Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    How to be Irish
    How to be Irish
    How to be Irish
    Ebook15 pages17 minutes

    How to be Irish

    By Denis O'Neill

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    A short 3000 word booklet on the Irish dialect spoken daily. the pronunciations, the syntax and a little history of the version of English known officially as Hiberno-English

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDenis O'Neill
    Release dateMar 12, 2018
    ISBN9781370114184
    How to be Irish
    Author

    Denis O'Neill

    I have always had an affection for poetry. Robert Burns would be my number one. I am single and live alone, I just love to write.

    Read more from Denis O'neill

    Related to How to be Irish

    Related ebooks

    Foreign Language Studies For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      A Donnybrook At Dunlaoghaire

      Feb 5, 2024

      A Donnybrook At Dunlaoghaire
      2 min read

    • Article

      The Science Of Accents

      Apr 4, 2021

      The Science Of Accents
      5 min read

    • Article

      SPOKEN Like A LOCAL

      Mar 1, 2024

      The Yorkshire Dialect Society was formed in 1897, out of the ashes of the Yorkshire committee of the English Dialect Society. The latter had decided to wind up after the culmination of work for the English Dialect Dictionary, which was edited by York

      2 min read

    • Article

      ‘Are We Reyt?’: The Course That Aims To Revive The Yorkshire Dialect

      Oct 15, 2023

      “Mek thisen at ‘ome, lass,” says Rod Dimbleby, shortly after the Guardian arrives at his Yorkshire dialect class. He introduces the group of nearly two-dozen mostly grey-haired students. They pipe up cheerily: “Na then,” and “ey up!” “Are we reyt?” h

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Beauty Of LANGUAGE

      Feb 4, 2021

      What does a Jerusalem artichoke have to do with Jerusalem? Why do we fall head over heels when that’s the right way up? And doesn’t having your cake and eating it make total sense? If you’ve ever pondered any of these linguistic curiosities, the answ

      3 min read

    • Article

      A Doric Column From Scotland

      Jul 27, 2022

      Gaelic seems to be flourishing. More than 1.1 million people have been learning Gaelic on a website called Duolingo since the start of the pandemic. I am not among them. There’s certainly something romantic about Gaelic – a language with all its lett

      3 min read

    • Article

      Triumph Of Te Reo

      Sep 11, 2023

      Triumph Of Te Reo
      4 min read

    • Article

      What’s a Language, Anyway?

      Jan 19, 2016

      What’s a Language, Anyway?
      7 min read

    • Article

      My View...

      Jul 21, 2022

      My View...
      2 min read

    • Article

      Talkback

      Aug 28, 2022

      As an ex-Northlander, I watched with great interest the 1 News report (August 19) on the flooding up north. I was somewhat surprised to hear the reporter say: “Twenty-four hours and around 200ml of rain, leaving a lot of the Far North under water …”

      2 min read

    • Article

      This is Like, TOTALLY Weird

      Nov 21, 2021

      This is Like, TOTALLY Weird
      11 min read

    • Article

      Super-duper Reduplicative Words

      Jul 2, 2020

      Super-duper Reduplicative Words
      2 min read

    • Article

      Food’s Greedy Appetite For Foreign Words

      Feb 9, 2022

      In the aviary of languages, English is a jackdaw or a magpie, a bird that steals widely and insouciantly. Grammarians call this readiness to pinch foreign words ‘borrowing’, but it’s not the kind encouraged by your bank. True, the purloining of words

      2 min read

    • Article

      KAN JAG LÄRA MIG SVENSKA?Can i Learn SWEDISH?

      Sep 1, 2022

      KAN JAG LÄRA MIG SVENSKA?Can i Learn SWEDISH?
      1 min read

    • Article

      The Waning Use Of The Word ‘Whom’

      May 16, 2019

      Whom is now mostly relegated to written language, appearing in literature, academic papers, and the Mueller report.

      2 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for How to be Irish

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      How to be Irish - Denis O'Neill

      HOW TO BE IRISH

      By Denis O’Neill

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

      PUBLISHED BY:

      Denis O’Neill on Smashwords

      How to be Irish

      Copyright © 2018 by Denis O’Neill

      Written by Denis O’Neill

      Non adult material though reader discretion is advised. Not suitable for young children

      *****

      Understanding Hiberno-English – The everyday language of Irish folk.

      How many times have we sat and listened to highly paid American actors make a total haems of the Irish accent and dialect. I’m not going to name and shame; they probably think the same about the Irish attempts at an American accent. Ireland has possibly the most accents per square mile than any other country in the world. Every county in Ireland has a distinctive tone of phrase and accent. Some counties have three or four accents within the county. Dublin is a prime

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1