Is this the most Irish place outside Ireland? ‘We don’t think we have accents until other people tell us’

This Canadian province is home to communities whose accents, culture and music are so similar to Ireland’s southeast, it feels like they could be here on holiday – and not for several generations

Meet the Irish in Newfoundland: ‘We don’t think we have accents until other people tell us’

It’s 3.30pm and over two dozen people are hugging in a kitchen above Calvert Bay. Sean Sullivan, who’s been playing folksy tunes and telling stories in his house for two hours, is beaming.

“Is that the first time you’ve danced in a Newfoundland kitchen?”