Dingle Co Kerry Male Reading

Reading

The Rainbow Passage

When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act as a prism and form a rainbow. The rainbow is a division of white light into many beautiful colors. These take the shape of a long round arch, with its path high above, and its two ends apparently beyond the horizon. There is, according to legend, a boiling pot of gold at one end. People look, but no one ever finds it. When a man looks for something beyond his reach, his friends say he is looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Dingle Co Kerry Male Conversation

Conversation

I was born in Cork City and I was raised here in Dingle for – I’ve been here all my life. What I do – ___ is family friends of ours, of our family. I knew him, and so I actually started here originally on work experience – I was doing a computer course and the computer course lasted for a few months and then we all had to get work experience so I got it here. So I worked here for a month. Then I was taken on full-time after that.

Male: Wonderful. Can you tell me what the exhibit is?

Well this is a cultural, the Celtic Culture Centre and, we have Harry Clarke windows in the chapel upstairs and they’re very well known. Harry Clarke is a very well-known Irish stained glass artist. People come from all over the world to see them. Well there’s six windows and twelve frames and there are Harry Clarke windows all over Ireland. Probably his best known one would be the one on Morlan Street, no, Grafton Street. It has stained glass windows back of the church, back of the restaurant.

Male: And so has this artist also done other stained glass windows throughout...?

Throughout Ireland, and Australia, England and America as well.

Male: Do you know if they’re tended to be made here and then shipped over to these other countries or...?

I’m not sure really, I’m not sure about that. But the ones here were done specially for this church here – they were designed for this church. A lot of people around here speak Irish but I didn’t really – my parents weren’t from around here, although my father used to speak Irish for his work. I answer the phone in Irish. Some people come in here will be Irish speakers – I will speak Irish to them.

Male: Yeah. And I suppose like most people you probably understand more than you’re able to speak as well?

Yeah, that’s true, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Killarney Co Kerry Two Males Reading

Reading

The Rainbow Passage

When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act as a prism and form a rainbow. The rainbow is a division of white light into many beautiful colors. These take the shape of a long round arch, with its path high above, and its two ends apparently beyond the horizon. There is, according to legend, a boiling pot of gold at one end. People look, but no one ever finds it. When a man looks for something beyond his reach, his friends say he is looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Killarney Co Kerry Two Males Conversation

Conversation

Male: I was born here in Killarney, in County Kerry. I moved from Cork when I was four years of age and I’ve been living in Killarney ever since.

Male3: And so how did you end up working here?

Male: I went for a job interview about four years ago and low and behold I got the job in here. So it was all good. Despite the fact that they met me, I got the job. Looks can be deceiving though.

Male3: What are some of the bizarrest requests that you had from people coming in here?

Male: I’ve had one lady one time she wanted the dog to sleep in the bed with her, but I don’t think that’s possible and the lady of the house wasn’t very happy with it either so the dog eventually had to sleep outside in the shed. Other than that, you probably get people looking for places that don’t even exist – they’re the best ones really.

Male3: Can you tell me about the national forest? I was curious about…?

Male: The national park? Yeah, the national park is just across the street there. There’s forestry walks, river walks – you can go down as far as Ross Castle, which is down on the lakeshore. It’s about an hour, maybe an hour’s walk down there. You can get a boat ride down there around the lakes or you can do a horse and cart as well, which is very popular in the local area.

Male3: And it’s all very accessible from here?

Male: Very accessible – just across the street, in there – there’s an entrance across the road from the Cathedral and very accessible to anyone, yeah.

Male3: Do you have any favorite hikes through it?

Male: My favorite hike would actually be the Gap of Dunloe, which is about twenty minutes outside of town and that would be a walk, a cycle or a horse and carriage through the valley and you get a boat back then down into town through the lakes.

Male3: So the lakes come all the way into town?

Male: The lakes come all the way, well they come as far as Ross Castle, which is only two and a half kilometers from town. Yeah, it’s pretty good. 

Male2: There was one night, it was about a week ago... yeah, it was Killorglin Summer Fest, and it was for two weeks. Like you had Irish Open Golf was here as well, that was held here. So it's been oh, for about for two weeks I’d say.

Male3: So it’s been really busy?

Male: Yeah, it’s just over now. There’s a local one over right in Killorglin - it’s about fifteen miles from here. Puck Fair is the name of it, and that’s – it’s known, like it’s known, they actually get a goat, they catch a goat and put it up on a stand for three days and it’s a festival, like there was…They parade it around the goat

Male2: They parade it around the goat, really like this kind of drunken, kind of Irish kind of thing.

Male: Three days of drinking – they just they put the goat on a big stand in the street – the town is like one big street in the hill and they put the goat up on the stand and they literally just drink around him for a week. Music festivals…

Male3: There’s no other point of the goat?

Male2: Oh, there is…

Male3: Well…it’s traditional.

Male2: It’s going on for like three thousand years like – that’s what they say it’s, it goes to about. It’s just stalls, you know – you’d have stalls there, you’d have things you can buy, ornaments, kind of anything really.

Male3: Okay, but I have to ask what is the significance of the goat?

Male2: The goat is just…

Male: King Puck.

Male2: King Puck is the name of it.

Male: Puck. Killorglin itself is known, the goat itself is King Puck – it’s the symbol of Killorglin, and people literally just celebrate this King Puck every year. They catch a new goat every year and place him up on the top for three days.

Male2: It’s every year – the tenth to the twelfth of August every year. It doesn’t matter what day it’s on, like it’s just the tenth to twelfth. It could a weekend one day, it could be a weekday the next day.

Male3: So where did the goat come from as the…?

Male2: They go out and they catch the goat like every – there’s a fellow I know that does it – I forget his name – but he goes out every week before Puck and they go up the mountain and they catch a wild goat.

Male3: Oh, it’s always a wild goat?

Male: Yeah. They have to go out and chase him around.

Male3: And how is it staying up in a tree?

Male: It’s a big stand – it’s a huge stand.

Male2: It’s about – you could say sixty feet in the air and it’s about eight feet by eight feet you could say like on top. They feed him every day. Like they don’t exactly...

Male3: It’s not that they’re starving him or…?

Male: No. You get a few drunk fellas that wake up and try and feed him a bit of drink but it doesn’t work out.

Male2: Yeah, at nighttime they try to climb up the pole, but they don't tend to get up, they just...

Male: It’s a must-see – definitely.

Male3: Ah, that’s great.

Male: A once in a lifetime experience, you could say.

Male3: Are you – where were you born and raised in?

Male2: Well I born in Cork, which I was just born in the hospital but I’m here the whole time – I’m in Killarney my whole life. County Kerry. It’s just a hospital you see. There's no hospital...

Male: There’s no hospital in Kerry.

Male2: You see there was no hospital in Kerry you see at the time. There was a local one alright but it wasn’t, it’s not as big as the Cork Hospital. It’s about an hour, about twenty minutes from Killarney. So…

Male3: So that’s the main reason why…

Male2: That’s the main reason.

Male: It’s the only reason.

Male2: Just up to you know you’re just there, you come out, your out of the hospital three days later and you’re back down here then. That’s about it.

Male: Yeah, that’s really it.

Male3: If I’m only here for a day, what do you suggest that I do?

Male2: A day? Have you been anywhere yet since you started? You just arrived in town, just for the day? Have you a bike or? No, just walking. I’d say what he said there, down by Ross Castle, I’d say there’s…just across the way as you can see there that’s the path like. Just through there down by the river I suppose – it’s all signposted and they’re, you know it’s well mapped, it’s all tarmac, it's all packed soil. It’s not dirt track really like, you know. Down at Ross Castle there’s boats then that will take you out to Innisfalen Island, which is on the lake, it’s the biggest island on the lake. They go out there every hour or so – there’s boatmen there anyway that can bring you out if you ask them, enquire to take you out there and there’s also a cruise which would be on the Livia Killarney or The Pride of Lakes is the name of the waterbus and they take you out there and every I think it’s two or three a day – the next one I’d say is on half four. But I would say if you want I mean, I would say but that would be the town side of the park. If you wanted to go further out, you’d have to go as far as Muckross House and Torc Waterfall. That’s about six kilometers from town. So you’d have to walk six kilometers before you get there but there is a path right about three kilometers out that takes you into the park. So you’d have to be walking on the main road the whole time. It just veers off into the park from there. Muckross House and Torc, well, by the time you’ve all that done it'd be about eight o'clock, I'd say, but that would be about it, I’d say. That would be the main things to do, the main attractions.

Currow Co Kerry Male Reading

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The Rainbow Passage

When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act as a prism and form a rainbow. The rainbow is a division of white light into many beautiful colors. These take the shape of a long round arch, with its path high above, and its two ends apparently beyond the horizon. There is, according to legend, a boiling pot of gold at one end. People look, but no one ever finds it. When a man looks for something beyond his reach, his friends say he is looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Currow Co Kerry Male Conversation

Conversation

Okay, I was actually born in New York. Yeah, that's a bit of a strange one. I lived there for about five years then moved over here when I was, yeah, about five or six years old. Now, in that time I was told that we'd, you know, flew over and back by plane. But I'm not even too sure about that either because, you know, I was so young, didn't-- don't remember most of it. But since then been living here. I was told when I came over I had a very thick New York accent, very strong accent. And, you know, they got that out of me pretty quick. But even still, you know, even from working here you have to try and learn to speak clearly so that, you know, people from all over the world can understand you. So I'm not even sure if-- if even my accent would be, you know, entirely what you want. But around here there's, you know, plenty of places. You can-- You can meet so many people. And, you know, people around here are mostly friendly, you know? So you'll have no trouble getting people like-- like this, you know, to help you.

Male: How-- How would your accent be, you think, if you let it be thicker?

Yeah. If I-- If I let it be thicker, you know, when-- when I go home, you know, when I'm having dinner with my family, it gets-- it gets much, much worse. You know? People say, "I can't understand you." So, you know, I kind of have to switch off for a moment and try to do that again. But, you know, if I'm sitting around, sitting at home having dinner with my dad, you know, just start chatting away. We have a small farm out there, so when I was younger we used to work on that, do a lot of cows, horses. You know? It's-- It's really tough work, actually. Much worse than this; here it's standing and sit down, have a chat with people. Lovely, it's great. But out at home, you know, you're up six in the morning working pretty hard all day long. But it's, you know, still fun. I do-- I do enjoy it, you know? You're driving tractors, doing bales of hay. I don't know, you might-- You might not even know what half of the stuff means, but--

Male: I do. I grew up on a farm in Iowa.

Oh, really? Yeah? Oh, cool. But that's-- Yeah, that's pretty much it. It's-- it's-- it's fun work to be honest. Yeah, it's pretty good, pretty good. Also, spent a year in Germany, which I'm not even sure if that comes through anymore but that-- that could be a factor. I studied German for about four years. And like, I'll be honest with you, I forget every bit of it now at this stage. I'm going to college in Cork. Have-- Have you heard of Cork? Yeah. I'm there and I'm studying medicine at the moment. So, you know, you get to meet a lot of interesting people through that. So, you know, I've had to really work to get rid of the thick, country accent. So, I think, you know, going back-- trying to get it back is, you know, it's easier said than done.

But-- Around-- Let's see-- You know, when-- When you're down, in Currow is where I live--it's about twenty minutes drive from here--we-- Every night of the week we go out do a bit of football training. You know? Football-- Gaelic football is really popular here. So, that's one of the main things that, you know, country life is all about. We-- I was told back, back when my parents were my age, the only thing they could do is meet other people. It was, you know, either go to mass, go to these kind of dances, or go and play football. So, football really holds a really strong bearing in, you know, you know, country life, so it's one of those things. But now, of course, I got my own car. Got everything-- You can go wherever you want. The thing these days when a country guy like myself gets his car, he's gone. He's never seen again because he wants to get out of the country. So.

Male: And it's true for you?

Oh, absolutely. Yeah. You can imagine living in the country. You might know yourself, but Idaho is it-- is it really big? Is it built up? It's probably much bigger than here but, you know, when-- when you're in a countryside it's-- you live there, you go to school there, you see the whole area, the same thing every day for whatever--sixteen years? When you get a chance to go out you're gone. You know? You do get sick of the country side after a while, but yeah.

Male: I grew up in a town of nine hundred.

Oh, okay. You know. You know what it's like.

Male: I do.

Co Kerry Female Reading

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The Rainbow Passage

When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act as a prism and form a rainbow. The rainbow is a division of white light into many beautiful colors. These take the shape of a long round arch, with its path high above, and its two ends apparently beyond the horizon. There is, according to legend, a boiling pot of gold at one end. People look, but no one ever finds it. When a man looks for something beyond his reach, his friends say he is looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Co Kerry Female Conversation

Conversation

I’m from County Kerry. It’s the county next to County Cork. I work in my mam’s pharmacy. It’s here in the city center. I’ve been working here a year now. In Cork, in the city here, it’s nice to go to the English Market. It’s very popular with tourists. And then there’s lots of towns outside of Cork. So like Kinsale, that’s lovely as well. And in Kerry, just do the Ring of Kerry, and there’s loads of towns around that. 

There’s different, I suppose, colloquialisms associated with each place. I definitely say a lot of them. Yeah, you’d know a Limerick accent is different to Cork, definitely yeah. 

Okay, started work at nine o’clock. Our day here is nine until five forty-five. So we just tend to customers. We do prescriptions here and then we have the fragrance side as well and the beauty. And yeah, we’ve lots of regular customers and lots of tourists and different people coming through as well. Not so far. I’ll be working on Saturday and then I’ll be off on Sunday.

Caragh Bridge Co Kerry Male Reading

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The Rainbow Passage

When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act as a prism and form a rainbow. The rainbow is a division of white light into many beautiful colors. These take the shape of a long round arch, with its path high above, and its two ends apparently beyond the horizon. There is, according to legend, a boiling pot of gold at one end. People look, but no one ever finds it. When a man looks for something beyond his reach, his friends say he is looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Caragh Bridge Co Kerry Male Conversation

Conversation

This my donkey, Paddy, and my dog, Colleen. And we’re camped here on the side of the road takin’ photographs of the Denby Road, yes. Oh, yes, well I’ll… We come here for the tourists, and the tourists got here, which was actually around half nine, and we’re finishin’ around one o’clock. Yes. Oh, there’ll be different accents of different places. Do you need to know a Cork man when you see him? Hear their voice. And a Dublin man as well. There’s… When you go in Kerry, different things, yes, voices. Oh, no, we’re hearin’ that all our life. Yes, it’s an old… My father would say it and my grandfather would say it. Yes, an old tradition. Yeah, well, we make here at Saint Brigid’s Crosses, and the tourists buy ‘em and they bring ‘em back to their homes. It keeps ‘em safe and they hang it above the kitchen door. Yes. Oh, yes. Well, today now we’ll go home and we’ll watch… and after we’ll watch the match, Kerry and Cork. They’re playing Gaelic football.

Baslicon Co Kerry Male Reading

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The Rainbow Passage

When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act as a prism and form a rainbow. The rainbow is a division of white light into many beautiful colors. These take the shape of a long round arch, with its path high above, and its two ends apparently beyond the horizon. There is, according to legend, a boiling pot of gold at one end. People look, but no one ever finds it. When a man looks for something beyond his reach, his friends say he is looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Baslicon Co Kerry Male Conversation

Conversation

From this village, Waterville. It’s by the sea in Southwest Ireland. There is an… there’s a beach and there’s two golf courses. Waterville Golf Links and Hogs Head. And there’s plenty like pubs and all like. There’s like statues, you know, Mike O’Dwyer and Charlie Chaplin down the village and all that. So yeah, there’s plenty. I haven’t done much today really. Only just come to work and got up and worked and that was it. So yeah. That’s… this. Well, Cork is kind of… I don’t know, Cork is completely different like to Kerry if you’re here for some Cork talkin’. I don’t know, they just have a different like… It’s… Every county kind of has their own accent, I suppose. Don’t know. I don’t know really, just kind of… I don’t know how to explain it. It’s just kind of farmer accent kind of thing, I don’t know what is. Well, the Lodge. The Sea Lodge in Iveragh. The Butlers, The Lobster, The Villa, and yeah. That’s all that’s here. They’re all good like.

Baslicon Co Kerry Male Reading

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The Rainbow Passage

When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act as a prism and form a rainbow. The rainbow is a division of white light into many beautiful colors. These take the shape of a long round arch, with its path high above, and its two ends apparently beyond the horizon. There is, according to legend, a boiling pot of gold at one end. People look, but no one ever finds it. When a man looks for something beyond his reach, his friends say he is looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Baslicon Co Kerry Male Conversation

Conversation

I’m from around here. Down the road about ten miles. I was actually born in England, right? My parents immigrated time back in the fifties, and I was born there and lived there for about three or four years. Now, I was brought up there in the sense that my first language is Gaeilge, Irish. They were Irish and then spoke Irish as a lot of people in this country now that are Eastern Europe, Slovenia, Lithuania, and Polish. They work in Ireland. They came over to Ireland and you’d hear ‘em now and then speakin’ their own language. Right? It’s the same back in the fifties. The Irish would go over to England and they would feel out.. and they went to U.S.A., Australia, all over. So and then I came back. Parents came back and I’ve been here since essentially. That’s the long and the short of it. 

Speaking English? The accents. It’s… For it would be very interesting for you is actually if you went up the West Coast and you started talking to people with a Northern accent, which is, we’d say someone from Donegal. And if you hear ‘em talk in English, and then they… and ask ‘em to speak in Irish. So Irish is a hard language. In some senses but if it’s spoken with a Northern accent, it’s, God that would really unbelievably hard. You know? So how long are you going to… Well, you want just want me to be talkin’ rather than you, is that it? 

I would prefer if the Irish language was more used, but unfortunately, when I was goin’ to school and my generation, which would be, we’ll say people that were born… I was born in the fifties. Fifties and sixties, the educational system was, well, like Irish was, as an idiom, was dying out to a certain stage. At that stage, English was becoming more and more pronounced and people and the way people were taught, it wasn’t great. Irish… And if you spoke… If you went around and spoke to a lot of my generation, and the thing about it, they hated the Irish because it was the way it was taught, more than ideas. You know, and it was drilled into people and the mechanical way. You know yourself through everything it’s a lot easier to get people to do things for you with the carrot than the stick. You might be going for the same end result and the old Machiavellian theory of the end justifies the means in a lot of cases.

Describe you, as if I was telling you to [speaks Irish]. In the sense that, I’m saying to you, you just came into the shop, and a guy popped up to me, and asked me to be talking about just in the accent, my own accent, so the Irish for that basically said to you is [speaks Irish].

Firies Co Kerry Male Reading

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The Rainbow Passage

When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act as a prism and form a rainbow. The rainbow is a division of white light into many beautiful colors. These take the shape of a long round arch, with its path high above, and its two ends apparently beyond the horizon. There is, according to legend, a boiling pot of gold at one end. People look, but no one ever finds it. When a man looks for something beyond his reach, his friends say he is looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Firies Co Kerry Male Conversation

Conversation

You should read Adam’s universe because my aunt owns it in the school. And I’m from Firies. We play football. And Lisa Halloran’s my girlfriend. And that guy has a cool jacket. I had football training, and then I had a sandwich. I had a chicken sandwich with the tikka, chicken tikka, you know. And my brother’s girlfriend was at my house, and her name’s Clauda. She’s from Fossa. Hendersons in Firies. It’s a nice pub. Nice pub. They have cheap enough pints. And the back, they always have food. Like chicken goujons and chips. I like going to town with Lisa. I like playing football on the lawn and soccer. And well, like, we just, I have like a few running teams and football teams and soccer teams really.

Tralee Co Kerry Female Reading

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The Rainbow Passage

When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act as a prism and form a rainbow. The rainbow is a division of white light into many beautiful colors. These take the shape of a long round arch, with its path high above, and its two ends apparently beyond the horizon. There is, according to legend, a boiling pot of gold at one end. People look, but no one ever finds it. When a man looks for something beyond his reach, his friends say he is looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Tralee Co Kerry Female Conversation

Conversation

I am from Tralee. I live in a place called Ballymack. This would be a Kerry accent, I suppose. I’m here in Killarney. There are a lot of fun things to do. You can go visit Killarney National Park. You can see Ross Castle, Ring of Kerry, Dingle Peninsula, it’s a beautiful area. Yeah. Be kind. Thickest accent you could probably find around South Kerry, down around Cahersiveen, Waterville, Ballinskelligs. Anywhere around the Ring of Kerry. If you head down around Slea Head, you’ll get a lot of… it’s a Gaeltacht area, so a lot of them will speak Irish out there. So you’ll get the proper old Ireland. Go for the old people, you know, like the real auld ones. The nans and granddads. 

Female: The auld ones?

Yeah, they’re the ones with the strongest accents. Yeah, pubs. There’s a great place a couple of doors up. It’s called J.M. Reidy’s. They do live music from around seven o’clock onwards. You also have a cocktail bar in there. Great vibe. Great cocktails. Up the street then there’s a place called Murphy’s. Courtney’s. Tatler Jacks if you like your sports. There’s a big match actually on at seven o’clock. Kerry and Cork are playing, so definitely check out a bar and check out that.

Rathmore Co Kerry Male Reading

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The Rainbow Passage

When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act as a prism and form a rainbow. The rainbow is a division of white light into many beautiful colors. These take the shape of a long round arch, with its path high above, and its two ends apparently beyond the horizon. There is, according to legend, a boiling pot of gold at one end. People look, but no one ever finds it. When a man looks for something beyond his reach, his friends say he is looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Rathmore Co Kerry Male Conversation

Conversation

Rathmore, County Kerry. No, I’ve always lived in Rathmore. Yeah, always lived in the same estate. I’ve actually moved three houses, but all in the same. Always like… It’s always just moving to bigger house. Say when we start out we were a small family, we were in a bungalow. We moved up to a three-bedroom house, now we’re in a four-bedroom house, you know. 

Yeah, you’ve all of them. The Muckross National Park over. There’s Muckross Abbey, Muckross House. There’s Torc Waterfall, there’s all that. You’ve all the Gap of Dunloe around the place. You’ve loads of sites around here. It’s actually very nice. You have, in Cork, you have all the Blarney Stone. You’ve all, everything like that, you know. It’s all very nice to see like. 

Oh, the Pap Mountains? Yeah, I actually live very close to Pap Mountains. I’ve done… I’ve climbed that a good twenty times, I’d say. Even when I don’t want to go climbing, I have to go chasing animals up there and sheep and all that helping the father out. We run the farm ourselves like. So a bit like that. So it’s all nice though, all very nice views all around the place. Great mountainous views, all of these rural areas. Class. Yeah. Very nice. 

Well, to be honest, I haven’t done much all day. I went out. I got a haircut, and I’ve been here since. Now I’m waitin’ to go home and have a beer then. That’s about it. And a day’s drink, yeah, I said. Nice enough. 

And so, anyway you move up the northern side of Ireland and enjoy a very, very strong accent, as I mean, a lot of you probably wouldn’t be able to understand that Northern Ireland. Very hard. Yeah, I used to it. I didn’t think you’d be used to it. I’m barely used to it and I live in Ireland. Jeez. But that’s what it, yeah... There is a lot of various languages I enjoy, they all sound that, since they’re all very, very different but, do you know, at the end of the day, we all try our best to get along. Oh, well, Cork will have more of that ___. Yeah, no, around Kerry and all you’d have your kind of farmer talk, but there’s only some have that. And then you have people that talk a bit more rude than others. Do you know, have that. Like do you know have certain types of slang, like do you know, all that. 

I’ve more of an urban accent I’d say, but a lot of people probably listening have a rural accent will say the same thing to us. It all would vary with who you meet. You meet some people who have very strong rural accents. And then people with very strong urban accents, and they’d tell you you sound completely different. Then like, yeah, you sound like townie to a country boy and a country boy to a townie boy, do you know what kind of that way, yeah. No, around here, the most posh they kind of, well, when I and John are speakin’, we kind of speak fluently more than, you know, kind of fast talk. The posher people would slow their words, more pronounce every letter of the word. You know like say a Porsche car now, we’d call ‘em a Porsche. But like see they’d call ‘em Porsches. Do you know? They’d have that… they’d have to pronounce that ‘e’ kind of. All that kind of little touches like.

Male: We’d say like, “A boat,” and they’d say a boat.

Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

Male: A boat!

Killarney Co Kerry Male Reading

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The Rainbow Passage

When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act as a prism and form a rainbow. The rainbow is a division of white light into many beautiful colors. These take the shape of a long round arch, with its path high above, and its two ends apparently beyond the horizon. There is, according to legend, a boiling pot of gold at one end. People look, but no one ever finds it. When a man looks for something beyond his reach, his friends say he is looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Killarney Co Kerry Male Conversation

Conversation

I grew up in Killarney. I’ve lived here all my life. I went to college in Cork. When I finished college, I did a good bit of traveling. I’ve been to America a few times. I’ve been to Vietnam. I’ve traveled to lots of places in Europe. Galway would probably be one of the nicer cities. Dublin’s very popular and Cork is also pretty popular as well. 

In here, in this town? I would say The Grand. Well, it depends if you’re looking for a nightclub or a bar depending really. Late bars would be The Grand, Social Fifteen, Mcsorleys up there. And then decent bars to go out during the day maybe be Charlie Foley’s, Reidys is just on Main Street there, and Scott’s Hotel which is up the road as well. 

Just covering on what he said. There’s… You don’t have to drive too far to find different Irish accents around the place. You can go fifteen minutes out the road and you’re gonna hear a different accent, and people can barely understand each other when… even when they’re from a very short distance away. Alright, lads. Irish speakers. Dingle, yeah, it’s about an hour and ten minutes away, and Gougane Barra, as well out the Cork Road, that’s maybe thirty minutes drive away. It’s… That’s a Gaeltacht area as well, so they speak some Irish out there. 

This morning and I had breakfast. Then I played with my dog, and then I was playing poker on my computer all day, and I took loads of people’s money.

Kerry-Cork Traveller Male Reading

Reading

The Rainbow Passage

When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act as a prism and form a rainbow. The rainbow is a division of white light into many beautiful colors. These take the shape of a long round arch, with its path high above, and its two ends apparently beyond the horizon. There is, according to legend, a boiling pot of gold at one end. People look, but no one ever finds it. When a man looks for something beyond his reach, his friends say he is looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Kerry-Cork Traveller Male Conversation

Conversation

As a child, I was in a rough part of Cork. If you’re friends, don’t do your friends, but strangers robbed, fight, everything. I moved up to Killarney, and Killarney is a nice, quiet town. Good town for the tourists. That’s why guards keep heavy on everything. They don’t want no trouble, no fightin’ or nothin’. So around Killarney is good. Cork is rougher. Killarney, Kerry is good. So if you’re, it seems like, you can walk around here like that. He don’t know me, I don’t know he, but you know there’s no problems or anything like. And I might have an old, bit of a rough head, but I’m quiet. Everyone around Killarney is pleasant. One or two bollockses obviously you’ll get, but you’ll get them everywhere. So this the kind of craic now, huh? Round here? There’s the Shire. It’s all made round. If you like Lord of the Rings, it’s all kind of made around that. It’s up near… down from the bus station and up right. If you ask anywhere where the Shire is, they’ll tell you. It’s all Lord of the Rings, sorry, theme. So that could be a good place. Scotty’s Bar or Hotel. That’s meant to be a good place. If you’re around in August, Puck Fair. That’s a good place. Thousands of people there. 

A ___ one of the boys. He wouldn’t be considered a fool. A fool is a mog who’ll do anything. You sent the fool there, he’s on your own mog. He’ll walk ten miles down the road and bring up two bottles and get nothin’. A beour is a woman. A feek is sex. A decent feek means a decent, a very good-lookin’ young one. A box is the fanny. Also, like that. Mace is gettin’ robbed. Be wide is keep your head about you. Gas is drink. Mouldy is when after too much drink and all. That’s mouldy. A mog, like that again is a fool. He’s only innocent old mog. That means he’s a bit simple and he’s only a mog. John, he’s quiet. Does his own thing. What was I... Oh, staunch means… basically staunch means you wouldn’t rat no one. If the guards pull you, if you’re staunch, you won’t talk your mouth off. That was ___. Shite in the buckets. There’s also shitty asses. A shitty ass now is a fella… If I say to you, “We’ll fight.” And you say, “No,” you’ll be called a shitty ass. A fair-go is toe-to-toe bareknuckle. A dirty fight is when anything goes. You can pull a fella’s hair, bite his nose off. But it’s fair if it’s a dirty fight, you know what I mean? I don’t know. What do you call over in America, a mobile home? Yeah, they’re shells now, we call them shellys. And where they’re built in, that’s called the site. And if you’re not from a site, you don’t go into that site, ‘cause there’ll be war. Do you know? Lot of people fightin’, feudin’, and all that. Slash hook is about that size. It goes round, same with machetes, mallet. First it was… Oh, yeah, you know what things made hawkin’. Hawkin’ means goin’ homes callin’ door-to-door sayin’, “I’ll do paint and clean the gutters and all that.” That’s hawkin’.