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)