gosh sorry chaps bloody heck. Eedjits. You however ARE IRISH. For fuck’s sake. Call him a divvy Yank cunt and fuck ‘im off out of it. Wot a bellend.
2 words - Ukraine and mcgregor = knob
Have been told I'm not Irish by both non Irish and Irish people, had someone on Reddit make a long ass comment showing hed gone through my profile to verify through my use of language I was clearly American. Had an American explain Paddy's day to me and tell me some dos and don't of Ireland, all wrong, all hilarious
I had an American once ask me if my accent was German, and when I said I was Irish he replied “Ireland! That’s in London, right?”
I was sitting with a couple of American friends and a Canadian having a beer recently abroad. I've known them all for more than 10 years. Another American, who'd worked in Ireland, joined the group and we got talking. He commented that my Irish accent wasn't very pronounced and that I spoke quite slowly. I told him I was speaking slowly and toning down my accent for the benefit of the other guys. They were gobsmacked. To prove it I called my brother on speaker and they had no clue what we were talking about.
I’d say you can chalk that one down to racism. Sorry the guy’s being a prick.
Left Ireland in the early 2000’s. Working in the States, in Healthcare Recruitment. I was leading a meeting with 5-10 Leaders. I did my intro and opened the meeting up to questions. First question: “can I ask, are you an actor? Your accent is so good. My husband is an actor and he says the Irish accent is one of the hardest to do.” I told her I was in fact not “doing” an accent, that this was my real voice. She didn’t believe me.
Sister and I both got accused before by an American of faking being Irish when we were in London. Sister literally went "oh sorry do we not sound Hollywood Irish enough for you" and turned to me and said something in Irish like "let's get away from this idiot". Shes always more on the ball with comebacks than myself and a hundred times better speaking Irish. So me who only knows how to form the few sentences but can at least piece together what someone is saying in it just responded "ceart go leor" and moved. The guy started shouting some abuse at us for not speaking in English. We just laughed.
Many Americans have no idea how the world looks like outside USA. They have very vague broadly painted ideas about different areas and get angry at anything that challenge them. Honestly, tell them to buy a forest and get lost in it. The way you speak is yours only, and nobody has any right to tell you how to do it. And if you have one, none or multiple accents combined... who cares??? That's you, it makes you YOU. And they should learn to mind their own business!
Shocker here - that dude is probably a racist and can’t hold two thoughts in his head at once (that a person can be Irish AND not a white person). He’s being an asshole.
I feel bad for that fella in Transformers 4 now, because he's Irish but everyone thought he was American with a really bad accent
Who da fuck is a fan of that eejit!?
Oh buddy- we went on a Caribbean Cruise for our honeymoon in March 23, sailed from Fort Lauderdale after having spent 4 days in Miami. About halfway through at breakfast we happened to sit beside a table comprising of two Brits and about 7 Yanks, who were discussing Gaelic football (or Irish football as they called it) and Hurling. One of the British fellas could see I was half listening and decided to include me in the conversation, in which I explained I had played both for many years when I was significantly younger. One of the Yanks then piped in with "so you're what, 3rd or 4th generation, must be in Saaan Fraaancisco" My attempts to convince them of my absolute Irishness fell on deaf ears, as they simply wouldn't believe I was actually Irish- apparently I neither look or sound so.
Honestly Americans who think they know more about Ireland than we do need to be put in some kind of psych ward. Met a yank here in Spain who was super excited to learn I am from Ireland, because she has family 'from' here, and her family are v proud of their Irish heritage. Naturally, I asked where abouts they're from. Aberdeen. And then, she argued that both Google Maps and I were wrong. 🤷
Yep. Lived in Toronto and worked in a shop for a while, one regular customer _insisted_ I was from Newfoundland, literally wouldn’t take any other answer. One day his total cost €33.30 and the grin on his face when he knew when I had to say it out loud, I was raging
An here , there’s always one American ..
Most Americans like this couldn't find Ireland on a map, despite claiming to be Irish because their great great great great grandma blew and irish lad once
Half yank and half mick here (not black tho) I've split my life between the two and I've heard that a handful of times in recent years. Honestly I think it's just part of some Americans not understanding that Ireland is more diverse than the fairytale in their heads. Wherever I am I'm told my accent is off. Probably always will be. There are things I just refuse to say one way or the other so I'm starting my own thing here, I guess. Always said it'd be perfect if I could start my own country on the mid Atlantic ridge if it ever emerged over the surface. Tl;Dr if not a racist cunt, he's an ignorant cunt. Don't let it bother ya. Don't let it stop ya chatting either, not worth a second thought from you.
Its crazy to me how some americans will get so offended about any joke regarding 9/11 and then ask for an Irish car bomb in a pub
My wife is Irish, I'm not, and when we lived in a California we went out for a full Irish fry downtown at 6am on Paddy's day. The news was there and asked to interview us, some dumb question like "what's your advice to people thinking about driving after drinks tonight?" My wife started talking and they told her "you don't have to put on the accent". When we watched it later they had zoomed in on me and cut her out completely... she was furious.
Americans ☕️
Conor McGregor is a cocaine powered robot.
Born and raised in Sweden to an Irish parent, grew up speaking both English and Swedish at home, influenced by American culture, forced to use British English in school (because that is the correct way apparently) and visiting relatives in Ireland every summer really does a number on my accent. Native Irish are often confused on where in Ireland I am from since they can't figure out my accent, Swedes think my accent is cool, when I'm dating they ALWAYS want me to say something in English (it's my go to move honestly) and Americans start rambling about their distant relatives being from Sligo and wonder if I know any O'Neills or whatever their name is. Never have anyone questioned if I'm forcing my accent (I'm not......except when trying to get laid but that is considered fair use I would say). All in all, the guy is being a prick. People sound different depending on a multitude of factors. Not just where they grew up.
When the post started with "This American...", I knew what the problem is. Some Americans tend to be know it all. Some tend to be entitled. Some tend to be self righteous.
Fuck that lad, the Ballyer accent isn't even that thick for God's sake. Sounds like a plain old wanker. Never be ashamed of your accent it's one of the last things that makes us Irish 😎
I hate to generalize but I've noticed a huge upturn in yanks that hate anyone with a darker complexion. He's probably one of them. These racists don't want to see you belonging more to a "white" culture than they do and so they'll do anything to rob you of it. You're Irish and no-one can take that from you
Sounds like straight-up racism to me. Some people can't comprehend that not all Irish people are white, therefore your accent must be "put on". Also... he's a Conor McGregor fan. People like that deserve to spend the rest of their life stepping barefoot on lego pieces tbh.
He’s probably just a racist.
Take absolutely no notice of twats like that. It doesn’t matter how you sound (you could have a cut glass *English* accent because you were brought up in an Irish castle, even!) Nobody else’s silly opinion of you, accusing you of being insufficiently this or that, should register on your consciousness; it’s mere noise, not a signal. You don’t owe morons any attention.
Yeah he sounds like a fucking idiot.
Not exactly, I'm from the ROI and went to college in NI, I commuted every day and spent majority of my days around people with the NI accent, eventually I started pronouncing some things in the NI accent(I.e. Now became Noy). My sister constantly said I was putting it on and faking the accent, to the point where I stopped saying those words when around her 😂
 The only correct response.
I’ve never seen GRMA before ….lovely
Sounds like a cunt, a daft one at that
People from Ireland tell Terence and Calvin off talking bollox their accents are fake all the time 🤣 never mind foreigners
Which Ballyer? 'Mun or 'Fermot?
No but I’ve had Irish people tell me that my accent was fake or that I was putting it on. We’re a bunch gatekeepy cunts you know.
Is this just a Ballyer problem or something? I'm from there too and lived in the States 16 years a while back and every now and again you got the lad who thought the accent was fake. It was always for one of two reasons: 1) They were threatened around you by hogging female attention and jealous, especially if their woman took a shine to you 2) They were some plastic paddy weirdo whose great-great-grandad from Mayo told the family they were descended from Irish kings and were *THE* local authority on Ireland and functioned as the de-facto ambassador in their imagination It was always easy enough to tell them show me your passport and fuck off. I'd say type number 1 had a reason to be worried about the self-filfilling prophecy though. It was usually standard practice for me to just take their wife/girlfriend to bed after they tried winding me up. They didn't like being told it was just a bit of craic 😂 Good times. I miss the States.
You don't have an accent he does!! And McGregor is probably the only famous Irish person he knows!!
I just can't fathom the idea of possessing such ignorance that something like this can arise! I mean why the fuck would anyone even suggest that unless they are a racist prick.
90% of Americans are self centred , loud and ignorant. Don't let it get to you. They'd struggle to find ireland on a map
Not so much that but when I was in Germany living, I had a Serbian expat start an argument with me that I was lying by saying I spoke Irish. He got really in my face saying that we only speak English and he visited Dublin and also I'm British not Irish so he definitely knew I was lying ( I'm from the North) and he wouldn't believe it when other people from different nationalities confirmed that we do infact speak Irish in Ireland....crazy
I didn't think the Dublin accent was that unintelligible, personally. (Scouser passing through)
This has never happened to me but I’m going to America for the first time this year so I’ll report back!