Surprise: some of our most well-known "American" characters are actually played by Irish actors (or British actors, or Australian actors). Irish actors often mention being "immersed" in American ...

The Irish immigrants in the United States over the last 250 years has left a lasting legacy, that being how Americans speak. The tapestry of American accents and dialects is a rich and diverse mosaic, ...

Accent, it turns out, is a bit of a battleground. While Ireland has an astonishing number of regional accents relative to its small size, few are internationally recognised. Send an American or a Brit ...

In the past few years, two Irish men have gotten Best Actor Oscar nominations and neither of them were playing Irish characters. For Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy, who won the award, practiced the ...

You better knock off that awful attempt at a Scottish brogue, mate: A team of researchers has found that people in the northern United Kingdom and Ireland are especially good at telling when you’re ...