Audiobook read in a Northern Ireland accent

[HomesickGirl]

I'm desperately homesick at the moment - planning to move home but can't until next summer 😭.

I found listening to Close to Home by Michael Magee, read by Conor MacNeill really helpful! It's also a really good book.

Can anyone recommend any other books where the narrator has an NI accent?
I've searched online, but everything suggested is read in an Irish accent, not NI.
TIA

Milkman by Anna Burns.

Not an audio book but I've just rewatched Derry Girls and I find it so comforting and heart warming.

Thank you - actually I have listened to Trespasses by Louise Kennedy with the same narrator so will listen to this one next.

Yes me too - probably due a re-watch!
I always cry at the last episode and my English DC just don't get it 🤦🏻‍♀️

Adrian McGinty, if you like a good crime thriller. I love the Sean Duffy novels.

Who Took Eden Mulligan is a good book, very gripping. I read it but the audio version would be good too. The narrator, Melanie McHugh, has a soft NI accent.

Colin Morgan narrates quite a few books, but they are mostly fantasy which isn't my thing. I listened to this one https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Worldship-Humility-Audiobook/B07MM2PLKV?qid=1723807349&sr=1-7&ref_pageloadid=N82vmrqWZq7aK2v8&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_7&pf_rd_p=c6e316b8-14da-418d-8f91-b3cad83c5183&pf_rd_r=P3H4QPA7AAHM8W27QN2R&pageLoadId=mZjOL7QLOkuHWaVC&creativeId=41e85e98-10b8-40e2-907d-6b663f04a42d which is sci-fi and was reasonably good (it had a few laws of physics issues that put me off a bit).

Thanks so much everyone - really appreciate your help. I've got loads of new books on my wishlist 🙂

Can I also re-recommend Milkman. It’s a fantastic book.

Omg @HomesickGirl that last episode of Derry Girks was fantastic. I was emotional too

I too loved the last episode of Derry Girls.

I too was going to recommend Milkman as an audio book.
I didn't like the book but the narrator would be Northern Irish.

@HomesickGirl I love that last episode of Derry Girls. It's up there with the last episode of Blackadder for me. So poignant.

Here's a little bit of Jimmy Nesbitt for you.

’These Days’ by Lucy Caldwell. Set in WW2 in Belfast. Heard it as a Book of the Week on R4 not long ago - beautifully read and poignant weaving of family stories. I see it’s on Audible now.

Don't know if it's already been recommended but I'm listening to Big Girl, Small Town on BBC Sounds read by Michelle Gullen.

And being on a BBC Sounds it has the bonus of being free

Thank you for this - as ex NI who grew up in NI in the 80s & 90s loved this series . Binged on them all over the last couple of weeks.

i listen to audiobooks at 1.5 speed , so with the NI accent DH has asked a number of times how on earth I understand what is being said.

i listen to audiobooks at 1.5 speed , so with the NI accent DH has asked a number of times how on earth I understand what is being said.

I work with someone from Limavady and I think she already talks at 1.5 speed. I'm with your DH

I've recently also listed to Factory Girls on BBC Sounds and loved that one too probably because I'm a similar age to the protagonist.

That's class @toooldforbrat 😁

Definitely 'The Twelfth Day of July'. It used to be on Audible - I've no idea why they removed it! CD version:

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It's brilliant! Technically an older kids/teens book, but there's no reason you wouldn't enjoy it as an adult. It's one I've listened to several times now. The reader's voice is yummy.

I read that whole series of Joan Lingard books when I was a teenager. Romeo and Juliet for the 1980s (they were written in the 1970s, but I read them as a teenager in the 80s). It may or may not have lead to me falling head over heels for a Belfast boy, although long distance didn't work well for us and it faded out, I still remember him fondly. Now that I think about it, he was a dark-haired Catholic and I was a (not entirely natural) blonde-haired RoI Protestant, it wasn't a particularly Romeo and Juliet equivalent though as nobody at all objected to us being together, or even had much of an opinion.