Hiberno-English
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Oct 5, 2026
Katherine PetruccelliHOST
And do you think the, do those rhythms match up then in the cadence of the Irish language? Do you think that's where it is drawn from?
Audrey MolloyGUEST
And the cadence of Hiberno-English.
Audrey MolloyGUEST
So the way Irish people say things differently, the way they say, I was just after going to the shops when I, you know, the way they talk is more like the cadences of these Hiberno-English poets.
Audrey MolloyGUEST
So whether it's Clarke or Yeats or Patrick Kavanagh, They're just beautiful poems.
Audrey MolloyGUEST
And I remember those poems from that age.
Ferdia LennonGUEST
I suppose one thing that comes out is that it's set in ancient Sicily, but if you were to read it, you would almost think it's set in contemporary Dublin.
Ferdia LennonGUEST
There's a kind of a very kind of Hiberno-English Dublin voice at the, at the center of the book, which I, I chose for, for a number of reasons, not least because I'm from Dublin.
PeteHOST
Ferdiad, it's quite an unusual premise.
PeteHOST
Like, where did that come from? You...
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Ferdia LennonGUEST
You know, had been colonized by Britain.
GillianHOST
Mm-hmm.
Ferdia LennonGUEST
It was an insider, but it was an also an insider that was an outsider that was on the periphery, and seemed to me that Hiberno-English could be a way to capture that, that sense of, yeah, part of the Greek world, but also at a slant, also not.
Ferdia LennonGUEST
And give a sense of that colonial past.
Ray D'ArcyHOST
It's, it's brilliant, isn't it? Uh, so the Welsh are owning it, but I, I think we had an influence on it as well.
Ray D'ArcyHOST
It's one, it's one of those Hiberno-Irish phrases.
Ray D'ArcyHOST
Yeah, I will.
Ray D'ArcyHOST
Yeah, I will.
Louise O'NeillGUEST
But like, I think as a writer, when you are someone who is so invested in language to feel like I am writing in a language that is not my own.
Louise O'NeillGUEST
And I often, you know, will particularly because I, you know, my books are published in the UK and with British publishers and the copy editors will often make observations like, oh, you know, this is Hiberno English.
Louise O'NeillGUEST
And not in a, like, there's something wrong with that, but just let's say if a book is set in America, that that's not quite, you know, it's not going to sound right or whatever.
Louise O'NeillGUEST
And that I always find fascinating because I'm like, oh, the syntax of the way that I speak is shaped by Irish.
MaanadhGUEST
So, yeah.
EmmaHOST
And we have our own kind of like hiberno English as well in the way we kind of phrase things slightly different sometimes as well, which I'd say probably took some getting used to.
EmmaHOST
But so tell us what your day job is.
MaanadhGUEST
So my day job is I'm a data scientist.
Orla DiamantinoGUEST
He's a cork man.
Orla DiamantinoGUEST
But he talks about Hiberno English and how the Irish speak English.
Orla DiamantinoGUEST
And he's put so much work, an incredible amount of research into compiling this book.
Orla DiamantinoGUEST
It blew me away.
Orla DiamantinoGUEST
I have to read you a little bit here about the word amant, right? We all say, are you? I amant.
Orla DiamantinoGUEST
I amant.
Orla DiamantinoGUEST
You know that? Do you use it? He says, like a lot of Hiberno English, amant is one where you one day realize it's not widespread enough, even though it's the most natural thing in the world.
Orla DiamantinoGUEST
You've been saying it since you were three and a parent accused you of being overtired.
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