**ANNOUNCEMENT**

Sadly due to a bereavement, we have to postpone this week’s Banter, which was due to take place at MVP on Wednesday.

We have rescheduled this for Wednesday January 27 at MVP at 6.30pm with the same panelists - Sophie Gorman,
Jenny Kelly and Aoife Dooley - joining Jim Carroll to talk about the evolution of the Dublin accent, slang and language.

Your current ticket is valid for the new date but if you need to get a refund because the date doesn’t suit you, please contact erica@bodytonicmusic.com for details.

Thanks for supporting Banter and we hope to see you at one of our events soon. We’ll be in Dingle, Co Kerry with Other Voices next weekend and our Review of the Year Banter will go ahead as planned on Wednesday December 9th.

All the best

Jim, Eoin, Erica and all the Banter team

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feat: Jenny Keogh (photographer, film-maker and director of Story Bud?), Aoife Dooley (Dublin Hun creator and illustrator) and Sophie Gorman (journalist and critic)

Just what does Dublin sound sound like? In 2015, there’s a wide range of accents classifiable as the Dublin accent depending on which part of the city or county you happen to be in. We know the ones which are the stuff of caricature and mimic but there’s more to this than just Ross O’Carroll Kelly and Love/Hate.

Over the years, the Dublin accent - as well as the city’s slang, language and lexicon - has changed and morphed numerous times. Be it on the streets, the stage or the screen, what passes for what we hear around us in the the city in 2015 is a lot different to what it was 20 years ago or even in the rare aul’ times.

For this Banter, we’re looking at how these changes happened, the influences on accents, the unique confluence of events which have made Dublin accents turn out the way they have, the effect of various geographical divides on the dialect and just what the city might sound like a few years from now.