My home province in Canada is Newfoundland. This is a cool article for those of you who’ve never heard of us over here 🙂

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  9. Watch Republic of Doyle sometime, there’s an episode where the Irish relatives visit and the Newfoundlanders sound more Irish

  10. Spent a semester here with college nearly 20 years ago, I thought in St John’s the accent was typically Canadian for the most part but we drove out around the Avalon peninsula one weekend and it was like being back home (Waterford/Wexford).
    Lovely people and lovely place

  11. Worked in Canada with a new fie once, just for two days as I was taking their role before they moved and they were training me in.

    For all the cringe about “how Irish I am!” you can get off north Americans, she didn’t throw that stuff out once. Which made it all the more surprising when she started saying stuff liek “nah its grand”, “sure it’s great craic in here sometimes” and so on, often sounding *exactly* like someone from Mayo for parts of sentences.

    [Mental old accent so it is.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=banAMiFK3ak&pp=ygUZbmV3Zm91bmRsYW5kIGFjY2VudCB0aGljaw%3D%3D)

    [Compilation of them here.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZrJUp59OxU&pp=ygUZbmV3Zm91bmRsYW5kIGFjY2VudCB0aGljaw%3D%3D)

    Only met a few in Toronto but all were dead sound and acted closer to Irish people than they did Ontarians (speech, mannerisms, fuck-it-be-grand attitude, etc).

  13. Kinda surprised there aren’t direct flights between Dublin and St. John’s (the largest city in NFL). Would also make it the shortest TATL flight, clocking in at just a couple hours

  14. My father is from Conamara and my mothers parents are from the southern shore in Newfoundland and my DNA came back as 93% Irish

  18. Anyone who’s ever heard a Newfie accent already knew this without a study – they could easily pass as being from the parts of Kerry with the most unintelligible Irish accents this country has to offer 😂

  19. I lived there for a while,it was a really cool place and great people..we stayed in a house built by an Irish man in the 1800s..they have great music too very similar to irish trad and folk..the Navigators are deadly

  21. Tommy: Fuck, now do go mentioning home, now gives me the warm tinglys and all dat

    Teddy: Gives me the warmest fuzzies it do, all this talk of Newfoundland

    Tommy: Have a tear broadside of the eye for the effort

    Teddy: Park a tear rig handy

    Tommy: Fuck, teddy knows.

    Teddy: Best we goes on outta this conversation

  22. I’m from Newfoundland. If you guys would like to hear the extreme of our accents, you should look up a YouTube series called “newfoundlander vs”.
    He puts on a stronger accent, but funny enough so many of us have watched it because we all knows someone kinda like these idiots.

  23. The land itself other than snow in the Winter is very reminiscent of Ireland as well due being coastal and on the same latitude as us. The grey skies, long green windswept grass, rugged and rocky outcrops etc.

  25. Unsurprising. How you heard the way they talk? Unfortunately the younger generations accents are becoming less distinguishable from mainland Canadian.

  26. Can vouch for this as my mothers relatives live here and definitely are proud of their Irish background 😂

    ETA: my mom did one of those DNA test things years ago and her background was something super clear- like 80% or so Irish.

  27. I live in Québec and I plan on visiting your island soon. Any tips and recommendations would be greatly welcomed (seafood, cycling routes, swimming spots, etc.)

    GRMA! Also love the name as Gaeilge: Talamh an Éisc.

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