DUBLIN — Like Henry Higgins, the phonetician from George Bernard Shaw’s play “Pygmalion,” Marius Cotescu and Georgi Tinchev recently demonstrated how their student was trying to overcome pronunciation ...

An American man who had never been to Ireland began speaking in an Irish accent after developing a rare form of cancer, according to a study published by BMJ in January. The man, who was being treated ...

The man was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer when he started talking with an Irish accent. Robina Weermeijer via Unsplash An American man suddenly started talking with an Irish accent during ...

He came down with a bad case of blarney. An American cancer patient developed an “uncontrollable” Irish accent in a possible neurological disorder triggered by his immune system, according to ...

The man developed an Irish brogue even though he had never been to locations in Ireland like Dublin, pictured here. (Photo by Robert Alexander/Getty Images) This may have been a wee bit of a surprise.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — If these walls could talk, they’d surely do so in an Irish brogue. McGinnity’s Restaurant & Party House is closing Wednesday. Bridie McGinnity and her late husband Seamus, an Irish ...

1000 YEARS OF IRISH PROSE (607 pp.)—Edited by Vivian Mercier and David H. Greene—Devin-Adair ($6). “A healthy nation,” wrote Bernard Shaw in 1906, “is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy ...