I did enjoy this video very much. I am writing from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. My father's paternal side, was originally from Donegal. They traveled to Newfoundland, in the 1840s, settling in Harbor Grace. I thought that it was very effective, the choice that you made to put together a series of miscellaneous media clips, which gives a more well rounded representation, of the accent as a whole - its common similarities, subtleties and variations. Have always been curious about how the accent sounds, so I thank you so much for posting! Cheers!
Half Donegal, half Highland Scot, do you think that's where my love of the uisge beatha came from? If I wasn't living in the Highlands, I would happily live in Donegal: it wouldn't be that difficult to convert my Gaidhlig to Gaeilge. Best county in Ireland.
Story goes that my great great grandfather was shipwrecked off New Brunswicki n about 1814. He was from Aughatty? He then got down to New York, then to South Carolina and graduated from the University of South Carolina. He taught mathematics for a time, there, but partied a bit and lost his position. He and his wife became owners of the Merchants hotel in Charleston South Carolina and he died there about 1847. I found a gravestone in the beautiful Magnolia Cemetary dedicated to him, but am told there is no body in the grave site. He did miss Donegal and his friends dedicated the stone to him for his friendship to them.
Worked for a year in Enniskillen, spent most of my weekends roaming the many roads of Donegal. This rings a bell. Oh, yeah, beside the craic, I couldn't get a word of what the locals could be telling me... The French in me got lost... in the pints of Guinness...
excuse me! im from donegal and my accent is not weird! and maybe you should keep your thoughts to yourself! p.s Donegal is the most beutiful place on Earth!
The Inishowen accent is the nicest to my ear. I worked in Killybegs for a few years, it took me about 6 months before I understood everything I was hearing. e.g. There was a girl called Jimmy, which I found extremely odd, until one day it clicked and I realised her name was actually Gemma.
ye forgot all the hot spots if tourists are watching this video!!...>>Letterkenny,Ramelton,Milford,Cranford,Downings,Dunfanaghy,Glenveigh,Portsalon/Fanad,Kerrykeel,Kilmac,..I'm sort of sorry to see these towns aren't mentioned in this video!!..
My gram told me about her grandfather when I started genealogy research as a hobby. She adored him but he is a bit of a pain in the butt because she knows very little of his past. she told me when she was a kid he would shoo her away when she ask him about his life in Ireland. the only two things she could really tell me was he was from Donegal and he had a thick accent. lol
@@cianmc8916 Yes of course my mam is from an tiny village called dromore between killygordon and the crossroads. 3 miles from Ballybofey. Don't forget Villa Rose and Kees
I have an ancestor who came from Donegal, and I was wondering what he might have sounded like in his speech...sadly, I don't know what part of Donegal he lived in!
Join an ancestry group. My dads grandfather , Odonnells came from Glenties, donegal and co cork, Mclaughlins. I didn’t know any of this until recently.
Beautiful all, Nothing to fight about, North to South , East to West, to the Aran Islands, The envy of the world, in Song and story..... Ireland .......My Island !!!!
The first guy sounded very welsh, south welsh valleys to be precise id know im from pontrhydyfen in the valleys. noticed it straight away with some of the words he was saying.
Part of me expected a thick south accent of some form but it makes sense that it sounds like the North as it is in fact the Ulster accent which includes Donegal
I've noticed 2 people based in, or near, letterkenny speak with a Donegal accent that sounds very Welsh. They're not related but they both have this accent. Any idea of where this comes from? As an example, "Aye, no bother" becomes "aye, no bovah" and " out the door" becomes " out the doah "
@@biptyb5561 none of it comes from any sort of English accent. Aye, and no bother, are commonly said around Donegal. Derry and Donegal accent is strongly related and a lot of the same kind of expressions are used
My Granny came from Ballybofey. We would chuckle when she count in the 30's & 40's. It sounded like Turdies and Farties. She was also wicked & crazy and would bark at us in Irish.
So many sound half Republic and half North. So interesting. Many of the expressions that are otherwise only in use in the North or the Republic are used with equal frequency in Donegal. I think that's lovely.
***** People will just argue about any thing on the internet. Have you truly no idea what I meant? Must I in fact explain it? Well, first of all, why would I be referring to Cork or Dublin? The most obvious counties in the Republic for the present comparison would be the ones near Donegal. Not literally the opposite ends of the country in both directions. That's first. Second, the fact that Donegal is actually in the Republic (meaning continued influence from the Republic), and the historical reasons why it's in the Republic (meaning the sources of Republic pronunciations at the start), have led to sounding more Republic than most of the counties in the North, speaking broadly. There are areas in Donegal where this doesn't hold true, like Inishowen, especially South Inishowen, but overall, it is, more so in the Gaeltacht (for example, throughout the North they can pronounce TH sounds like the English, but in much of Donegal they use the sound of the Republic for that, which isn't quite a T or D sound in English but is closer, one of the most salient features of Irish speech in fact; it is the T and D from Gaeilge if you're wondering). Maybe they don't sound *half* Republic as I erroneously for ease of reading and typing may have stated above. I hardly thought anyone would come looking for the fecking percentages but I am on TH-cam after all... Third, I actually have per centages, I just can't be arsed to type them out. So, do have a look at this if you like: npu.edu.ua/!e-book/book/djvu/A/iif_kgpm_Hickey%20R.%20Irish%20English%20History%20and%20Present-Day%20Forms..pdf
Ei’ríġ Proinsias Dammantaċ Ó Gamhna. Accents don't evolve out of political states, if that was the case I would speak with a London accent in Derry and would be using slang such as "innit mate" and "bruv". The southerners would have sounded like that before the partition in the 1920's, also most of the Donegal people I have heard do pronounce the "th", southerners actually can as well but just find it difficult when speaking fast just like people in other areas have problems with a word such as "three" when speaking fast, it us often pronounced as "free" in england and in ulster as well. You need to remember that Ulster Irish, which was the dialect spoken in most of Ulster for years was very different to the southern dialects, it was more similar to Scottish Gaelic and Manx so the modern accents are different. Another think that should be mentioned is that south tyrone and south armagh actually sound more like "the republic" than donegal do. The accents take no notice of the political border.
J. o'neill Sorry, I've just written an immense reply and clicked outside the box, closing it. I'm not doing it again. Just, I know what I meant, I'm not wrong, and it seems to have been fairly misunderstood. I'll try to write something, though. I never meant that political states are the alpha and omega of pronunciation, but they absolutely hold influence. I gave examples of South Dublin's historically posh London pronunciation and the fact that television in Donegal was Republic television (and radio), not Norther Irish television, back when there was more of a distinction. And before the 1920s people had made their political alignments, there just weren't the same names. Hence, everyone knew that Donegal would be in the Republic and most of Ulster wouldn't. Most people do pronounce the 'TH' in Donegal but more don't than in the rest of the North (at least in my experience, which isn't too much with Northerners but they've always pronounced it in my recollection save some Donegal people). I cringe when people in the Republic pronounce the TH. Anyone that does is affecting it. It is absolutely not a part of Irish speech outside of Ulster, and in the border counties I have never heard it. I'm not saying it never happens but if it does it's rare. In the rest of the country it would always be an affectation (though it used to be somewhat common in Dublin so it's occasionally found there in natural speech). It should be noted that pronouncing it as an Englsih T or D is pretty rare these days. They're usually pronunced as a Gaeilge T or D which may not be as noticeable a difference. But 'three' is often 'chree'. I'm not that familiar with Northern accents but in my experience they sound very different, so when I hear someone from Donegal and I hear obvious Southern qualities I take notice. Maybe Tyone and Armagh do at times sound more like the Republic. But I've defintiely spoken to people from both counties that didn't, at least as much as some Donegal people. You can look in the document I've posted above, and do a find for Donegal. You'll find a lot of information there that supports what I'm saying.
Ei’ríġ Proinsias Dammantaċ Ó Gamhna. What are you on about? They sound northern because they are from northern (not Northern-political) Ireland. They don't sound southern at all!! Listen to someone from Enniskillen, or someone from south Armagh. You are talking nonsense it has to be said.
Ei’ríġ Proinsias Dammantaċ Ó Gamhna. Also, the article you posted a link to was written by a German. I would love to give you a selection of excerpts from people on both sides of the Irish border. I'd be willing to bet money you couldn't determine which were from the republic and which were from the north, unless you are comparing people from Belfast, Larne, Carrickfergus etc to people from Derry or Donegal.
It just shows how different education/surrondings/mixing of cultures have on accents. My mother and father were from donegal 20 miles apart, born in the mid/late 40s, accents have/will change, some of the accents of this video don't sound specific to donegal at all never mind parts of the county, bit pointless really.
My mother was from this county, but she past away 20 years ago. I just wanted to her that accent again. Thanks for uploading the video.
Mine as well. From Fanad.
Timothy O'Brien .y Grandparents were from Fanad! Lovely place
I love accente and im sorry about you mam
bless
She died in my arms
Just in case the Donegal accent shows up in my Irish listening tomorrow
Literally what I'm doing rn
Good luck
Yes boy
Did it?
Is donegal classed as irish/Ireland?
Voted best accent in the world. Aye it was.
Ah shite.. this is how im heard.. im shutting up
Never.
Nobody said ''Aye''
the fact that nobody said 'ayeeeeeeee' makes the whole video an epic fail.
Aye that’s right y’know...
Or 'Wee'un'.
Say ayeeee while breathing in
I did enjoy this video very much. I am writing from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. My father's paternal side, was originally from Donegal. They traveled to Newfoundland, in the 1840s, settling in Harbor Grace. I thought that it was very effective, the choice that you made to put together a series of miscellaneous media clips, which gives a more well rounded representation, of the accent as a whole - its common similarities, subtleties and variations. Have always been curious about how the accent sounds, so I thank you so much for posting! Cheers!
Ahhh nothing like someone from Bundoran talking about surfing.
Not easy now because the sheep are wearing face nappies
I'm from Donegal but I moved to america when I was 11 and I lost most of my accent😭, I can't even do one properly anymore
Same here, but I moved to London. So I sound more cockney now, but I still use use wee for small,and I say surely quite a bit too
Half Donegal, half Highland Scot, do you think that's where my love of the uisge beatha came from? If I wasn't living in the Highlands, I would happily live in Donegal: it wouldn't be that difficult to convert my Gaidhlig to Gaeilge. Best county in Ireland.
Story goes that my great great grandfather was shipwrecked off New Brunswicki n about 1814. He was from Aughatty? He then got down to New York, then to South Carolina and graduated from the University of South Carolina. He taught mathematics for a time, there, but partied a bit and lost his position. He and his wife became owners of the Merchants hotel in Charleston South Carolina and he died there about 1847. I found a gravestone in the beautiful Magnolia Cemetary dedicated to him, but am told there is no body in the grave site. He did miss Donegal and his friends dedicated the stone to him for his friendship to them.
Excellent clips. Beautiful soft musical accent.
My great grandma is from donegal I was wondering what the people sounded like there :)
Best people.
Worked for a year in Enniskillen, spent most of my weekends roaming the many roads of Donegal. This rings a bell. Oh, yeah, beside the craic, I couldn't get a word of what the locals could be telling me... The French in me got lost... in the pints of Guinness...
I LOVE the Letterkenny accent just love it!
excuse me! im from donegal and my accent is not weird! and maybe you should keep your thoughts to yourself!
p.s Donegal is the most beutiful place on Earth!
no it isnt the most beautiful place
Weird..
@celestial rex you scumbag
I love donegal 🥰
I hear this all the time in Canada!
The Inishowen accent is the nicest to my ear. I worked in Killybegs for a few years, it took me about 6 months before I understood everything I was hearing. e.g. There was a girl called Jimmy, which I found extremely odd, until one day it clicked and I realised her name was actually Gemma.
Where in killybegs?? I'd love to see if you knew my grandad
@@ellisquinn6936 I worked on the trawlers 80-84
They all sound a lot like me - and I'm from south Down!
My family is from donegal on my dad's side but I am from America so I wanted to know what the donegal accent sounds like
My favourite county! Thanks for the lovely sounds of Donegal!
Seamie from my home town, such a laddd
Eithne's accent is so pretty. 💙
ye forgot all the hot spots if tourists are watching this video!!...>>Letterkenny,Ramelton,Milford,Cranford,Downings,Dunfanaghy,Glenveigh,Portsalon/Fanad,Kerrykeel,Kilmac,..I'm sort of sorry to see these towns aren't mentioned in this video!!..
Killmacreanan accent are lovely cause my voice is lovely
Enjoyed it very much. Thank you for sharing this.
I did enjoy it! When the "byrnes" came to America that was my family. I don't know in Donegal where the Byrnes were from. Wish I knew.
All the aul ones are mad for Daniel O'Donnell hahah
Love all the accents ,my GT.gt.grandparents married in Bellek.
I have a teacher and I didn't know what accent she had and I found out now she has a Donegal accent
This song is sang by a co donegal band called Goats don't shave n they made their name in my home town of Killybegs Co.Donegal Ireland
sweetprincess Andrea no they didnt they are from dungloe burtonport area
I had a Glenties accent until I was 6.
2:08 - 2:38 anyone know the name of the Waltz music playing in the background? beautiful
My favourite Accent in the world,of course i'm biased as I have family from St. John's Point
I love the woman explaining that you're supposed to clap on 2 and 4 XD
My driving tester knew exactly where I was from after I said my first sentence. 300 km from the test centre.
He took you 300k on your driving test?
No, he knew where I was from. Driving test was about 3 km. But to recognise my accent to the exact village, was amazing.
@@bridgetcarr1236 To recognise your Donegal accent is one thing but to pinpoint the exact village??? was the tester ur ould fella😄😄😄
The bundoran accent has a hint of belfast in it. Interesting as bundoran is a popular destination for belfast people.
My gram told me about her grandfather when I started genealogy research as a hobby. She adored him but he is a bit of a pain in the butt because she knows very little of his past. she told me when she was a kid he would shoo her away when she ask him about his life in Ireland. the only two things she could really tell me was he was from Donegal and he had a thick accent. lol
The Glasgow accent sounds like a Donegal accent mixed with Scottish
I hear most of those accents every day
Nobody cares Michael
My Mams accent is Ballybofey and finn valley mix. I love going on my yearly holidays to Donegal
Jackson’s hotel
@@cianmc8916 Yes of course my mam is from an tiny village called dromore between killygordon and the crossroads. 3 miles from Ballybofey. Don't forget Villa Rose and Kees
Shams
@@Seanadunthat’s just killygordon
@maebhmclaughlin2381 exactly, but hardly anyone knows Killygordon.
I have an ancestor who came from Donegal, and I was wondering what he might have sounded like in his speech...sadly, I don't know what part of Donegal he lived in!
they're all fairly similar anyways haha
Join an ancestry group. My dads grandfather , Odonnells came from Glenties, donegal and co cork, Mclaughlins. I didn’t know any of this until recently.
Beautiful all, Nothing to fight about, North to South , East to West, to the Aran Islands, The envy of the world, in Song and story..... Ireland .......My Island !!!!
Top comment...Slainte mo chara😉
My people, me great, great, graet, grand dad is from Dublin & others from Donngal.
What would be the dominant accent from around Manorcunningham? The Letterkenny accent?
Yes
Aw jasus sure they included my home of inishowen!
I started watching this because I was doing research on enya who is of donegal decent
The first guy sounded very welsh, south welsh valleys to be precise id know im from pontrhydyfen in the valleys. noticed it straight away with some of the words he was saying.
JIMMY IS GLENTIES AND GLENTIES ONLY
reply if he is something else btw
I know what you mean, but it is a Donegal accent. There are some similarities but they have evolved totally separately
Reopening the Western Rail Corridor would bring back Donegal trains.
I just came here to remember my Grandfathers accent. Beautiful ❤
Part of me expected a thick south accent of some form but it makes sense that it sounds like the North as it is in fact the Ulster accent which includes Donegal
Lol Donegal is the most northerly county in Ireland!
I'm from Killybegs :') I kinda have the same accent!
I've noticed 2 people based in, or near, letterkenny speak with a Donegal accent that sounds very Welsh. They're not related but they both have this accent. Any idea of where this comes from? As an example, "Aye, no bother" becomes "aye, no bovah" and " out the door" becomes " out the doah "
probably picked up from immigrants returning from london or certain Derry accents I've heard most in Creggan
@@biptyb5561 none of it comes from any sort of English accent. Aye, and no bother, are commonly said around Donegal. Derry and Donegal accent is strongly related and a lot of the same kind of expressions are used
I'm from kincasslagh and mullah duff
Swear to God thought the first letterkenny lady was my Auntie before i looked at the picute and wheres the glenswilly/Churchill ones
the woman at 2:10 she may have been born in creeslough but since then she must have went somewhere and learned to talk a bit posh
Lifford/Strabane accent here, so a bit of Tyrone a bit of Donegal.
I hear these accents plenty in Canada!
1st one JIMMY U MADE US PROUD XDD
Jimmy mac by god that's one name I have not heard in a long time
Inishowen that's were I live yeaaaaa inishowen
Same !! What town r u from?
Im in buncrana
I live in moville
Not the one in America its the one in donegal
My great grandparents were from Carndonagh! I want to travel there so badly to see where they lived:)
My Granny came from Ballybofey. We would chuckle when she count in the 30's & 40's. It sounded like Turdies and Farties. She was also wicked & crazy and would bark at us in Irish.
I’m mostly Irish, and it all seems to be from the Donegal region
@pianogirlywhirly Agreed.
Lovely
My mums family are from inver i love this place
Beautiful Bundoran.
should have had the like of Vincent Campbell the fiddler on the video, he has the strong accent of the glenties area
Glencolmcille.
born in letterkenny in 2002, raised up in ballybofey and since the age of twelve I'm living in Birmingham, UK... my accent is fucked sir haha
BUNCRANA THAT EXACTLY WERE I LIVE (buncranas in inishowen)
Same
Same lol
The water is a wee bit wet
Enya is my favorite singer and my celebrity crush
Its true
what happened to fanad and kerrykeel and glenvar adn rathmullen and ramelton and milford and downingsw?????
they are all part of donegal aswell
And Killmacreanan
Ancestry from Donegal, but I know two people from Northern Ireland: one sounds Californian while the other sounds like Donegal mixed with Scottish.
Posh people talk like that with USA accents
Continued..!! Sounds anything like the Derry accent. I will take your comments on board and wish you good luck sir' as I dont Do TH-cam "tit for tat".
My moms side of the family is from Mayo and my da’s side of the family comes from the glenties
Nobody in Gweedore speaks like Enya
Most of the wans I know do. To me Pearse Doherty doesn't really have a Gweedore accent.
bern bren just for you, the real Irish will understand
Feisigh do thoin fein
OKay but I live in inishowen and to be honest they all sound the same to me lmao
seamieeee
letterkenny !!!!
Cause he doesn't sound like a ghlean cholm chille
3:45 is a ballyshannon man mark boyle he wrote a book the moneyless man.
Inishowen :D
So many sound half Republic and half North. So interesting. Many of the expressions that are otherwise only in use in the North or the Republic are used with equal frequency in Donegal. I think that's lovely.
*****
People will just argue about any thing on the internet. Have you truly no idea what I meant? Must I in fact explain it?
Well, first of all, why would I be referring to Cork or Dublin? The most obvious counties in the Republic for the present comparison would be the ones near Donegal. Not literally the opposite ends of the country in both directions. That's first.
Second, the fact that Donegal is actually in the Republic (meaning continued influence from the Republic), and the historical reasons why it's in the Republic (meaning the sources of Republic pronunciations at the start), have led to sounding more Republic than most of the counties in the North, speaking broadly. There are areas in Donegal where this doesn't hold true, like Inishowen, especially South Inishowen, but overall, it is, more so in the Gaeltacht (for example, throughout the North they can pronounce TH sounds like the English, but in much of Donegal they use the sound of the Republic for that, which isn't quite a T or D sound in English but is closer, one of the most salient features of Irish speech in fact; it is the T and D from Gaeilge if you're wondering). Maybe they don't sound *half* Republic as I erroneously for ease of reading and typing may have stated above. I hardly thought anyone would come looking for the fecking percentages but I am on TH-cam after all...
Third, I actually have per centages, I just can't be arsed to type them out. So, do have a look at this if you like:
npu.edu.ua/!e-book/book/djvu/A/iif_kgpm_Hickey%20R.%20Irish%20English%20History%20and%20Present-Day%20Forms..pdf
Ei’ríġ Proinsias Dammantaċ Ó Gamhna.
Accents don't evolve out of political states, if that was the case I would speak with a London accent in Derry and would be using slang such as "innit mate" and "bruv". The southerners would have sounded like that before the partition in the 1920's, also most of the Donegal people I have heard do pronounce the "th", southerners actually can as well but just find it difficult when speaking fast just like people in other areas have problems with a word such as "three" when speaking fast, it us often pronounced as "free" in england and in ulster as well.
You need to remember that Ulster Irish, which was the dialect spoken in most of Ulster for years was very different to the southern dialects, it was more similar to Scottish Gaelic and Manx so the modern accents are different.
Another think that should be mentioned is that south tyrone and south armagh actually sound more like "the republic" than donegal do. The accents take no notice of the political border.
J. o'neill
Sorry, I've just written an immense reply and clicked outside the box, closing it. I'm not doing it again. Just, I know what I meant, I'm not wrong, and it seems to have been fairly misunderstood. I'll try to write something, though.
I never meant that political states are the alpha and omega of pronunciation, but they absolutely hold influence. I gave examples of South Dublin's historically posh London pronunciation and the fact that television in Donegal was Republic television (and radio), not Norther Irish television, back when there was more of a distinction. And before the 1920s people had made their political alignments, there just weren't the same names. Hence, everyone knew that Donegal would be in the Republic and most of Ulster wouldn't.
Most people do pronounce the 'TH' in Donegal but more don't than in the rest of the North (at least in my experience, which isn't too much with Northerners but they've always pronounced it in my recollection save some Donegal people). I cringe when people in the Republic pronounce the TH. Anyone that does is affecting it. It is absolutely not a part of Irish speech outside of Ulster, and in the border counties I have never heard it. I'm not saying it never happens but if it does it's rare. In the rest of the country it would always be an affectation (though it used to be somewhat common in Dublin so it's occasionally found there in natural speech). It should be noted that pronouncing it as an Englsih T or D is pretty rare these days. They're usually pronunced as a Gaeilge T or D which may not be as noticeable a difference. But 'three' is often 'chree'.
I'm not that familiar with Northern accents but in my experience they sound very different, so when I hear someone from Donegal and I hear obvious Southern qualities I take notice. Maybe Tyone and Armagh do at times sound more like the Republic. But I've defintiely spoken to people from both counties that didn't, at least as much as some Donegal people.
You can look in the document I've posted above, and do a find for Donegal. You'll find a lot of information there that supports what I'm saying.
Ei’ríġ Proinsias Dammantaċ Ó Gamhna. What are you on about? They sound northern because they are from northern (not Northern-political) Ireland. They don't sound southern at all!! Listen to someone from Enniskillen, or someone from south Armagh. You are talking nonsense it has to be said.
Ei’ríġ Proinsias Dammantaċ Ó Gamhna. Also, the article you posted a link to was written by a German. I would love to give you a selection of excerpts from people on both sides of the Irish border. I'd be willing to bet money you couldn't determine which were from the republic and which were from the north, unless you are comparing people from Belfast, Larne, Carrickfergus etc to people from Derry or Donegal.
My mum went to England and they thought she was from Scotland and was from donegal and they where like your not a paddy ur Scottish lol
Ok, don't call us paddys🤬
I think I’ve met that bundoran guy lol
I play football with Jim Mc Guinness son
Do you like lettuce? Lettuce buck ya !
nice. please stick up some people from ramelton, milford, kerrykeel, fanad, carrigart, downings, rathmullan.
Letterkenny :D
L2 1 ya long lane😃
It sounds so similar to northern
YA KNOW
Fucking miss Donegal.
What's the crack sirrr
Michael your not the only person from Donegal here
Michael Hegarty craic
Donegal great
It just shows how different education/surrondings/mixing of cultures have on accents. My mother and father were from donegal 20 miles apart, born in the mid/late 40s, accents have/will change, some of the accents of this video don't sound specific to donegal at all never mind parts of the county, bit pointless really.
I'm from Cruit donegal ne'er Kincasslagh
AYE NOT SO BADDD!!!
Shay Given is from the capital of Donegal. Where's Lifford. Very good video though. :-)
im from galway lol