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SAOIRSE RONAN ATTEMPTED to teach The Late Show presenter Stephen Colbert how to speak with an Irish accent last night.
He didn’t do great but he tried really hard.
The pair then went on to pronounce some Irish names with Siobhan, Caoimhe, Tadhg, Niamh and Oisin all getting a mention.
She’s a great girl, rocking Hollywood, good on her I say !
Charming in this interview IMHO
Ocean is the worst butchering of my name I’ve heard.
Could you be more Pacific?
It’s probably done to p you off!
Epic comment Niall – I can’t stop laughing
Mine is seen instead of Sean, class
Ha Niall I genuinely laughed out loud at that and I’m here stuck awake at 2.30àm!!!
She was raised in Carlow, where on earth did she pick I that howeyeh accent from?
Both her parents are Dubs.
Such prejudice against Dub accents… Anyway better than a bloody D4 Veaaauuuuuugue Williams accent nay? I think she speaks lovely our Saoirse.
If you Google Paul Ronan – her dad – the results say he was born in Manchester UK.
there is a happy medium though Colin Farrell was another Oirish actor who capitalised on his Dubleeness lol but now has managed to tone it down to more manageable intonations I mean he is from Castleknock which is not exactly hard core Dublin as it is quite a posh area maybe not Malahide, Howth or Dun Laoghaire.
Nothing wrong with a Dublin accent by the way look at Imeda Mae
:)
He probably went to school in D15 Blanch probably,that would explain the accent.
He went to Castleknock college. It’s a private school.
They offer classes in fake Dublin accents.
I’d imagine they would struggle with your own name Cliodhna.
I always pronounced it cly-oh-na but it’s probably not right, what’s the English version for the name anyway.
Clint
Or the irish way is Clíona
Fair play to her, she is such a lovely Lady & so friendly..
His signs are missing the Fada’s
“Didn’t do great but tried hard”
That’s what allot of Irish Teachers say to their students.
I’m getting sick of hearing about this girl now.
I hope she doesn’t read this. She’ll be devastated
Do you think she gives a schitt what you think?
Nothing like a bit of auld irish begrudgerr……
Well yeah, i think she’d appreciate me worrying about her
Sorry Joe my comment was for Syd
She’s doing us proud. Literally can’t think of any reason to begrudge her but us Irish will always find a way!
I guessed that. Just havin’ a bitta craic :)
Is she not a New Yorker?
No more than DeValera
I don’t know how to break this to you but you don’t have hear about her if you don’t want to. And if you are really sick of her maybe you shouldn’t be commenting on articles about her online. Just a suggestion pal.
A oils listen to her for hours. Brilliant personality
Which accent did she use herself, her original Carlow accent or her new Dublin accent?
Why should that matter?
such an embarrassment she couldn’t speak Irish to him
Feck the begrudgers as Brendan Behan would say
Feck the begrudgers as Brendan Behan would say
She didn’t do bad for a British Actress
At least she speaks with her own accent.
Most of the Dublin arts crowd seem to develop a fake upper class English accent.
Ever heard John Banville lately?
He sounds like an English Lord.
Far from being an English Lord he was raised.
By the way
I regard “Doctor Copernicus” as one of the best novels I have ever read.
I am a great fan of John Banville.
I love Nidge from Love/Hate’s real accent.
“Speaking with her own accent”? I wouldn’t agree with that to be honest.
She grew up in an educated middle-class family in Carlow, not inner city Northside Dublin.
Christ she has a very mild Dublin accent, she’s hardly a Fatima mansions native now is she? Bloody hell
I read her very own words – interview with someone or other – that she never uses her own accent! I took it she meant in such situations. A reason for her apparently ever changing accentuation? Who knows!
She was on the late late in 2011 and she had a Carlow accent. Same show 2015 she has a Dublin accent. I wish her all the best but I hate that. You would think she was a dub.
Well so many want to be
I read an article in which the writer opined that, in the accent stakes, she’s trying too hard to come across as ‘ordinary’. Mentioned Dublin accent too and I agree.
On the Late Late, when she was 16, she had the same accent as her father, who btw called he Seersha.
It’s no surprise to me that an actress should have variations in her accent having moved around so much, especially one so young.
We should be proud of her, not begrudging. A British actor of IRISH decent told me yesterday he thinks she’s wonderful and voted for her for a BAFTA.
She was born in NY and her parents returned to Ireland – Carlow apparently – when she was three. There she stayed, I believe, until moving to London at age nineteen. So, that gave her sixteen years of exposure to Irish accents. Can hardly be described as ‘having moved around so much’ I’d say. In any case, the eyebrow raising was concerned with her Irish accent!
As for begrudgery, can’t say I’ve noticed any, either here on this discussion board or elsewhere.
Check Google for details of her day’s place of birth – says Manchester UK.
He may well be the product of Irish parents so would’ve been well exposed to the accent throughout his childhood/youth. Alternatively, he may well have grown up in Ireland, from a young age, if his family returned to their native land.
It’s highly possible she has an ‘ear for accents’ and the ability to slide effortlessly/unconsciously into use of same. When my daughter (born to an Irish mother and English father – annual visits to Ireland) was very young we noticed this trait in her and it amused us. Fast forward some years and she opted to study MFL at university – French and German – at which she was very competent. She was awarded a distinction in Spoken French alongside her degree.
Merely an illustration to demonstrate probabilities.
As for the pronunciation of her name I’ve always known it to be pronounced as ‘SEER – SHA’.
Whale oil beef hooked
I’ve been lying awake at night lately pondering the correct way to pronounce her name.
I daren’t utter it in public until I am 100% certain of being right.
Can someone help me please.
It’s wreaking havoc with my life.
Seersha
She described it as saoirse like inertia. So it’s more like sursha.
My niece has the same name. ‘aoir’ in Irish makes an ‘eer’ sound. It’s pronounced ‘Seersha’ (or ‘Searsha’)
Seersha is what her father called her on the Late Late when she was 16
BTW they both spoke with very similar accents then. I’m from Dublin and I doubt there is any affectation in her accent.
He’s done a terrible job with that show, viewership is way down and people are switching off in their droves.
In all fairness the show was tanking with Letterman, his also up again Fallon and Kimmel who rate very well.
He sounds v bored in that interview
What’s your point?
She’s very annoying, the accent on her.. Howryaaa
Girl doesn’t even know how to pronounce her own name
Saoirse Ronan speaks with a mid Atlantic American D4 twang not an Irish accent.
Deaf basta*d!
Mid Atlantic? So that’s how the inhabitants speak? What’s the population there?
Syd !! U gota hell
The usual begorrah interview the like of Chris o dowdy does too
Haha I’d wonder how they would pronounce your name Cliodhna ?
Take a break from Saoirse Ronan maybe?..
Take a break from Saoirse Ronan maybe?…
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