Irish Accent Voice Over Recordings

Working with translation and production companies

Adding audio visual services to your mix will create many new sales opportunities for your team. We can add translation, voiceover and subtitling to your company’s offering, which will appear seamless to your clients and yet mesh easily with the processes in your own departments.

Matinée has over 40 years of experience working alongside translation and production companies. So you can be sure our project managers are fully at home with the technical process of supervising and delivering localised material, in a professional and timely manner.

If you are a translation company, we will send you some helpful guidelines for providing us with copy or scripts, as they will need to be formatted correctly for voicing or for subtitling. If you are a production company, we can organise translations and create the subtitles in your preferred format. Voiceover recordings can be supplied as edited files, or we can remix with the original music and effects and layback to complete the new video soundtrack, ready to go.

Working seamlessly with your team, we can take on all or part of the process, according to your needs, and help widen your service offering.

Origins of the Irish language and accent

The English language arrived in Ireland at the time of the Norman Invasion in around the 12th century, but at that time it was only spoken by a minority of people living around the city of Dublin.

However, by the 16th century, England had conquered the Irish and colonised Ireland. This led to the majority of Irish people speaking English as a first or second language. Written English in Ireland is much the same as standard British English, but spoken dialects have some differences and regional dialects sound very different.

There are five main dialects of Irish-English and these are:

• Ulster English – This is a dialect that is spoken in the province of Ulster. It has influences from Scotland because Scottish settlers came to Ulster in the 1600s.
• West and South West Irish English – This is an accent with a high pitched sound and it can be heard by people living in the areas of Cork and Kerry.
• Local Dublin English – This is an accent from Dublin. Vowel sounds in this accent are made into two syllables instead of one. It is said to be the working class accent of Irish- English.
• Non Dublin English – This is said to be a more cultured accent and comes from Eastern Ireland. It was seen as the fashionable way to speak by young Dubliners and is said to be a less ‘irish’ way of speaking.
• Supraregional Southern Irish English – This is an accent that is carried through Southern Ireland. Some of the pronunciation appears to have an American influence and it is an accent that has appeared fairly recently, since the 1980s

The English-Irish language has loan words from the Irish language (Gaelic) and there are influences in some words from Old and Middle English. To hear English spoken with an Irish accent listen to this You Tube Interview with Daniel O’Donnell, you’ll notice that the interviewer has also got an accent, he’s from New Zealand.