I want to learn how to speak English with an Irish accent.
What are the first steps I should do?
It's certainly haunting. Dear old Dad does put on a bit of what sounds like an Irish inflection to my American ears, but he doesn't sound like an American trying to reproduce an Irish accent.Just to give everybody an excuse to listen to this wonderfully haunting ballad again, if you go to 2:00 you'll hear Papa Kelly using a speaking voice. It doesn't sound particularly Irish to me. Perhaps he's deliberately (and unsuccessfully) trying to put on an Irish accent. As far as I can tell, the US-born Daniel Jerome Kelly never lived in the old country, and neither did his children.
It's certainly haunting.
millions of people paid to be exposed to it.
He sounds like an American introducing some aspects of what he perceives as an Irish accent into his delivery.How about this guy, does he sound authentic Irish to you?