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.

In the past few years, two Irish men have gotten Best Actor Oscar nominations and neither of them were playing Irish characters. For Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy, who won the award, practiced the ...

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), ...

Pierce Brosnan may be Irish by blood, but his MobLand accent has been met with a chorus of disapproval following the premiere of the Paramount+ series. The Irish Times pilloried his “mangled” vocal ...

Accent, it turns out, is a bit of a battleground. While Ireland has an astonishing number of regional accents relative to its small size, few are internationally recognised. Send an American or a Brit ...

For Alexa to speak like a Dubliner, Amazon researchers had to crack a problem that’s vexed data scientists for years: voice disentanglement. By Bernhard Warner Reporting from Dublin Like Henry Higgins ...

You better knock off that awful attempt at a Scottish brogue, mate: A team of researchers has found that people in the northern United Kingdom and Ireland are especially good at telling when you’re ...