Does anyone else get mistaken for being Irish?

Yep, regularly. Probably a combination of my weird hybrid accent and being a short ginger lass.

It is funny. 

I find if flattering, too- especially being told I look Irish (much of my ancestry is traced to Ireland).

I think my soft voice helps with being confused for Irish, too. :p

Yes -- but now I really am Irish! (Happy St. Patrick's Day, btw)

The Norn Irish accent is rather distinctive. I went to a seminar here and was trying to place the speaker's slight accent -- Scottish? Welsh? So, at the break, I asked her if it was Northern Ireland and she said she was from Belfast. As we were talking she got more and more into it and I was doing it too!

I work at a bank so I talk to a lot of people during the day, I have a pretty obvious Minnesotan accent, but people ask me if I'm Irish all the time.  I get that and Canadian (which I can understand).  I thought it was really strange because I don't think I sound remotely Irish at all.

I get this a lot! It probably helps that my BF is Northern Irish. I've even started saying "shar" for "shower" at times without noticing lol.

Some of the more posh sounding Irish accents (certainly not a thick Northern Irish accent!) sound a bit east-coast American.

Yes, there is a certain type of Irish accent that sounds very much like a type of accent I have heard from some native New Yorkers. I have met people who were Irish and I thought they were American at first.

I am also a native New Yorker but I have a different type of accent and sometimes get mistaken for Australian/New Zealander.  

People mistake me for being Irish all the time!! Many times people either ask if I'm Irish or ask where I'm from because they can't place my accent! I take it as a compliment.

I had a cabby mistake me for Irish, though I was in it with a friend of mine from Cumbria so I think the accents were sooo different that he had a hard time. I was quite amused, I think on a whole though- most people just ask me straight out, "Where are you from" It's saves face, kinda like asking somebody how far along they are if you don't even know for sure if they are pregnant! 

I think I look Irish (or Northern Irish) because I take after my mother's side: short, round heads, short noses, full heads of hair (even her aged uncles had a lot of hair). We also go gray/white early    Not the flaming red hair and freckles Irish but definitely a type.

Last night, at work (I work at a fine bar and restaurant), a man about 60-70 who was once married to an Irishwoman, told me there's nothing American about me. haha. He started off by asking whereabouts in Ireland I'm from. :p

Irish? No...but always get asked if I'm Canadian.

Irish? No...but always get asked if I'm Canadian.

I think that's "polite-speak" for "Are you American?" because Americans are often flattered to be taken for Canadian. But some Canadians can be a tad tetchy to be mistaken for American. 

I think that's "polite-speak" for "Are you American?" because Americans are often flattered to be taken for Canadian. But some Canadians can be a tad tetchy to be mistaken for American. 

Absolutely.  Or polite-speak for, "I'm not sure if you're American or Canadian, so I'll err on the side of caution."

I'm an American living in England with my husband, and everyone thinks I'm Irish! I'm not offended, but completely astounded. Not one person I've met at work and other places has thought that I was American until I informed them, just Irish. Even when I wasn't speaking at all, someone asked me if I was from Ireland. :3

Does any other American here get mistaken for being Irish?

I've gotten everything under the sun from Australian, Irish, Welsh and even South African. 

I see you're in Portsmouth, I'm in Gosport... Have you lived here long?

I get people always commenting that I've been getting a Northern Irish accent, both from the States and from here!  I guess it's because I've got a very musical ear and hear patterns as well as living here for two years.