Remarks

1) The vowel values which are associated with the now unfashionable Dublin 4 accent are not shared entirely by younger fashionable Dublin English speakers.

In particular the retraction of /a:/, and raising of the rhotacized version  , is avoided so that the earlier pronunciation of Dart as  is regarded as “uncool”.

2) The vowel transcribed as  is a variant which is somewhat more centralized than the corresponding  vowel found in supraregional varieties.

3) The realization  in the SQUARE lexical set can be interpreted as a deliberate reaction to the very open, unrounded realization of population Dublin English,  .

4) Popular Dublin English is weakly rhotic and early conservative forms of this variety are often entirely non-rhotic.

5) There is a complex distribution of low vowels in northern Irish English. Basically one can say that a front and raised vowel is found before velars and a retracted variant before labials and nasals, giving pronunciations like bag  and family  .