Dialect in Longford

[Brus]

What dialect would have been spoken in Longford in the decades preceding the famine? How common would Irish-speakers have been vs. English-speakers?

(Yes, this is about ancestors of mine)

[Lughaidh]

A kind of Connachta Irish, I guess, with some Ulster features? But it’s hard to know…

[Seáinín]

You might be interested in the Doegen Records Web Project (http://dho.ie/doegen/home). The recordings date between 1928 – 1931, and although there aren’t any from Longford, there are from surrounding counties. Not an authoritative answer to your question, but maybe a piece of the puzzle.

[Murchadh]

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.

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