This is yet another "oirish" monstrosity. I noticed this while living in England becauase I certainly never saw it in at home in Ireland on Irish TV channels. This is yet another b'gara and b'jesus, let's follow a rainbow and find a Leprechaun and dance a ceile at the crossroads pile of toss. Stop it America! Stop putting on Irish accents, you can't do it so stop trying.
I was a bit skeptical too when I first saw it, but I think it's actually a clever trope subvertion. What changed my mind was seeing the setting of the show. It's two kids in modern times being told stories from their Grandfather about his childhood.
The kids are dressed in modern slightly skateboardish clothes, their mother is dressed normally, they all talk in a modern irish accent. The only oirish character in the present is the grandfather and he's from rural Ireland.
So my take is that it's a fair representation of Ireland in the present and the recent past. My grandparents and the people from that generation that I have known all did and still do talk like that and acted that way in their childhood.
I have to reevaluate my opinion of this show. I watched it again the other day (yes i should have been doing work but oh well!). It is actually very sweet and when you start watching it you just forget the accents. I retract my previous comment as i was on a bit of a rant.
I know what you mean - when I saw the trailers for it I thought Oh no, Oirish fellas with pigs under their arms and their trousers held up with string, B'gorra but on watching it I fell in love with it.
We realised that as far as Cbeebies in the UK (the BBC preschool tv station) it is the only programme where children actually behave like children. The stories might have a moral but it isn't rammed down your throat!
One thing I can't stand is intolerance.
redhotridinghood: you can now catch it on RTE 2 in the afternoons around 2.30pm!
share""Stop it America!""
Hilarious....stop visiting American websites if you have such a problem with the greatest country in the world, by far. Amazing.
obviously didn't read the thread.
shareErr, IMDB was created in Bristol, England. The Internet Movie Data Base is NOT an American website.
Also, if they do have a problem with the greatest country in the world - Scotland - what does that have to do with American or English websites?
Really? I remember logging on to a web site that I would have sworn was IMDB in the early '90's. It was created by students at some university in Texas or Louisiana or someplace down south. Soon after it was created it was mirrored in other countries but I believe it was created here. I could be wrong but I've been using this site for quite a while. This has piqued my curiosity about IMDB's origin. If you have more info I'd like to know.
shareWiki tells me it was first hosted in Cardiff, Wales (UK). Can't find a back-up for my Bath claim, but I'm sure I heard it from multiple sources, so am still fairly sure that it is true. Can't find any claim for Texas or elsewhere down the US south.
shareIsn't Peadar Lamb Irish himself?
Save a horse, ride a cowboy.
We've been trying to forget our accents for quite some time:
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/search.php?queryType=@attr%201=4&query=How+can+they+tell+that+I%27m+Irish&num=1&start=1&sortBy=&sortOrder=id
Thanks for reminding us why.