Go on a week-long drinking binge consuming nothing but Guinness and stout, and after that you will have a perfect reference point for the Irish, how they talk, and they're outlook on life...
I KEED, I KEED!
Heh. Thanks for the advice, Fox. I tried that once in college, but had to stop when I woke up next to a rugby player. 
Now that I'm married, I'm afraid I've only got the budget - and the tastebuds - for Kentucky bourbon.
Wow... you actually have coherent memories of college??
...wow...
I was an engineering major. We only got to party 4 days a week, unlike most of the liberal arts crowd. So yeah...there's a few clear memories of the five years I was there. They're even mostly good ones. 
Well that explains it... my BA in Acting is as liberal as you can get!
'Tis true, sir. I've read some of your writing, and if you're acting is anywhere near as good as the writing, I'm surprised you still find the time to write and play CoH.
I've done a little acting myself, though somehow all of my characters end up having the same voice. Boo Radley, Pirate, Old Man...all the same. I never have figured out how to get into a character voice. Maybe that's why I'm having trouble hearing a brogue in my head and translating it to text in-game.
Well one of my character's speaks with a brogue... especially in the beginning of Chapter 3, and a lot of Chapter 4... check it out if you want (in sig)
And thank you for the compliment. The reason I don't write more is because I'm too busy playing the game! (Or trying to stay awake at work BECAUSE I've been playing the game!)
The real trick is to make it look like an accent, but NOT make the text completely foreign to the eye. You have to remember people are reading it, so you can't ALWAYS spell it just like it would sound.
I find the best way to do it, is say the sentence out loud as you type, in fix it so that, if someone didn't know an Irish accent, they would SOUND like that if they read the sentence, sounding out the spelling.
Remember, as long as people see you speaking with things like "me" instead of my and perhaps "moight" and "Foight" instead of might and fight, and your name is Blarney Stone, they'll get the character. 
As someone who wrote for an Irish character on the old boards since late 2001, I would say Sly has good advice there Hedayo. The "me" instead of "my" is one of the best. Maybe throw in "boyo" instead of boy, man, ect, and of course "lass" ("lassie" is more Scottish).
My character is more a mix of Irish and British, so not the best to look for, but if you look in the old thread that Rook and I did that I am reposting here (Rook vs Thevshi: Ghosts of the Past), you will find Rook had some good lines for his character in more "true" Irish (and he happened to be a former IRA opperative as well)
Good luck with developing your character, might see you on Virtue sometime soon.
Thev
Fox - I've got plans to go through your 'Taming' story, so I'll keep my eye out for the character you're talking about.
Hollow - Thanks for the advice. I'll check out your thread. Didn't mean to steal the IRA operative origin, though. I've also picked up terms like 'jakers' instead of 'yikes' or 'wow'. I found a few terms on a site that was linked to an educational television show, of all things. I've been using 'buggers' and 'mates' a bit, too, and I'm not sure those aren't more British than Irish.
If they'd only do these blasted forums in better colors, I could spend more time reading them. As it is, this white on blue kills my eyes. I used to have the same problem with the white-on-black in the SWG forums.
Rook made his character a long, long time ago (around October 2001 I believe), so I wouldn't worry about "stealing" the IRA opperative idea.
But "bugger" (and "bugger me") is good. And I think "mate" is okay (though might be more Australian than Irish. *shrugs*)
Thev
"Taint" is good instead of ain't...
hah... All I can think of is that Bungs Bunny cartoon with the police officer...
"Aye, yah moight rabbit, yah moight..."
Hedayo, if you want a good feel for the Irish accent, and you have some money to spend, buy a series of language tapes called "Irish on Your Own", available on Amazon. It's a series of lessons on how to speak the Irish language (sometimes in english called Gaelic), specifically the dialect from the Ulster region.
The tape series starts out very slow, and the people teaching the lessons speak english with a strong Irish accent. But if you want a good feel for where the accent comes from, actually hearing them speak Irish helps a lot.
There are also free Irish language resources on the web, if you Google for them.
A couple bits of slang Irish -
póg mo thón = kiss my butt
bairn = baby
mooching = well ... sure you know this one, but it's origin is irish
gobdaw = idiot (he's a right gobdaw)
slaine = lit- "health", used to mean cheers! or goodbye
craic = fun (we had great craic the other night)
gob = mouth (she never shuts her gob)
failte = welcome
mac = son
And well, if you want more maybe check out some Pogues or Shane MacGowan records. That langauge set Irish on Your Own is great, though.
--Tipsy McStagger
Ah Tipsy... they're always after your lucky charms...
Thanks, Tipsy. Even more ammunition for whenever I can get back into game as BlarneyStone. Last night, though, was spent creating the Kentucky Colt and levelling him up to 5. He was supposed to be the Kentucky Horseman or the Bluegrass Bomber...blasted small name box!
Pick a county as well. The accents vary greatly.
Cork itself for example can sound anything like cook to kirk depending on where you are on that tiny island.
Best bet is just have a few catch phrases or word replacements rather then get too complex.
I was just curious if anyone could point me in the direction of some internet resources for glossary, context, and or punctuation when using an Irish brogue in a character. Typically, I play your average white-bread, southern or midwestern type because it's pretty similar to who I am and i don't have to think too hard for the dialogue.
I created BlarneyStone, a Natural Blaster on Virtue. I'm not sure I'm happy with his background yet - an anti-hero IRA operative sent to scout out and clean up Paragon City to make room for the organization's own illegal fundraising operations - but I'm having a lot of fun with his abilities. The trouble is that I really don't have enough knowledge of the Irish, so that when I speak, I think I'm using British phrases and punctuation moreso than Irish.
I'd appreciate any help you can offer, and if you see BlarneyStone on the streets, you're welcome to say hello!