Accent Quote by Katie Melua

I grew up with a very strong Irish accent.

— Dolores O'Riordan

I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish.

— Robin Williams

I kick myself that I don't speak Irish. Ah, man, I'd love to. I am going to learn.

— Barry Keoghan

I've got my roots in Northern Ireland - my biological father's side of the family were from Belfast.

— KT Tunstall

I've made 'The Pilgrimage' - where I actually had to speak Gaelic - and I was shooting in Belfast as well.

— Tom Holland

Listen, I'm from Belfast. We're not polite people. And it's language. We're direct.

— Paula Malcomson

My father was from Belfast; my mother was from Crossmolina. I grew up in Dublin.

— Colm Wilkinson

My dad's Irish, so I was visiting Ireland a lot as a kid, so it's not totally foreign to me.

— Katherine Ryan

People know I'm from Ireland or have Irish roots.

— Pat Connaughton

I'm from an Irish family and, even though I grew up in 80s London, I spent a lot of my childhood in southwest Ireland.

— Roisin Conaty

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

— Winston Churchill

I made loads of English and Irish friends at university and all they wanted to do was have a good time.

— Chris de Burgh