Ireland is small country, but it's old, and people stay in the same village for hundreds of years, fucking their cousins. The same as the rest of the British Isles.
Which means local accents vary wildly across a short distance.
It hails back to the days before automobiles...30 miles is a long way to go by horse and cart when there are dodgy highway men out there too ready to strip you of your potatoes and virginity.
Hence why few people ever traveled more than 5 or 10 miles from their home. That's how those wildly different accents were born, Liverpool and Manchester for example, only 30 miles or so apart but wholly different accents.
Originally posted by rabbitweed
Ireland is small country, but it's old, and people stay in the same village for hundreds of years, fucking their cousins. The same as the rest of the British Isles.
Which means local accents vary wildly across a short distance.