AmericaniZation of Irish children's accents, outside of Dublin too or just in Dublin?

[Charismam]

I was at an exhibition at my daughter's school, in South Dublin granted, but every single one of them who got up and spoke had an American accent, and one that went up at the end. One even referred to sneakers when she was talking about a trip that involved abseiling. It's a great school and I'm happy with it but I'm just wondering is this phenomenon happening in the wesht of Ireland or are you lot resisting better? Not one of them seemed capable of pronouncing a 't' properly. id was all wader boddle, liderally, todally...
One of the activities at the school is debating (debading) and the ones who are selected for being the most 'artikulid' do it too. There is no respite. It is so refreshing to hear a donegal accent or a cork accent that isn't a mangled hybrid of an accent. I realise older people have always believe young people can't speak, so I'm just observing with interest honestly. Languages and accents evolve, I know that.

My post came out sharper than i meant it to. On phone. I meant that I knew what Id heard, continue to hear.

Every 3 k has a different local accent. I think the "todally" accent has a wider scope.

I'm with you Charismam and with mathanxiety (as per). And I'm from the heartlands of South Dublin (as mathanxiety describes them). The accent has become far more americanised - I've especially noticed the use of Mom. That certainly wasn't around in my day.

My poor northsider mother, who couldn't cope with our Southside accents, made us call her Mum rather than Mam - that was the difference in our day.

And by the way, I've been called a West Brit my whole life. Doesn't bother me in the slightest. I've also lived in the UK for a long time, and regularly get asked if I'm American or Australian.

My English born children say y-oh-gurt though. That makes me happy. Although their friends do question why I "say it wrong."

Good grief. Is this the accent you're talking about? I have genuinely never heard anyone speak like this in real life. (Click on 'watch the film' on here. )

My (English) daughter went to an Irish Girl Guide camp last summer for a week, staying in a tent with a group of girls from Co.Cork. She came back with a slight Irish accent and changed speech inflection, which lasted for several days.

No americano that's an actual American accent 😂 nothing like the south Dublin twang!

I'm not that great with accents. You may have gathered that already.

I'm not so great with accents either
I especially struggle with accents outside of Dublin

This is not just a Dublin thing. We are up North and my daughter speaks like this. On a recent visit to the States she ramped it up even more and people were shocked to find out we were from Ireland after hearing her speak. Her cousins (girls) are all the same and they are from the depths of the country in Tyrone.

This is definitely not a South County Dublin tying, or a recent thing. We live in Galway. I have kids from ages 15 to 5. At least 10 years ago, I noticed my then 4 year old dd started developing a significant American accent, everything was a question? Everything she said went up at the end? Her slightly older brother did not speak like this. All of her friends locally spoke like this and it got worse when she started school. My kids go to a Gael Scoil, and you could hear them, girls in particular, speaking IRISH with an American intonation!

I made a huge big deal of it at the time, stopped her watching Nicolodean and corrected her whenever I heard her saying something American, but it took ages. I even raised it, years ago, at the schools AGM, that it was becoming a big problem and soon all our kids were going to start like generic Americans, but people weren't as concerned, it aware, as I was.

My brother, who lives in the USA, used to come home and say that she and her friends were more American than some of the kids he knew in LA.
She eventually outgrew it,but I still hear it everywhere. My 8 year old niece and all her buddies sound completely American, even when speaking IRISH. It drives me demented!