Kyadagum_Dulgadee t1_iuhg0yt wrote
Reply to comment by JensonInterceptor in Emilia Clarke to Play Oscar Wilde’s Wife and Irish Author, Constance Lloyd, in Sophie Hyde’s ‘The Ideal Wife’ by MarvelsGrantMan136
I don't remember anyone having those concerns about Stephen Fry playing Oscar.
DieFichte t1_iuimghm wrote
I wouldn't even have concerns if Stephen Fry plays Wonder Woman.
Dentipres t1_iuieyss wrote
I think both Constance Lloyd and Oscar Wilde would have had what we now consider an educated English accent.
Porrick t1_iuijs0u wrote
You can say "upper-crusty toff", we don't take it personally. The derogatory term the Irish use for us is "West-Brit".
I went to a fancy boarding school in Ireland where we learned Latin instead of Irish, and where children were mocked for having an Irish accent. Which almost none of us did, despite almost all being Irish. Well - Anglo-Irish. My own family is technically indigenous but Protestant, but we're indistinguishable from the rest of the Anglo-Irish crowd anyway so it's a bit disingenuous to claim I'm not one of them.
Anyway, my point is there's a tiny minority class of Irish aristo gobshites who speak RP and live in big fancy houses in the country. Wilde would very likely have sounded like one of us.
godisanelectricolive t1_iujmgws wrote
Wilde said his Irish accent was the first thing he forgot once he got to Oxford when he was 20. He might have once had some kind of educated Dublin accent, back when he was attending Trinity.
His mother Jane Elgee was an Irish nationalist despite being Anglo-Irish. She was very in Irish folklore and was part of the Young Ireland movement. She wrote under the name Speranza and once called for an Irish armed rebellion.
Kyadagum_Dulgadee t1_iuiggfm wrote
I would say. Have you ever heard really old Irish radio broadcasts? They sound English.
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