South-West Irish English
Among speakers in the South-West alone (famously Cork, Kerry, or Limerick), the vowel of DRESS raises to [ɪ] when before /n/ or /m/ (a pin–pen merger)[1] and sentences may show a unique intonation pattern.
[3] Among older speakers, /s/ and /z/ may respectively be pronounced as /ʃ/ and /ʒ/ before a consonant and so fist sounds like fished, castle like cashle, and arrest like arresht.
An example is the backing, slight lowering, and perhaps rounding of MOUTH towards [[ɐʊ~ʌʊ~ɔʊ]], so that, to a Dublin or General American speaker, about nears the sound of a boat.
Those varieties are all rhotic, like most other Irish accents, but the /r/ sound is specifically a velarised alveolar approximant: [ɹˠ].
Furthermore, for all of those varieties, PRICE and CHOICE may also lack a rounded quality, the lexical set START is very fronted ([æːɹ]), the /h/ may be dropped before /j/ (hue pronounced like you), a distinction remains between tern and turn,[7] and
