Speaking at the Hay Festival, Marian Keyes told her audience that she wants actors 'who could do Irish accents properly' - JAY WILLIAMS/COPYRIGHT JAY WILLIAMS Marian Keyes has bemoaned terrible Irish ...

The U.S. has dozens of distinct regional accents reflecting not just place, but also race and ancestry. But these days, the world isn't as regionally confined as it used to be: Media comes from all ...

Two Irish actors have been named as having one of the sexiest voices in the world. While the Irish accent is often considered one of the most attractive in the world, regional accents and tones of ...

The Irish accent is consistently voted one of the most attractive in the world, yet even some of the world’s finest actors have trouble with it. Leonardo DiCaprio tried, as did Julia Roberts (twice), ...

The Irish accent is generally perceived as favorable to Americans, a recent survey from Highland Titles found. Overall, Americans found the Irish accent to be the fourth 'most attractive,' ranking ...

Pierce Brosnan is standing up for his Irish roots. The 72-year-old actor responded to the criticism of the Irish accent he uses in his Paramount+ crime drama series “MobLand.” “My own accent is very ...

Pierce Brosnan may be a native Irishman. But for his Paramount+ series “MobLand,” he needed to find a new accent to play gangster patriarch Conrad Harrigan. “I have enormous fun with Conrad,” he said.

It's the start of the St. Patrick's Day season, a time when people often treat themselves to watching their favorite Irish movies. From "The Quiet Man" to "The Commitments" and anything starring the ...

The man developed an Irish brogue even though he had never been to locations in Ireland like Dublin, pictured here. (Photo by Robert Alexander/Getty Images) This may have been a wee bit of a surprise.

Don’t try to bamboozle people from Scotland and Ireland by imitating their brogue—it likely won’t work. Residents of Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin and northeast England are better at detecting fake ...