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Munster Irish has some noticeable differences in morphology and the use of grammatical particles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munster_Irish


The thing is that there's not really any Munster Gaeltachts outside of Corca Dhuibhne in 2025. The only time you'll hear anything close to the differentiated Munster Irish outside of a Leaving Cert textbook is someone like Jack O'Connor giving commentary on TG4 after a match.

I'd also disagree with a lot of the sentence structure formation and 'grammar' espoused as fact on that Wiki page. You'd be marked down on any Irish Higher Level Paper 2 marking scheme that I'm aware of - e.g.

https://www.examinations.ie/archive/markingschemes/2019/LC00...

More to the point, I'd emphasise the far larger impact of Gaeilge on the dialect of Hiberno-English spoken down there - e.g. 'What mood are you in', 'I've the hunger of the world on me', 'I'm after having a fierce supper there' etc...




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