Jim Norton reads p140-1 of Finnegans Wake by Peterchrisp published on 2011-03-31T15:02:48Z The question is answered in four Irish accents - Belfast, Cork, Dublin and Galway - and Jim Norton does them all brilliantly Comment by Peterchrisp on April 02, 2011 13:40 The speaker is Matt Gregory, the Ulsterman in FW - he thinks the answer to the question is Belfast, but he has to spell it 'Delfas' to fit the question (what Irish capital city has a six letter name beginning with D?). A beautiful evocation of the hard Belfast accent, and the city itself, with its shipbuilding industry - hammers banging rivets, ribs of a ship, and ships sliding down greased causeways, given a sexual twist. This is the city of Harland and Wolff, who built the Titanic. 2011-04-02T13:41:49Z Comment by Peterchrisp Johnny MacDougall, the Galway man, is always boasting about his sexual conquests. So while the other three are trying to woo Issy, Johnny is claiming that he’s already had her – here pictured as a fish he’s caught 2011-04-02T08:02:10Z Comment by Peterchrisp Answer c is from the Dubliner, Luke Tarpey. You’d think he’d get the answer right, since it’s his own city, but he reverses the first and last letters to make ‘Nublid’. The nasal accent of North Side Dubliners like Brendan Behan 2011-04-02T08:00:19Z Comment by Peterchrisp The fluttery singsong Cork accent of Marcus Lyons, who is boasting about his famous Cork persuasive eloquence (from the Blarney stone - 'soapstone of silvery speech') 2011-04-02T07:58:38Z
