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.

Exactly like my accent it's soft

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.

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.

Not wolf. Hound. My surname is Conlon.

@@catsy26 You're right.

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.

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 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).

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!

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.

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

Same!! I thought it was her at first and I was like, is Erin Irish?!

She is like an elongated Ellie Kemper!

@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.

And exaggerated....I'm Irish and sound just like Caitriona, not what Conan thinks!!!!

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 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.

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.

Well done Sherlock.

*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.

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 🍀🇮🇪🥃🤣🤣🤣

The proper spelling is Niamh.

Yes!

goidelic was the first gaelic language ...irish came out of it..and the others yes you are correct.

She sounds Irish to me as an Irish person 😂 Definitely has an American twang in places, but just a few words

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.

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.

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 ...

Min switches to British to New Jersey to Standard American depending on the people I’m around. And I have zero control over it. Used to freak me out!!

English is my second language too, and I try to get rid of my norwegian accent, and I sound more british english now. I also try the scottish one, is so beautiful.

@patrick newton Very good comment, you pointed out good things I haven't considered in my comment. Ofc you're right. In terms of having to learn it and staying motivated it's probably hard for your average language learner, as to lack of resources and usage. That's a big point. In terms of grammar and the like, it ofc depends on your native language whether you consider it easy or difficult or sth in between. I was talking out of your average european perspective. Irish has so much less grammar stuff than I have seen in any other european language, very few irregularities, consistent writing system (even though it is not phonetic, it's still very regular). So in that regard it would be easy. No idea why the Irish guy would consider it hard, I'll check out his video later. But ofc simply the lack of Resources and usage is a problem when learning it for the usual reason "to communicate". But for ppl who would like to learn it for other reasons like the Beauty of the language, literature, linguistics and so on, it might be good for them to know that it's not "hard" by grammar and so on standards. These are usually the type of ppl Learning the language nowadays, so the sentence "it's such a difficult language" could really throw them off when they wouldn't be by the social factors and then again..possible learners are lost. Sorry if I'm being dramatic, I'm a bit anxious for dying languages 😅 I know they'll die out anyway but still.

@patrick newton No real literature? That is an absurd statement, Firstly it is a stupid idea of real literature, as irish has had historical a rich literature tradition, though irish is lacking due to it small spoken community it is still there

@patrick newton The mother language of Irish used to be the lingua franca across Europe from the iberian peninsula to what is now turkey. So it's not the language's fault it's dying. It's basically the english's folk for colonising the island, settling there and making it lose a third of its population during the famine. Otherwise irish would be a normal national language like any other country has one. Anyway, I know there is no saving the language. It will die out eventually, just like Sorbian, Breton or any other small language. But it's not for linguistic reasons, it is for social reasons always. And idk how America teaches languages but Ireland teaches irish terribly because it is treated like a mother language when in reality it's not, seems like pride is in the way here.

@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 !