White Female Perth, Scotland 60s. Born in York, Moved to Renfrew at about 3 (near Glasgow), and has spent most of her life (with her husband) in Perth. speaking about borrowed tradition important We have to stay human beings. How much people of all ages love hearing stories by someone who is in front of them, instead of by video. Technology is great - but human contact is irreplaceable.  Isolation from human contact causes people to suffer. Power of oral tradition. The Scottish Travel who kept the oral tradition alive. Singing and stories including The Berry Fields of Blaire and The Good Man of Ballangigh.  - Immersion

nationalism, stories, songs, travellers, human contact, oral tradition, braveheart, singing, weavers, life, travel, family, good man of gallangigh, Berry fields of blaire

Man and a Woman in their 40s in a pub in Orkney. Talking about accents, and college, and opinions on pornography, and life and writing.

Orkney, pub, photo, college, picture, aberdeen, porno, movies, russian submarine, untrusting, wales, drunk, accent, written, jokes

White Male mid 20, Glasgow Scotland. About Glasgow, his upbringing, his family and kids, the changes he's gone through and the things in the world that he would like to see changed and homelessness and drugs, and one of his kids being particularly sensitive to things.

homlessness, drugs, footbal, strict, parents, kids, home, kidnapping, milk truck, baggage, life, what is important

White woman, Yorkshire England in her 70;s Talking about a member of her group who wrote a book about his days as a young farm worker in Yorshire England

History, farming, hired workers, Yorkshire, books

 

White Female Teen, from Ballymurn, satirizes the discrimination of the Skangers and working class slang. “Right” is pronounced “ree”. Thinks the working class deserves recognition and the upper class looks down on them. Contains slight profanity and mild drug references. 

Teen, Female, Ballymurn, North Dubliners, upper class, working class, River Liffey, Henry Street, Skangers, northside, Trackies, slagging, slang, springboard, profanity, class issues, henry street

Irish white male, 19 years old from Cork. He lives in the north side of Cork City and talks about the Lee river, which separates the north and south sides. Says there are different accents in Cork, particularly in the country, which have strong Irish accents. He works in a bar for two years. Started as a bouncer and worked his way up to full-time bartender. He dropped classes in order to do that and doesn't believe there would be a future in farming. He wants to have a normal 9-5 job where there is security.

Male, Irish, Ireland, Cork, Cork City, Lee river, Teddy, Blarney, farms, accents, bartender, bouncer, work, job, tax, social security, cheeky, nightclub, full-time

White Irish male, 29 years old. Originally from Tollymore, which is outside Newcastle, which is near the Forest Park in County Down, Northern Ireland. Says it's paradise, like heaven. He talks about the biggest problems in Ireland being the division of society, particularly in Northern Ireland. He believes differences in religion are the root of many problems. Plus, the biggest problems in the world are the destruction of the environment due to greed.

Male, Irish, Ireland, Belfast, Tollymore, Armagh, County Down, politics, religion, conflict, environment, greed

White male in Belfast Seventeen years old from Lurgan. He doesn't like the girls from Lurgan or the people from there in general and doesn't associate with them. He hangs in Armagh, about 20 minutes away. He talks about being afraid of Daddy Long Legs spiders since he was scared by one when he was one year old. He goes to St. Patrick's all-boys school, which he says is not bad but a bit draconian. Says he was going to leave but didn't and talks about the classes he is taking. He wants to go into filmmaking or something creative. He writes poetry and when he's pissed off he smokes in the garage. It's his happy place.

Male, 17, Irish, Ireland, Belfast, Lurgan, Armagh, St Patricks, high school, all boys school, filmmaker, poetry, smoking, writer

White female in Belfast in her 20s. She's from a very small, quiet village where she says the people are very nice. She says it's like a big, close family. They all go to the pubs on the weekend. She worked with Americans the previous week and they went to a bar and got very drunk and had a sing along. She had to cook them all breakfast the next morning and didn't like it. She and her mother are not close and call each other names.

Ireland, Irish, Female, 20s, Belfast, village, pubs, bars, respect, mother, mom, americans, pubs, sing-along, small-town

 

White Irish male in his 30s named Don, but nicknamed Buddy Love. He's from County Monaghan. He talks about getting kicked out of a cinema for throwing popcorn and how he is working on a film to make himself famous. He also discusses the girls of Monaghan, who he thinks are nice. Also, he talks about the problems in Ireland like the litter, and the border problem with Army men and equipment coming around. He also talks about the food he's been having that evening and the night before.

Ireland, Irish, Belfast, Monaghan, Acting, film, fame, girls, litter, border, food, burger, chicken, pizza, fish, chips, popcorn

 

 

This is a male in his 20's in Dublin. He's originally from Cork but has lived in Dublin on and off for 4 years. He speaks about politics in Ireland and his cynical views about the government and the disparity between rich and poor. He also discusses messy breakups and the toll they can take on an individual.

Dublin, Ireland, Cork, government, class, wealth, breakups

White Male, 47, from Glasgow, Scotland talks about govnernment and the problems of government and that streetwise people should be in government

politics, homosexuals, pedophiles, street people, streetwise people, all-boys school, common man

White Male, 47, from Glasgow, Scotland talks about travel and other accents and how hard it is to lose a Glasgow accent.

Glasgow, london, cockney, lutton, manchester, newcastle, leeds, bradford, scousers, glaswegian

White Female in her 40's from Glasgow Scotland Talks history with her English roommate, in particular talking about Culloden which is a big battle outside Inverness, and the impact on Scotish identity

history, scott, slaughter, culloden, english, inverness, battle, catholic, bonny prince charlie, wiliam of orange, highland clearances, crofts, sheep, canada, australia, new zealand.

White Female in her 40's from Scotland Talks about playing french horn and conducting music, which was always her dream.

French horn, conducting, sheffield, saint petersburg, conservatory, russia

White male in his 40s from Glagow, Scotland Professor talks about the development of the Scottish in different groups throughout Scotland and how he and his team have gone about collecting data for the study

data, speakers, communication, speech, historical, variety, community

White male in his 50's from Scotland, discussing linguistics, and intervocality and how it can change when some sounds are dropped.

english, irish, scottish, acronyms, surnames, hidden sounds, nasalized vowel, ulster, intervocality names Amen Dehorde Dublin

White male in his 50's from Scotland, discussing linguistics, discusses how language rearranges when some sounds are dropped.

english, irish, scottish, acronyms, surnames, hidden sounds, nasalized vowel, ulster, vellorized, partialized, baledine country

White male in his 50's from Scotland, discussing linguistics, in particular the dropping of the ng and nag sound inside of words in Irish and scottish

english, irish, scottish, acronyms, surnames, hidden sounds, nasalized vowel, ulster

White male about 47 from Glasgow Scotland discussing Government is a problem, issues with outing homosexuals, and that common streetwise people should be in government, not men from all boys schools

homosexuals, homosexuality, government, schools, boys