I remember SM2 once asked me if I had a brogue, and I didn't respond because I didn't actually realise that that's what you call it.
I don't have a very good brogue. My accent is quite mild.
In Irish, brogue (bróg) means shoe.
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller