Irish accent 

(Greater Dublin)
Ana Basar

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences,

University of Osijek
Geographical
position

•  Ireland
•  Counties of Dublin (Dublin City, South   
  Dublin, Dún Laoghaire-   
Rathdown and Fingal)
•  Meath, Kildare and Wicklow
 CONSONANTS

• no h-dropping (her house)

Phonetic • th-stopping (think, third, fourth, the)

charateristics • /rm/, /lm/ produced with /ə/-insertion (arm, film)

• final r; sounded (her house, dark) 
                not sounded (there, ever, never)
• non-final r realized as a strong tap (Gerry, brown)
• final t realized as a weak dental fricative or
approximant (that)
 VOWELS

Phonetic • i: replacing ɪ (holy, family)

• eɪ replacing i: (feet, tea)
charateristics • æ more opened (black)
• ɜ: sounds like ɔː (her)
• vowels ɔɪ and aɪ may have no contrast (tile)
• u: is a wide glide (two)
 Celebrities

Bono 

• Paul David Hewson

• Born in Dublin, 1960
• Irish singer (U2)
• Human rights activist
 Celebrities

Conor McGregor

• Conor Anthony McGregor

• Born in Dublin, 1988
• Mixed martial artist
• UFC fighter
References

• Bono | Biography, Music, U2, Activism, & Facts | Britannica

• Collins, B., and Mees, I. M. (2013) Practical Phonetics and Phonology, a Resource book for students
• Conor McGregor Stats, News, Bio | ESPN
• (137) Dublin Accent - YouTube
• (137) Lessons in Dublin Dialect | Brendan O'Connor's Cutting Edge | RTÉ One - YouTube
• The Greater Dublin Area (GDA region) (slideshare.net)
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