I'm gonna pop out for now......it's errand time. I always kind of cringe today, because it only takes about 10 seconds for me to reach my fill of "bad, amateur, put-on" Irish accents.
But a friend is visiting here in Phoenix at the moment, and he is born in Ireland and then moved here to the U.S.. He was ordering a sandwich the other day from an immigrant Mexican waiter.....talk about a battle of accents, with each person looking at the other as if they were from the moon. My friend was ordering "a tearckeh kloob" ..... which of course, was a turkey club sandwich. He did describe his own Irish accent as "sounding like you are shoving a rusty shovel into gravel."