Laura Kennedy: Australians I’ve interacted have encountered my accent with a sort of gentle disinterest
Laura Kennedy: 'I was then in my mid-20s and unprepared for the reception my accent would generate in a rural English environment.' Photograph: Aidan Crawley
I was then in my mid-20s and unprepared for the reception my accent would generate in a rural English environment. My accent, I should add, is notions in the extreme. You’d call it Irish RP. It’s hardly my fault – an Irish Times reader once heard me on RTÉ and wrote to me that I’m “clearly only one of those fruity Anglo journos up in Dublin like the rest”, so it doesn’t always serve me well.‘My boyfriend said he’d like a threesome.
In the local village, people would pick up on the accent and make mangled attempts to fire it back at me in a fluctuating cadence they considered funny, but which, ultimately, accumulated into numerous erosive interactions each week. I’d think of the reader letter and consider that truly one person’s “notions” is another’s “medieval-era peasant”.
I was surprised to discover that – so far, and it has only been a few weeks – it is easier to be Irish in Australia than it is an hour’s flight away in Britain. I carry less awareness of my Irishness here.As though our immediate neighbours should probably have more connection and good will toward us than a people in another hemisphere.
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