There’s no better way to learn an accent than from someone with the accent!
The cast from our upcoming production of Dancing at Lughnasa were excited to work on an appropriate regional Irish accent with actor and accent native Tracy McKeague. It was amazing to hear the difference between the most famous Irish accent where you may here someone using a ‘t’ instead of a ‘th’ and the Donegal County accent, where, amongst a bunch of other unique sounds, the ‘th’ is used. Other places where the accent is different from the accent of somewhere south like Dublin include in the vowel sound used for words like aught, caught, august, fraught, and thought. For example the one would say ‘aah-gust’ while the other would say ‘aur-gust’.
