Down in the Outer Banks of North Carolina lies Ocracoke Island, where the accent sounds like it’s from another time and another continent.
In this special U.S.-Irish history-sode, we explore how Irish and Scottish settlers helped shape the unique Ocracoke Brogue, and how families like yours may have carried old-world language into a new coastal life.
Sources Used:
North Carolina Language and Life Project (NCLLP)
"Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks" by Walt Wolfram & Jeffrey Reaser
National Park Service: Ocracoke History
Hyde County Historical Records
RootsIreland.ie and Colonial Land Records
Irish & Scottish Immigration Patterns to the American South (University of North Carolina Archives)
