When performed well, the lilting brogue of the Irish accent sounds mellifluous and musical. When performed poorly, it can sound campy—even egregious. But what makes one Irish accent good and another ...

In the past few years, two Irish men have gotten Best Actor Oscar nominations and neither of them were playing Irish characters. For Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy, who won the award, practiced the ...

Accent, it turns out, is a bit of a battleground. While Ireland has an astonishing number of regional accents relative to its small size, few are internationally recognised. Send an American or a Brit ...

You better knock off that awful attempt at a Scottish brogue, mate: A team of researchers has found that people in the northern United Kingdom and Ireland are especially good at telling when you’re ...