Comments on: Robyn Kavanagh at the Sailing Club

By: samantha

samantha — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:26:00 +0000

heya,im frm wicklow town and i know robyn reay well!!!!!
she was brilliant in the sailing club and i luv er 2 bits and brendin sayin that she had a nackery wicklow acsent 4 gods sake like so wat it waz bout the singing like and as 4 leahan winning last night that waz a houx robin was way better then her the blondey cun t
thanks and i hope robin isint 2 upset
samantha

By: Carol Boland

Carol Boland — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:08:35 +0000

Hi Kate,
Thanks for your great comments on The Space Inside. We are in our fourth year now and are proud of the way we keep a “space” available for new and professional acts. All say that they love to perform in front of our attentive audience. Hope you’ll come back again. Perhaps during the Wicklow Arts Festival in May?

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:44:01 +0000

Hi Kate,

Nah, I don’t think the accent washed down.. if that was the case we’d all speak “rindabite” + I’ve heard plenty of people from Galways, Roscommon, Cork etc. who all speak D4…. That’s a tough one to explain. I definitely think a person will lose their accent if they are somehow ashamed of it and/or they aspire to join the Ross O’Carroll Kelly set.

Thankfully there are enough of us who don’t succumb to the Borgian influences to keep the local identity intact :-)

Alan

By: K8

K8 — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:03:32 +0000

Hi Alan! Welcomes :)
I noticed that about the D4 accents too… a buddy of mine has lived here all her life but commutes to Dublin every day, as have her relatives before her but speaks like a true Dalkey’n. I reckon they speak like that just simply because Wicklow is one of Dublin’s oldest dormitory towns? It’s like the accent sort of washed down here!

Jefferson; I hear you’re coming in April- can’t wait for that… email on its way :)

By: Jefferson Davis

Jefferson Davis — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:19:09 +0000

How did I miss this post? Wicklow sounds intriguing. I’ll have to look into staying in Wicklow for a couple of days. Thanks for the info, K8. :)

I thought it was quite humorous the last time I was in Dublin that very few people could understand what I was muttering. I butcher English, Spanish, French, and a microscopic amount of Gaelic (I’ve not been able to find an Irish linguistic tutor yet.). :)

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:11:42 +0000

That’s a great description of the accent alright. Now I’ve got “model of a…” song stuck in my head. aaahhhh!

I don’t have a strong Wicklow accent myself, but it is still a Wicklow accent. The accent is often mistaken for a northern one (mine is anyway). It’s amazing the difference between accents between the various towns and villages in the county. Rathnew is only 2 miles out the road and the accent is wildly different.

I have cousins that have lived in the town all their life like me and they are soo D4 it’s unreal. I can’t bear talking to them as I think it’s just fake. Had a conversation with a customer at work a few weeks back and don’t know how the topic came up but she asked where I went to college and when I said TCD, she was amazed I still had my Wicklow accent!

Alan

By: K8

K8 — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:10:38 +0000

I wouldn’t watch You’re a Star usually, or any of that text vote tripe (apart from I’m a celebrity, I miss that strangely!) except when I’m in someone elses house and I’m forced to.

The Cairc accent is the most infectious in Ireland, b’iy :)

By: Queen of Clean

Queen of Clean — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:52:01 +0000

Aww bless her, she looks about 12! I don’t watch telly much, but good luck to her, you have to admire anyone prepared to give something like that a go!

I have adopted Cork as my home, and yes, the accent does take a bit of getting used to!