A Guide to The Cork Accent, Ireland 1972

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Cork actor James N Healy takes a look at the history of Cork accents through the ages.
There’s one thing about us in Cork. We have a beautiful accent.
Cork man James Healy disputes that Dublin view that the Cork accent goes up and down. He does acknowledge that there is more than one accent in Cork but they are all Cork. He says that the Cork accent was started by Saint Finbarr when he came down to Cork from the west of Ireland in the sixth century to build a church. A Scandinavian touch was added to the accent with the arrival of the Danes a few centuries later. Then came the Welsh Normans. After that, the English would arrive for the summer season and add their bit to the vocal cocktail that is the Cork accent. In the 18th century, the French Huguenots arrived contributing the “harsh, shrill side of our accent”.
The accent ranges from the sound of the Cork street trader to the fruity tones of the Montenotte.
In its extreme form, it’s probably like somebody trying to eat a hot potato while giving a confidential message at the same time.
There is also the “Roches Stores” accent but the most genuinely Cork accent is probably that of Blackpool, the living quarters of the Celts who clustered around the northside of the old city. To hear a genuine accent, visit an old Blackpool pub.
This is somewhat nasal, spoken out of the corner of the mouth and with a sense of irony.
This episode of ‘Hall’s Pictorial Weekly’ was broadcast on 21 October 1972.
Frank Hall’s amusing and satirical series began on 29 September 1971 with the full title “Hall’s Pictorial Weekly Incorporating the Provincial Vindicator” which became known as “Hall’s Pictorial Weekly”.
The series allowed Frank Hall to follow his own interest in the lives of viewers throughout the country. Regarded as RTE’s flagship comedy show, it featured satirical sketches on current news stories and popular culture, as well as parody songs, comedy sketches, re-edited videos, cartoons and spoof television formats. The show ran for 9 series until 1980.

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@mrsinn2642 Жыл бұрын

What a character, he was ahead of his time.

@taraaquariustarot Жыл бұрын

I was lucky to visit this city several times, and live there for a few months in the late '90's - 2000, working on the Northside of the Lee and living South, the accents were very different, and their sense of humor! Every corner of Cork is lovely, best place to take long walks and think deeply, so many kind people there. Thanks for all the nice videos, Happy Easter to you!❤🍀

@sitaruim Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing

@masterchief-vd1xs Жыл бұрын

Lovely city? This was before my time. Best city for going out but the rest...

@finolaomurchu8217 Жыл бұрын

The Cork Blackpool accent is the best.☘️🧚‍♂️

@adriancimino9702 4 ай бұрын

Where my Ma is from 💚

@pascalennis9123 Жыл бұрын

Cork,a lovely city ,

@Khatoon170 Жыл бұрын

Iam Arabic lady subscriber to several British and American KZbin channels. I learned there are American southern English or Appalachian English. Actually I love both accents American and English but England have great civilization and authenticity but USA have one of most complex cultural identities in world . Thank you for your wonderful cultural documentary channel. Happy Easter best wishes for you your family friends.

@Khatoon170 Жыл бұрын

Sorry imean British and American accents.

@Khatoon170 Жыл бұрын

Cork accent is touch of Jamaican , perhaps bit of welsh .cork accent was started by saint fin Barr when he came down to cork from west of Ireland in sixth century to build church .scandinvain touch was added to accent of Danes few centuries later , then came Welsh Norman’s .

@K4inan Жыл бұрын

@@Khatoon170 Jamaican is a touch of cork, not the other way around.

@ifjchsiwocjcjs4378 10 ай бұрын

@@K4inanexactly

@Beautifullife-mp5mz 5 ай бұрын

Ireland is not Britain. Northern Ireland is though.

@brianoc7926 Жыл бұрын

hahaha brilliant. He's very good at the accents in fairness!

@olanmcevoy8581 Жыл бұрын

That's brilliant! I lost my accent when I moved away and now living abroad for years whenever I hear a proper Cork accent it makes me homesick

@seventus Жыл бұрын

Lot of diversity in the accents back then, unlike nowadays.

@richiehoyt8487 7 ай бұрын

You've gotta be kidding, the number of accents (not to mind, languages) to be heard on the streets of Cork City these days! Not by any means a bad thing either, although I acknowledge some may differ. Still, I have to admit to being a bit 'smart' (or trying to be, maybe,) and I do know what you're saying. I haven't _lived_ in Cork for over 30 years, though I do visit as often as I can, so I can't _really_ say, but I suspect you're right, that a lot of those nuances have gotten smoothed out. Seems to be the way with everything, nowadays. Ah, when I was a 'bie'... in them days, the Woodbines were only a penny a pint... ( _'ráiméish'_ ~es away interminably in background...)

@sebastianabsalon259 Жыл бұрын

Amazing! I have never been to Ireland and I would love to visit Cork, now that I have seen this reportage. 🌞

@jamesbradshaw3389 Жыл бұрын

You will receive a very warm welcome when you arrive, you will be in for a great surprise, you will want to stay

@michaelwalsh9145 Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately the cork accent is dying out because of the ear grating mid Atlantic accent that people have cultivated since the 1970’s because they stupidly think it makes them sound more important.

@zerozedzaki 9 ай бұрын

@@michaelwalsh9145bruh tell me about it, most people from town sound like their american.

@kerinfaulkner4537 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant,thank ye,love from Awstraylia ☘️🍀☘️🤣

@unknown_user8449 Жыл бұрын

Yes b'y

@Ishkybibble Жыл бұрын

This guy reminds me of James “Our Jimmy” Young

@jamesbradshaw3389 Жыл бұрын

I once asked the man whom I was talking to, what part of Wales do you come from, His accent was very similar to what you would find in parts of Wales, I surprise when he got upset and said he was from Co Cork,

@MiloManning05 Жыл бұрын

West Country planters mostly came from wales as opposed to Devon , that influenced the cork accent as the settlers mixed with the natives in the 1600s

@TheEggmaniac 7 ай бұрын

I had a similar experience once. I heard some folk speaking who I thought were Welsh, but it turned out they were from Cork.

@richiehoyt8487 7 ай бұрын

I very often got taken for Welsh when I lived in London... or Geordie, ie the North~East, around Newcastle.

@spamgarbage6999 8 ай бұрын

He inhabits these accents. He is the accent

@patriciaoreilly8907 Жыл бұрын

Lol 😊 the shawl scene 😊

@B-realz Ай бұрын

This guy has no filter lol im 💀🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Hsalf904 Жыл бұрын

My goodness this sounds like a Newfoundland or Cape Breton accent

@sdrtcacgnrjrc Жыл бұрын

Some of the accents over there sound like local Irish accents. I guess there's a reason for that ...

@usandusonly32 Жыл бұрын

I moved to Vancouver over 10 years ago. First job site I was on a Canadian lad asked me what part of Newfoundland was I from? I said I'm not from Newfoundland at all, I'm from Cork 😂

@gslide06 2 ай бұрын

My second home, best music city.

@Greezy_DZ 2 ай бұрын

This guys hilarious

@jasonpalacios1363 8 ай бұрын

You can hear the Jamaican/Caribbean accent in this man.

@richiehoyt8487 7 ай бұрын

I've often heard that said... perhaps there's _something_ to it, since back in Cromwellian times the British _did_ export a lot of Irish prisoners of war to either the West Indies (or Caribbean, if you prefer; mostly to Barbados though, where we got the moniker of 'Redlegs'.) Also to the Carolinas. This was as literal, _actual_ slaves, before the Atlantic slave trade really kicked into high gear, although you're not really 'allowed' to say that, nowadays. Even after Black slavery became the norm, many Irish continued to wind up in the Americas as indentured servants. The argument could be made, counterintuitive though it may be, that this was in some respects _worse_ than being a captive slave, but such a discussion is probably outside the purview of this comments section! It is also the case that Jamaica has its 'lost' White tribes, by which I do _not_ mean Ian Fleming types 'gone native'! [sic] Whether or not these folks have Irish, let alone Cork, ancestry though, I honestly have no idea! As for the larger question of whether Jamaican, or West Indian in general, accents have been coloured by contacts with Cork people; well it's an intriguing and romantic idea, but, while putting up my hands to having no special knowledge on the subject whatsoever, it is my feeling that, as film industry lawyers might put it, "any resemblance is entirely co~incidental".

@mahirhussain4890 4 ай бұрын

The Jamaican accent comes from Irish

@SabrinaHeaphy Жыл бұрын

The cork ❤

@immaterialimmaterial5195 2 ай бұрын

Hilarious guy!!!

@johnlombard8962 Жыл бұрын

Not a bother boy

@JohnSpicebag Жыл бұрын

Bai

@angieogden2308 Жыл бұрын

my mother's birth place

@RedNightDragon1 21 күн бұрын

"French people called Hugenots, or something like that ..." 😅

@terrell112 7 ай бұрын

Who where the Cramer family from Cork? That's my grandfather's father's side DNA through a man name Ambrose Nicolas Yates (Cramer) he took up a man that wasn't his father last name which was (Yates) so my DNA & last name should be of a Cramer.