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- (Original airdate: 05/25/16) Even though Caitriona is Irish, she's spent so much time in America that she's nearly lost her Irish brogue.
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Her Irish accent is very clear. She is just a well-spoken Irish person. Americans are expecting to hear an Irish accent from the bogs and are not used to a standard clear Irish accent.
The exact opposite is true.
@@markwaldron8954 not at all.
It is not a strong irish accent and is very mild.
@@bighands69 I've just been around Irish people my whole life and the only person who's accent I can't detect is my ma. Other than her Irish accents are VERY obvious to me
@@hyperrat12
If you listen carefully you can hear many of the accents but when it comes to mild accents that are subtle it can be hard.
I have mistakenly misidentified Scottish and Northern English accents for Irish. You can get people in Scotland that sound like they are from Northern Ireland.
She totally sounds Irish to me. Not thick accent but you can hear it.
Exactly like my accent it's soft
Definite mix of both.
Her Irish accent, when speaking English, is still noticeable. If I remember my Wikipedia correctly, she's from Monaghan. The phrase she used is pure Ulster Irish, almost native-speaker standard. That's the part that impressed me.
Up Monaghan. As someone from there myself I can barely hear her accent at all tbh.
@@Monaghan It's not strong when she speaks English, that's for sure
If she from Monaghan that definitely is not a Monaghan accent! She sounds like she has a neutral Dublin accent with a little American mixed in.
@@moorenicola6264 She's been in the US a long time, but has remained true to her roots (insofar as that's possible). That's what the Outlander series is all about in the end
@@moorenicola6264 South (bourgeois to posh) Dublin to be precise, with standard American mixed in. The South Dublin is odd hearing on a Monaghan person, she must have spent a lot of time in the big smoke before going off to the States.
She is gorgeousssssssss!
She has a posh Irish accent. Upper class dublin accent
She's outta the box beautiful!
Conan is a Gaelic male name that is common mainly in England and Ireland. It is derived from the Gaelic root word cú with a diminutive suffix and means "little wolf".
Not wolf. Hound. My surname is Conlon.
@@catsy26 You're right.
She's stunning!
She sounds very much Irish with only a few hints here and there that she's lived in America for a while. What Conan doesn't understand is that there are multiple distinct accents for each of the 32 counties in the island of Ireland.
It is not a strong Irish accent and probably is her tv voice.
@@bighands69 Definitely a hint of the D4/RTE accent alright. I thought she sounded mainly Dublin with the odd hint of midlands at first but right enough now you mention it.
@@colmwhateveryoulike3240 I think the thing is that people rarely hear Monaghan accents in particular, and depending on the part of the county you either sound exactly like her or really, really Northern. Her vowels are still really flat though, which is a very distinctly Cavan/Monaghan/Louth I don't hear in the rest of the country as much.
@@helenamcaree8352 Ah is that it? That wouldn't be the first time I've been caught out by a Monaghan accent now you mention it.
@Colm Whateveryoulike No I don’t think that is a Dublin sounding accent at all. I’ve always found Monaghan/ Cavan accents to have a bit of a twang which could be mistaken for American
I think she sounds completely Irish.
Nah, very anglicised. Just like Soirise Ronin
I agree. It's not very pronounced because she's obviously worked on developing a standard British English dialect which she uses well in Outlander, but I can definitely hear traces of the Irish accent during interviews.
@@stargazer0480 …whom one could immediately identify as Irish when hearing her speak naturally… 🤷♀️
@@trevoroconnor7133 Hm. Doesnt sound West Country to me, really. I heard her speaking and asked my wife, “who’s the Irish lady?”
Sounds Irish to me.
She is so charming!
For those wondering, the phrase she said is spelt "tá tú comh chamtha le cos deireadh madaidh"
And to that its "Gaeilge" not "Gaelic." She was probably being nice in not correcting him.
@@jjann54321 , he ought to know.
Irish spelling is actually very logical and highly regular. It might look daunting and strange to an English speaker, but it's far from the mess that is English spelling. Once you learn the rules of Irish spelling (they're not very complicated or numerous), you can read and speak just about any word or sentence you find, despite not understanding the meaning. There are a few, fairly rare exceptions that rely on knowledge of grammar to pronounce correctly, but apart from that, it's easy!
I would agree that it’s logical and regular. But I would also say it’s overdue the kind of spelling reform that English has undergone over the centuries. It might even attract more people to the language if, for instance, Leary wasn’t spelled “Laoghaire”. I know that’s an easy word for natives, but to foreigners it’s impenetrable.
@@michaelcullen5308 Irish spelling was last reformed (in a way) within living memory. English, on the other hand, has never undergone a formal spelling reform. English has simply evolved naturally, but due to the significant changes in pronunciation over 800 years, English spelling is no longer phonetic. It hasn't been close to phonetic since the 1300s!
Irish is probably more phonetic now than it was 150-200 years ago, when it was still widely spoken natively (and monolingually by many), since the writing system today influences new learners.
@@michaelcullen5308 I'm all for reform of Irish spelling and grammar, but doing away with historically significant spellings is a terrible idea from a heritage perspective. My mother named me Donal O'Flynn, an Anglicised spelling of Domhnall Ó Floinn meaning "the ruler of the world descended from ruddy faced men" (cool I know!). I would never put Domhnall Ó Floinn on my passport or identity documents as speakers of American English can't even fathom the o apostrophe, but it is going to be on my business card as an Irish language journalist in the coming years.
@@michaelcullen5308 English never had a spelling reform
Consider the words "daughter" vs. "laughter" or "ration" vs "nation" vs "cation" (last one out there a bit... negatively charged ion).
Lovely posh Irish accent ❤
I love listening to Caitriona Balfe's interview because she's such a great speaker who really has a plethora of knowledge and ideas about her work
but this compiled version of the interview is just too short!
Give us the full version of their conversation, Team Coco! 😏💚🧡💛
Finally an Irish celebrity that speaks Irish!! Woooh
Conor McGregor speaks some Irish as well; he went to bunscoil, I believe.
@@oceantree5000 oh yeah I forgot about that, thank you
@@SweetCarolineBAMBAMBAM tá fáilte romhat!
@@oceantree5000 was he the one with the famous go amach phase
@@TheAyla2004 níl fhios agam!
She is so beautiful..
You can clearly hear the Irish accent.
I’m so in love with her
She sounds totally Irish. CoB has no idea what he's talking about. The irish accent changes from county to county.
Her accent is very mild and can be hard to pick up.
Not just from county to county. You could go five miles in any county and the accent has changed.
omg i love her laughs
She definitely has an Irish accent, the more the video goes on the clearer that becomes.
Dude what a beauty oh wow
In fact, Coinín actually means rabbit in Irish 😂
In Belgium we say konijn wich is pretty similar I never knew
In Greek is "koniklos" or "kouneli"
In Filipino it's "Kuneho" which comes from the spanish "conejo". This thread is awesome
”Kanin” in swedish
In Russian it's krolik, probably an Indo-European root
Oh she has without doubt a lovely and clearly noticeable Irish accent. The heck Conan?!
Beautiful
“Gaelic” is Scottish. Irish is Irish. (Gaeilge is the OG name for the Irish language)
Surprised Caitriona didn’t correct Conan, but she’s just so polite and graceful. And oh boyo, how graceful she was in Belfast. A fantastic film…Thank you, Kenneth Branagh!
Both Irish and Scottish Gaelic are spelt the same in English, but the Scots pronounce it “Gallic”.
@@glasgowbrian1469 no they are not ...im irish its GAEILGE for irish ...and gaelic or gallic ...for scots gallic ..and gaeilge is pronounced gwailge they are not spelt the same nor pronounced the same.
We generally don't ad not to shame them
@@silverkitty2503 Gallic is the ancient Gaul language. We just pronounce Gaelic like that when referring to the language because our own word is Gàidhlig. The other pronunciation is usually used when talking generally about Gaelic languages and culture as a whole.
Gaelic is a perfectly good word to describe the Irish language. Consider that the Gaelic Athletic Association is the official body in charge of indigenous Irish sports. There is Scots Gaelic and Irish Gaelic, also known as Erse.
Love her!
I don't know much about Irish but Conan O'Brien SCREAMS Irish to me. I searched it up to make sure and both names are of Irish origin 😭
Well done Sherlock.
What? You can tell she’s Irish during the first sentence. When she says “ear”, at the very latest.
I love her so much. So does my wife.
Very natural!!
People think her accent sounds American? Sounds quite Irish to me actually...
You know Conan was so into her
Who can blame him
@@MedalionDS9 yeah, she’s so gorgeous and hot
I'm Irish and iv never seen or heard of her. But she's extremely beautiful 😍
She comes out in the TV series outlander
I’ve always found the Monaghan accent and some northern accents have a bit of a twang which could be mistaken for American but I can still here the Irish in her accent.
Irish people speaking american accent it's normal for me but her english accent in outlander is so good i dont know how she do it
She's very good at accents.
You'r so breathtaking.. I can listen all day every day
she's nice
About the name Conan;
Etymology. From Middle Irish Conán, from Primitive Irish (conann), a derivative of Proto-Celtic *kū (“dog”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ
Interesting side note, in Welsh dog is Ci, and Scots Gaelic Cù.
O'Brien's Irish shtick at the 1.00 minute mark is hilarious
And exaggerated....I'm Irish and sound just like Caitriona, not what Conan thinks!!!!
it’s odd she’s irish but they had her speak like an englishwoman for outlander
Because her Outlander character is English.
That woman is BOSS.
Classy lady with terrific legs!
Look at how huge Conan's head looks in comparsion to hers.
Its crazy.
Bent as a dogs hind leg but sounds so so beautiful!
To recognise accents properly, you need to have lived in the place the accent comes from. Then you will know the many variations that exist in society strata and place. My soft well spoken Glasgow accent is recognised by Glaswegians, but not the English where I’ve now lived for over 50 years. Some think I'm Irish, and I’ve made mistakes as well. Now I can recognise an accent from a village that’s only 6 miles away, because I worked part time in a bar there in a farming community. The farm labourers spoke quite differently to the London commuters who now live there. I once had an argument with an English person who refused to believe that Hardeep Singh Kholi, a turbaned Punjabi BBC presenter was from Glasgow. I love the Glasgow accents of male Punjabis and girls of Indian heritage. And the accent of a Scottish highland lassie just melts me. I found the soft Irish accent of a Kerry Irish doctor was so nice to listen to, when I visited Kerry. Just ignore political boundaries, it’s the people that matter.
I hate the term "well spoken". It implies that those who do not have the same accent as you are poorly spoken and somehow lesser than you. Not nice.
I knew a few Irish people. My manager was Irish and his accents was very light. A woman joined my company and for the first few weeks I spoke to her I thought she was Dutch until I asked her what part of Holland she was from and then told me she was from southern Ireland.
Like michael fassbender
she's 37 here?!?!?!? WOW
Claire!!
DAE think she looks like Ellie Kemper? I swear I thought it was her!
Same!! I thought it was her at first and I was like, is Erin Irish?!
She is like an elongated Ellie Kemper!
Catriona is irish name itself. Meaning Catherine
She's just well spoken, like yeah she doesn't have a real culchie Monaghan accent, but she's very obviously Irish
As a giant Irish Conan fan, genuinely asking (not hating) why does Conan’s channel have way lower views then the other late night shows that suck? It seems so odd
Because he's not political, and doesn't conform to normal late-night rules. They do their own thing.
And he doesn’t pay for bots
Unless something has changed, he’s also the only big one that’s on cable as opposed to one of the big networks.
Because people are to stupid now they like the bullshit
@@owenmccord5078 I have heard he doesn't get on with people and is hard to work with.
If Conan drinks alcohol probably his Irish accent will be back too, lol. WE MISS YOU GUYS!!!!
Boa noite, uma linda mulher, majestosa. Adorei o vídeo.
I’m currently trying to learn both Irish and Scot’s Gaelic. I’ve been learning on and off the past couple of years but it’s very hard when you don’t have someone to converse with
“My wife and I love the name neev ore nev...”
The proper spelling is Niamh.
Her accent is 100 percent Irish.
Fabulous actor. Lovely person. Watch "Belfast" !
I love everything Irish.
Her irish accent is beautiful and I can hear it very clearly idk what he's talking about 😅
She's got legs...
And knows how to use them. 👍
E is Silent in Gaelic
Magically beautiful woman!
I think if you're used to Irish accents you can hear her Irish accent, otherwise it's not that obvious
Her accent defo comes and goes
Gaelic is derived from the spelling of Gaelige so for American to call it Gaelic isn't wrong. We refer to it as Scottish and irish Gaelic two different versions but still Gaelic.
As a German: she definitely sounds Irish. It’s always the R
She IS Irish!
Those leggs..🔥
*BONK*
Those legs go to heaven, every time.
Those legs walked down the Victoria’s Secret runway.
Your ripped the words right outta my mouth.
she's pretty tho
My name is Vincent... in Gaelic it’s Uinseann , crazy lol
We still use the Irish language a lot . The old timers use it in prison so the British gaurds can’t understand what they’re saying. Just another weapon against the British oppressors 🍀🇮🇪🥃🤣🤣🤣
I thought it was Kimmy Schmidt. Damn it!
The Language is IRISH (Gaeilge). Go order a book or audio to learn to speak GAELIC and you will be learning the Gaelic Language of Scotland. If you wish to learn the Gaelic language spoken in Ireland than you had better order books and audio on Irish.
@Mylie Doherty. "Gaelic" is a perfectly valid English adjective to describe anything associated with the Gaels, including the gaelic languages of Ireland and Scotland. Pedantic or what !!!
@patrick newton you're right.
@@fromireland8663 no it is not valid. Gaelic is an adjective in Ireland not the name of our language.
@@moorenicola6264 Fluent Irish speaker here. The language is referred to as Gaelainn in Munster, Gaeilge in Connacht and Leinster, AND Gaelic in Ulster.
I am a fluent Irish speaker. Speakers of the Ulster-Irish dialect refer to Irish as Gaelic. So no, it's perfectly fine to say Gaelic, even if it also refers to the group of Celtic languages.
She definitely sounds Irish, just an Americanized version of it.
This is an older interview, she sounds even more American in 2024 but still has a slight Irish lilt.
She lived in the US for 12 years.
I have no idea who she is, but she looks like if Jennifer Lawrence and Ellie Kemper were smooshed together in one person
Beautiful black Irish.
Ellie Kempner’s Irish accent isn’t believable AT ALL
Her accent is D4 south dublin
She is fantastisk 😍🤩
shes an irish jennifer lawrence
She has a middle class Dublin accent.Walk around Dundrum or Stillorgan and will hear women speak like her everywhere.
Didnt know she was irish ... says an irish man..... niceeeeeeee
Irish is the first and original Gaelic language, Scottish Gaelic and Manx, derived from Middle Irish. Irish is just called Irish
goidelic was the first gaelic language ...irish came out of it..and the others yes you are correct.
she definitely has an Irish accent, No one calls the language Gaelic, Its called Irish or Gaeilge
In Ulster they do call it Gaelic, there's different regional dialects. very few irish people speak Irish or Irish Gaelic.
Fluent Irish speaker here. It's called Gaelic in Ulster, Gaelainn in Munster, and Gaeilge in Connacht and Leinster.
I live in.Belfast. No one I know calls it Gaelic.
Good thing as Irish we aren't as easily offended as everyone else 🙂
That doesn’t mean we all can’t find things offensive/ annoying. I have no issue with this but some things just aren’t amusing anymore.
She sounds sooo Irish to me as an American
She sounds Irish to me as an Irish person 😂 Definitely has an American twang in places, but just a few words
She is Irish.
@AoifeNiBhraoin She is Irish but lived in the US for 12 years.
see Belfast
Yes!
It's "Irish"! I'm an American raised in an Irish Neighborhood in San Francisco and we had many Irish speakers and learned early that Gaelic was the language spoken in Scotland. She should have corrected the amadán!
She has an Irish accent the my ear
Conan I spotted an Error!!!! When you said you looked up Conan in Gaelic, it meant "wide head." Well according to Google, Conan, actually is derived from Gaelic, and it means small wolf. Give yourself more credit brother. We share the same birthday too! Take care!! 😄
it doesn't mean small wolf ....it can't possibly mean anything little if you know the grammar of irish ...every little ends in ín or een ....the diminutive sufix needs to be een or í like coinín which means rabbit completely different sound also slender vowels don't evolve into broad ones easily in irish wolf in irish is mac tíre ...literally son of the land ...Cu means hound or dog ...so it would be closer to hound or dog ..but not little
@@silverkitty2503 This name derives from the Irish name “Conán”, composed of two Gaelic elements: “cú” (wolf, hound) plus “diminutive suffix (nán)” (little). In turn the name means “little wolf, little hound”. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was the author who wrote the Sherlock Holmes mystery stories. 1) Conan I †992) nicknamed “Le Tort” was the Duke of Brittany from 990 to his death. 2) Conan II of Rennes (~1033-1066) was Duke of Brittany, from 1040 to his death. 3) Conán mac Morna is a member of the fianna and an ally of Fionn mac Cumhail in the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology. You can't just take the first Google response that pops up. That's why you need to know the origin of the name and not the person. My parents could have named me kunte kinte, I still wouldn't be African.... lol
@@PureChivalry im a native irish speaker ...dude stop it ...i know what it means its like saying john means god is gracious ....its just a catholic name now..its not even from ireland its from the isle of man...whatever language it came from evolved into something else
@@silverkitty2503 that's great that you speak Irish and still don't know the origin of the Scottish gaelic name. Good luck with your half hearted lessons on a language you don't speak lol
@@PureChivalry The surname Conan comes from the Irish surname O Cuanain (O'Conein and MacConein) and is derived from the Irish Cuinin for "rabbit", son of Dugal. im a native speaker ..from the actual gaeltacht my parents speak irish and my grandparents speak it ..so ahem. The idea it comes from Cú makes no sense because Cú has always been an ancient word for hound or domestic dog not a wolfe. Wolf is mac tire ..literally son of the land. Cuinin and o Cuanain ..would sound VERY like conan to an english speaker ...whereas Cú nan ..or whatever sounds nothing like it and makes no sense. Im really quite astounded at the fact that several irish people have said it means rabbit ...and yet all the americans seem to think because they read some crap about a language they dont speak they understand it. Mac Conein ...to you would literally sound like Mc Conan....that is where the name comes from and it means rabbit ...
It's still very strong sounding on her "R's"
It's referred to as "Irish" not Gaelic. My son's name is Irish for John, it's Eoin. Pronounced "Owen."
@Janet Claire."gaelic"is a an proper English word to describe the language spoken by the Gaels, be it Scottish Gaelic or Irish Gaelic.
@@fromireland8663 I know that Irish falls under the umbrella of Gaelic. I'm just saying that nobody in Ireland, including the language teachers, refer to the language as "Gaelic." It's called "Irish" here. If you asked an Irish person in Ireland if they "speak Gaelic" they would probably say, "Oh, you mean Irish? Yes." or they may say, "We learned Irish in school but I only have a cúpla focal."
@@janetclaireSays yes, because in school it is referred to as Irish, just as other language classes are French, German, etc.
However, anyone who got passed primary school knows what a non resident is referring to when they say "gaelic", so give them a bit of leeway please.
@@fromireland8663 I don't really understand your gripe. My point was that it is referred to as Irish. I never said it wasn't a Gaelic language. Lighten up.
@@janetclaireSays My gripe is that you are being pedantic with people who have not gone through the Irish education system and who deserve a little slack. Follow your own advice and lighten up !
Nice
I think she just sounds hot.
she has an Irish accent
She IS Irish.
i know @@jessester2759
We don't call it "Gaelic". We call it "Irish". It jars on the ear. I don't know why she didn't stop him.
A lot of Irish people have this accent though. It's probably related to the standardising effect of television.
She is sucking up...irish americans are gobshites and get over sensitive when you correct them....dunno why
It's called Gaeilge but I do agree about the American influence on our accent via tv and media.
She didn't stop him because Ulster-Irish speakers refer to it as Gaelic. And she herself is an Ulster woman.
Conan loves the old stage Irish BS! 😂😂😂
Awesome. Wish I could practice my Gaelic with her.
Conan is pronounced "Kun-Awn" in Ireland. It means "little hound".