Irish people protect the authenticity of our accents as the Italians do with their food, writes Peter Flanagan.

‘Very specific differences in language, dialect and accents have emerged over time, and that's a fascinating side of language evolution.’ By Laura Baisas Published Nov 19, 2024 7:01 PM EST Deposit ...

A study released in 2021 ranked the Irish accent as one of the least annoying accents in the world. The Knowledge Academy, a business training website based in Belfast, asked 500 people to listen to a ...

Two scientists at Amazon used artificial intelligence to help them make Alexa Irish. The team trained Alexa on accents generated by text-to-speech models. This then helped them identify distinctive ...

The works of William Shakespeare are classics, and rightly so, but the language used by the playwright can sometimes feel like quite difficult to understand. Given the archaic language used and the ...

Kenneth Branagh has opened up on how he lost his Belfast accent, his fear of Protestant fire and brimstone preachers, and how his early success actually damaged his career because of jealousy aimed at ...

Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ranging ...

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 ...

James Norton has revealed that he was "terrified" of getting his Irish accent wrong in House of Guinness. The English actor plays Sean Rafferty, a foreman at the Guinness brewery, in a new series ...