As someone who doesn't know Gaelic, it's both fascinating and enlightening to hear of another's culture.

+Red Whovian Gaelic is more Scots Gaelic, but the Irish version is called Gaeilge which translates to Irish.

Yeah, but people are fine going up and sharing their culture.

Blame the irish or her parents!

The english spelling of Gaeilge is not gaelic it's just 'Irish', the term you are looking for is the Anglicised version. Besides nobody uses the term Gaelic to refer to the language because there is more than one gaelic language. People try to sound intelligent when actually the correct way to say it is either 'Irish' or 'Gaeilge'. Nowhere in Ireland do they refer to it as Gaelic, that is something foreigners seem to do... I mean I don't know if your Irish or not but I do know that that is actually something that really irritates Irish people..

Bruno Scopel they're also completely different

Well Northern irish accents and Scottish accents are more similar.

Sam Magee who said they were the same? Fucken idiot

Irish yes, british accent is terrible.

Calm down, everyone.

Oh, what did the Irish do?

I mean Liam was doing it for years so it’s her turn now 😂😂 plus I swear there are a lot of Irish actors like michelle Fairely aka catelyn stark shes Irish so is little finger and Varys all Irish .

@@isaacolivecrona6114 what didn't we do ;) ??

she speaks for fuck all irish ya tool

It’s better than Connor mcgregor representing the Irish.

Pls same

Honestly, they (you) could adopt katakana as writing and it would have as much sense as Latin alphabet in Irish.

Yeah

I’m not Irish but my husband is and I find it hilarious too XD His name is Tadgh XD It made me happy to see his name in the video though!

As an Irish person I am confused almost every time an Irish person tries to pronounce their own names. Miss Ronan is a perfect example. Her name is pronounced always as SEERSHUH.....never SERSHUH.

Poison Kiss that's exactly what I am looking for now 😂

Let me take a stab in the dark here...by any chance is it pronounced ee-fa? Could be totally wrong but thought i'd try it anyway

Poison Kiss Try Welsh names

Caoimhe is quee vuh

So funny from an Irish person's perspective

Expressive eyes that dance when she is excited. I know some people like that.

That's sweet...

Overall shes just average tho

She is insanely beautiful, not just her eyes

sami6291 are you okay?

It's actually so annoying

@@adambe1126 yes thats the point they were making

Ik, I was agreeing with them

So everyone is agreed he is a dose and Saoirse is a wee dote / darling.

I thought they had great rapport. Wasn't interrupty at all, just a funny back and forth.

No not this.

To be fair, went to Dublin last year overnight for work and sat across from him in the pub for lunch. My colleague went over and asked him for a picture and he told him to f**k off because he was eating his lunch. Though dissapointing, it was satisfying in a very stereotypical way....

@@Wsupermain2 He's a jerk. He'd likely have been obnoxious no matter what he was doing.

I do only have one Irish friend and he actually used to train with McGregor years ago.

GIMME YA BELT!!

Yes, she's beautiful but also has an incredible down to earth and fun loving personality with a brain and maturity beyond her years.

well thats because she is lad

@@mr.timjohnston546 *laid

Her weird face?

Yes. Talented. Outstanding actress. All her film characters are marvelous. Especially when younger. Camera loves her.

Yeah, most hosts of shows like this are like that. They are conditioned to fear even one instant of dead air, so they yap like toddlers on meth. Plus, they are self obsessed attention whores by nature, and they want the spotlight and for everyone to think they are clever at all times. The best at avoiding those issues is probably Seth Meyers.

Yes he was so annoying

Same here

Dont blame him. She us on the show to sell herself.

They are having a perfect conversation, dumba---.

True I'd laugh if there was kerry or Cork accent

@@frostyblade8842 oh god😂😂

Yeah especially some rural regions. Some people in my school even speak in a similar tone to the Dublin accent(from Southern England).

I agree.... Each village changes.... So many accents....

@@markhenley3097 The standard Irish accent developed as part of a dialect continuum stretching from west country England to Dublin in the 15th/16th and 17th centuries. And it slowly spread from Dublin to the rest of the country. (Ireland is known for it's many regional accents, but experts on the English of Ireland say that the regional accents are dying off and being replaced by the standard 'RTÉ' accent originating in Dublin, which is the way people with status tend to speak. This is especially noticeable in younger women, even as far south as Kerry very few women under 35 will have a regional accent, and as all experts in linguistics know, women are generally the forebearers of language change across cultures as they always adopt the higher status way of speaking and carry new trends). And I'm not surprised that people in the south of England have a similar tone, because the south Dublin accent developed from people trying to sound more English years ago. Add in to the mix the effect American mass media has had on the speech of young people everywhere and it's not surprising at all that there are similarities!

Come to the south in the US.

It worked.

@uildanach2010 you re just completely besides the point saying "The names don't sound the way the are written in English": it's just that in both those languages there are letter combinations that make a sound different than how it is written. nothing to do with it being a name or with latin origins (especially because english is a mix of latin and germanic and on top of it latin actually works like english anyways, with no letter combinations).

It worked😂

Or you know, the names could’ve been spelt with the Irish alphabet but now I’m just talking crap...

This is very superficial

just write sershe

@@carlosandleon but that's not her real name

@@KayColeLynn doesn't matter. Phoenetics is more important than how it's spelled

@@carlosandleon to some spelling is more important then phonetics. I'd rather someone screw up saying my name then spell it wrong but that's also because you should be able to spell to my name give or take a letter based off of how its pronounced.

@@KayColeLynn You don't Talk to people by spelling. Phoenetics can cross cultures and languages. Spelling not so much. You can't spell your name as ypu want in Japan

I just clicked to hear how it is pronounced.

Nope it's Toi T Toi t Toi t toi T

Can William Wallace back this up?

@@koshaz3x yup! They mae take oor life, but not oor saoirse RONAN!!

@Salwa Iqtait we used to have our own language known as Irish but we got colonised by the English a long time ago and we lost our language and now we all speak English but we all are still taught it in schools. I know a fair bit of Irish.

+jerome go Literally my thought when she first pronounced that name. I was wondering where your quote comment would come from. :)

Now you know :) haha!

+jerome go yeah that was awesome

Offended 😂😂

+caoimhe carrie Its a struggle

Ah sure what's the chraic with you lad you little bollocks?

+RavensSarora True, like in Cork City you can almost tell what street somebody is from, by the way they lilt and sing at ya :P For the record though, Saoirse's accent is all over the gaf. As a Gaeilgeoir nothing makes me cringe more than hearing a fake Dublin accent wrap itself around the finer points of a triple vowel sound. "Sertia", ffs lol.

+W Lingwood roscommon mayo sligo leitrim and offaly all have a very very similar accent

+Darth Irish Bit ironic that you've a picture of an English football teams crest as your profile picture but sure...

Dylan Mc Donald So I can't follow a team that I like because I'm irish? Fuck off lad get back in your biscuit tin.

+ZhangtheGreat Huh?

+SallyTheSeahorse Irish immigrants were heavily looked down upon when they first started coming to America in large numbers. Racists and anti-immigration types (but I repeat myself) claimed the Irish weren't actually white somehow, and some segregated places forbade Irish people from using the "Whites" facilities.

+kewlpc what?

SallyTheSeahorse Kate Hu As kewlpc already explained, back in the 1800s, Irish immigrants (who were the largest in number arriving in the US pre-Civil War) faced huge discrimination for being poor and Catholic. In many parts of the US back then, people were grouped into four main "races": white, black, Native American, and Irish. This kind of discrimination actually lasted well into the 20th Century and didn't really go away until the Cold War. Remember when JFK was elected president and how so many people feared having an Irish Catholic president for the first time?

+ZhangtheGreat that's something we don't learn in school

I love her more

I love her more and more !

hahaha

I love Saoirse in a way words can't describe. She is THE GIRL that comes to my mind whenever I think of who would I like to be with me.

Same here. Epitome of the perfect girl :)

It's a fake Dublin accent.

It is possible to play up your accent.

Kristine Ahn its acc pronounced "key-vah" not "crwee-vah"

Theres rhe traditional Irish "cwee-vah" and then everyone I know says it "Key vah"

in our oldest province, ulster, it is often called Creevagh. just like the irish lingo word for hill (kinnock) is often called Crock in irish!! yeah, crock!! and ulster should know ... it is a ncienet, after all.

My nieces name, but pronounced "Keeva" in Donegal and the west... The east of the country pronounce it "Queeva".

That’s my cousins name

They actually call him 'Sillian'?! Fuckin' hell, the Yankee doodles must be half-bent in the head to believe his name is really pronounced like that.

They actually call him 'Sillian'?! Fuckin' hell, the Yankee doodles must be half-bent in the head to believe his name is really pronounced like that.

They actually call him 'Sillian'?! Fuckin' hell, the Yankee doodles must be half-bent in the head to believe his name is really pronounced like that.

+SallyTheSeahorse 99.8% of Americans can't speak Gailge and the vast majority of major languages are pronounced phonetically. It's only natural for non-Irish to call him Sillian.

I love lamp

That was a very ignorant joke, I'm so dissapointed on her.

@@myBquest That was very rude, its sad to know she is that kind of person

that was very racist, it disappointed me

@@verm7148 call the wahhmbulance crybabies. soft as shite.

@@verm7148 You completely picked that up incorrectly. In Ireland because we are so pale and most of us like tanned skin she was being self deprecating about her pale skin and nothing racist to Mexians. It was more her way of saying she would like to have tanned skin tone like Mexicans than anything against them. Everything needs to be framed within the particular cultural reference. And to us that was her taking the piss out of being so pale

@tinwoods no he isn't. he's just being plain rude.

She is not interrupted, they are having a conversation, you are too slow and dumb, spamming your standard interview hate (for Trump or whatever...).

For real, in many shows and conversations I see, people talk over each other and I feel like I'm in the wrong for not liking it.

IF SHE BREATHES

Let Stephen mansplain himself for gawd sake! 😉😂😂

Her choice

Britt Volkonskaya that’s rather ignorant of you it’s not her choice my name gets brought up every day of my life because people butcher it I’m not going to keep my mouth shut about correcting people on my name

No, it's "not rather ignorant". I get my name butchered all the time. I know it's because most English speakers don't know. Get over yourself

Britt Volkonskaya them not knowing is the definition of ignorance because they are capable of learning and knowing. I am American my language is English I know of those speakers you talk about but there’s still no excuse when someone corrects you on how to pronounce their name three times for them to mispronounce it again because they feel like it’s close enough. I’m done talking you can have your opinion all you like and excuse people for it all you want.

@@ashleytrueblood2200 people butcher the name Ashley? Really?

Agreed, cheers brother!

im actually 70, so i look pretty great for my age

No fucking way you're 70

hahaha bitchass you believe him

No f**king way he's not a pedo, either.

Hey look! A cancerous reply section! Great! 😀👍

+hamsterpoop What? What the hell are you talking about? What videos?

+hamsterpoop link?

BLACK_WOLF welcome to youtube comments

+hamsterpoop Ok... And, i still don't understand what you were talking about...

+BLACK_WOLF He's trying to throw you off. Its Internet speak.

Delana Trujillo-Johnson j

It's ridiculous, nobody in Ireland actually sounds like that, completely fake

strawberrykicker2 yes they do lmao what are you saying?

Obsessive mind aka The Sad Rapper no they don't,she sounds like an American/British actor trying to do an Irish accent, 'ah jaysus, sure little auld me from oireland with me potatoes and me shillelagh, I'm in a little filum begorrah' she's ridiculously fake

Delana Trujillo-Johnson ya can't beat the fecking Irish accent

yea, but it's (Kwee-vah)

but sometimes i hear (kee-vah)

+caoimhe Mccay so, you can speak Irish Gaelic (Ulster) ?

This is why Americans who've changed their names to sound American should change it back to make their names unique.

The name in translation is actually Kevin in English.

I can spell your name easily it sounds beautiful honestly i like the way saoirse pronounced in my native language is Kuivë

You go to hell

Sup, Quiver.

It's pronounced as "KEEVA" right?

the problem with the names is not how they sound, it's that they are written differently from the way it is pronounced, which is clearly their sadistic way of torturing us... =P

fakin amehikan aksent

@@antonishedsp2036 😅

Maybe he loves his own voice

Conan always interrupts guests

Every TV talkshow host is trash

N she z beautiful 😍

I know right I kept laughing every time a new one came I screen. I'm just sitting here like whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?

+Merc With A Mouth Try Medb or Meadbh! Or the most Irish name of them all... Brian.

+toyotaprius79 The Brian one is just unfair. As an Irish person living abroad I'm so glad I dodged a bullet. Meanwhile the poor Eoghains haven't a hope

+Merc With A Mouth Harder than my phallus? I think not!

The Irish language is really difficult, it's lovely though

a leprechaun?

+Vincent Phan even that crazy irish guy from Braveheart?

marry my Dog!

***** Umm, no, the crazy Irish guy wasn't scottish.

+Thom Yanks Think he's referring to the mad Irish man Stephen.

Oh really? You know there's a lot of variety in Irish accents? In that case, I challenge you to listen to MissElayneous, an Irish 'rapper' from Finglas, an area of inner city Dublin :)

MsAsh3070 challenge accepted

Mon Lemon I used to have to listen to Irish accents all day, and I do not recommend it. Some nice people, etc., but the accent? Good Lord, NO.

Mon Lemon...Although you are correct in saying Irish accent, it is a very broad term. There are many Irish accents, at least one for every county. The accent she´s using is a Dublin accent. In Dublin there are several accents and they tend to be strongly linked to social class and education. Her accent could be described as low-class Dublin.

@@MsAsh3070 you mean "Doblin"

+2ndRatePetronius DOE-nall... How the fuck do you leave out the 'm'?!

+Turbo9987 Mh is an E sound, Bh is a V, and É is an A. Crazy, I know.

+2ndRatePetronius H = V therefore phonetically it is spelled "DoVnAWl"

+RedPaintedTable "H" is not "V" "bh" would be the "v" , but "mh" is more like a "w" so it's "Donal" - rhymes with "tonal"

+jimbobeire Both "bh" and "mh" are pronounced like both V and W depending on a few things. mostly the broadness/narrowness* of the vowel/consonant. GENERALLY, if the nearest vowel is broad then both "mh" and "bh" are pronounced like an English "w". If the vowel is narrow, then it's time for a good auld "v" sound. In "Domhnal", the vowel is broad, so it's "Dow-nal", "Doe-nal", or similar. In "Caoimhe", the vowel is narrow, so it's like "Kwee-Veh" or "Kee-Vah" depending on your accent, what part of Ireland you're in, and a little bit of personal preference. (ao is ee for REASONS, the "i" in the middle there is to warn you that the "mh" is narrow and so is silent, and I say "it's like" because this name is said in variety of ways depending on who's talking, some people would say it ends with an "ah" sound some with an "eh" sound. ) However! Niamh has the "mh" at the end so it's a "v" sound ... so Niamh is like "Neev", even though the closest vowel is broad... *the board vowels are the one that make your mouth round, the narrow make your mouth narrow... i, í, e, é are narrow; a, á, o, ó, u, ú are board. The couplets ("ae", "ea", "ao" "ui" "iu" and so on) are tricky, and sometimes have a subtly that's lost on people... like some nationalities trying to get their L and R sounds right. Why not just use "w" or "v"?! Those letters aren't in the Irish Alphabet, and within the Irish Language there are many reason to distinguish between "mh" and "bh" as the 'h's come and go in many words depending on case, tense and so on...

😂

LOL :-)

Tf is kindergarten

@Anarchist nah i actually don't know what kindergarten is?

@Anarchist Well, in Germany we do have kindergarten, but we don't learn how to spell there, the kids only play and learn social skills and at a maximum learn how to draw within lines and how to use scissors properly. Letters and learning how to spell is reserved for primary school. @Ben Ski it's the place young kids are usually send to before they start going to school. But what you do there varies (maybe from country to country?).

And for others is confusing of how "mh" sounds, you know, if next to "a, o, u" sounds like a "W" and next to "i, e" sounds like a "v"

@@elgranlugus7267 Might be easier to just say "h" isn't a letter in Irish, it's just a modifier to the previous letter, so whenever you see an "h" in Irish, you should expect it and the previous letter to make a different sound than it would in English. For those curious, "h" takes the place of an accent marker (a dot above the letter) on previous letter that was standard in Old Irish. I don't know this for sure, but my guess is they made that change to make things easier with the introduction of the printing press (since they had plenty of "h"s lying around, but consonants with dots probably would have to have been specially made) So a name like Siobhan using the old orthography would be Sıoḃan. (I hope UKposts uses a font that renders that correctly…)

@@PucaCiuin It all comes to dialects, if you say Siobhan like "Sho-van" it's correct, same as "Shoe-wan". However, in other sentences, names or words, slender "bh" is like a "v", and broad bh is "w". The word bhaile, needs to be pronounced as "wah-leh" yes or yes. Broad MH - "w" Slender MH - "v"

Sean Shane is the most typical Irish name Etan

cha mekke 'aoi' is pronounced *ee* in Irish. For example the word 'naoi' (nine) is pronounced *nee*. Any Irish person could look at any Irish name even if they've never seen it before and would still be able to pronounce it. Names like caoimhe oisin siobhan saoirse and roisin are very common in ireland

This just made me think of Billy Elliot.

I suspect he was from Belfast in Northern Ireland… that part still connected to the U.K. In the Irish Republic, Liam (LEE-um) would be the equivalent of William and Billy is the diminutive. Being an Ulsterman and living here all my life, I have heard quite a few names and understand what you are saying about “Ballet”. For the others reading this who don’t understand… Ballet (bah-LAY) is the dance. Billy (BAL-ay) is the Belfast pronunciation. We have some rare words and phrases. Quare geg. Kwer gay-g = very funny Quare craic Kwer krak = very enjoyable Boutye? Bough-t-yee (Bough as in tree branch) = How are you? Grand = fine or good as in I feel fine, I am good. And we tend to talk too quickly for people to understand us.

Ziaheart I'm 300 % Irish and have never heard that name in my Life

Pierce McManus you've never heard the name Billy... Let me tell you right now, you defiantly have.

Aye yis are wile hard to understand hi.

Geoff Webster took me awhile. 😂

hahahahaahahahahaha got it

Geoff Webster good one... Hahahaha

Great!

We'll all be foocked?

It's a decent film but hardly one of the all-time greats.

I think because of the universal story, an engaging and nuanced screenplay, the inventive use of color, cinematography and set design, and the high watermark of one of the best, if not the best, young actresses working today, Brooklyn is a future classic.

The cinematography was very nice. I remember it looked kind of like a moving painting in some scenes (especially in Ireland or when they went to the beach at Coney Island). The story is universal in some ways but it's also very specific in ways that might not be as transferable to today. It's more about the white ethnic American immigrant experience of previous generations then the more modern multiracial immigrant experience of today. European immigrants, especially if they already spoke English, were obviously more able to "assimilate" (i.e. become white) and more quickly and easily become and be considered "American", especially by the time of the post-World War II era that the film was set in.

Yes, it is a look back to the Ellis Island as opposed to the border or refugee experience today. Chaplin was obviously a big influence in the earliest scenes. John Crowley had obviously spent some time watching _The Immigrant_ before filming.

Thanks for the advice. I'll try to see some more good ones soon....

lol

it doesn't match in our understanding only...

Caoimhe must be one that is pronounced slightly differently depending on the region because I know 3 girls named Caoimhe, and they all pronounce it like KEE-va. Not that that makes any more sense than Quiva...

Oi, my friend's name is Temohep. We call im Jim. (naw just kidding lol)

Manhattan kaboul

Thanks for taking time to write it all 😁

In my accent, the name of Máire sounds more like "Mawreh", the "Moy" speallin i often use it with names like "Maige"

@Ray Kah Because, "v" though it comes from Proto Indo European, most of cultures, would use an alternative consonant. Germanic languages use the "V" , however, it seems that, in proto-germanic, commonly the use a "W" sound.

Éabha is Ava in some cases too, though, since a fada on an E gives it an “ay” sound. Máire can be pronounced “maw-ruh” either, as a fada on the A gives it an “aww” sound.

Rachel B. Ok yeah, I just screenshotted this for future reference. Thanks!🌸💕

🤣😂

Caoimhe {Quee-va} LOL “Quee-va”

Yes

Love it

Kao-meh!

Taylan Safak The song is 'Star of the County Down', I fear, and she has not lived there. She has lived in County Carlow and County Fingal.

+roguishpaladin county fingal.....

She is american

Bella Bennet She's from the Bronx. Born there but grew up in Ireland.

Omg yes!!

Well, Evana Lynch is Irish.

She was considered for the role of Luna Lovegood but it ultimately went to Evana Lynch.

Probably why most people bring up their voice to sound irish :D

Leyya Ahmed She actually auditioned for Luna Lovegood.

+toobasaurus23 *Gargeous :P

+Blinksumk Eh, Irish accent not the Dublin one :P

+Blinksumk no.

Looks like HANNA went and grew up on us. What a pretty lady. I was born in the US, but my dad's side of the family is one of those cliche Irish families. I have something like 30 cousins on my dad's side....so many I don't even know how many there are, let alone all their names. They all live in Michigan, are Catholic, and definitely Irish. My name is Sean. I've never really felt a connection to my heritage...but I wish I did. It's amusing to me how Colbert, Conan, and Jack White..._all three_ come from giant rust-belt Irish Catholic families. Though, not all the cliches are true; I'm not big on alcohol...while I adore marijuana. Then again, which one of those is *_green?_* ; )

+Blinksumk *Gaoirges

Aldo Zilli exactly!

No, they always say they’re Scottish! Atleast in my experience

Let us be proud of are small connections to a great country such as Ireland!! :P We say it out of nothing but love! lol

@@aonghaspringle7822 I don't run into too many people who claim Scottish only. It's almost always Scots-Irish, it seems, and at least where I'm from, that's probably more accurate than not. A LOT of Scots (and Irish, to a lesser extent) ended up settling in Appalachia back in the day, to the point where in some of the more remote hollers, you still have words in common usage that come directly out of Scots vocabulary. I watched a documentary once about the dialect here, and there were a surprising number of people commenting that the people in the documentary sounded an awful lot like old timers in their countries. One person in particular was like, "Why does this guy sound exactly like my grandpa, who's never left Ireland in his life?" lol Personally, I don't hear it. Appalachian accents to me sound NOTHING like Irish or Scottish accents. But it seems others think otherwise, so who knows. But that's what you get in what's still a very young country full of immigrants: a whole lot of people trying to find their identity through their ancestry. I think that's pretty cool, actually, and if it leads to people developing an interest in other countries and cultures, more power to 'em.

There are many Americans who still are very irish

+NezihBouali I think you actually pronounce his name like "Doughnul"

+ZombieKilla I can confirm that.

Yes I know it's pronounced that way. Like "tonal". That's why I didn't ask.

+NezihBouali aye siwmae

+ZombieKilla Donal.

Wren Wisp-Wings how ??? How is that even possible

Wren Wisp-Wings You do have an Irish accent just probably not a very broad, strong one. But other nationalites would be able to tell your Irish, it's the way we speak

Thanks

I prefer Irish women's to their accent....

Lulu Love I’m Irish 🤘🏻☘️🇮🇪

But do you? She cannot pronounce her own name. It is not SERSHUH, it is SEERSHUH always.

No one says that

A lot of cats

@@Last-Lap-Lando4 dam right there is

@@MM-gp9mb Nearly every American I’ve met (a lot, I worked part time in a travel agency) said they were basically Irish, I would say “oh really that’s great, may I ask how?” And their response?? “Oh my great great grandma, her father’s second cousin three times removed married my great great grandma’s and blah blah blah” like literally if they took a DNA test it probably wouldn’t even mark Ireland because the percentage of Irish in them would be so small 🙄😑

@@L.C123 I guarantee u the amount of americans u met is less than 1% of the population 💀

Hector Ramirez right, I wonder why is not there much biting!

Mayur Kishanchandani poldark M

Mayur Kishanchandani is

cinemofo yup

Coimurhanlin = Can

cinemofo Queeva

It's either keeva or kweeva

Wren Wisp-Wings My nan always said it like that