36427 Fáilte (Welcome) › Forums › General Discussion (Irish and English) › Dialect in Longford › 36427 December 5, 2012 at 7:11 pm #42952 MurchadhParticipant Douglas Hyde spoke Roscommon Irish. Any recordings of him speaking Irish might give a general idea of what Longford Irish would have sounded like. Mayo Irish would be about as close as you could come to it today.