How can you learn a proper Irish accent that can fool anyone?

Go to Ireland for a year.

-soften your vowels
-pronounce your 'A's like 'ah'
-add some musical rhythm
-Put together syllables... like saying "how are you?" like "ho-ware-ya?"

Hope I helped!

You also need to learn phrases and the different mannerism of the way the speak as well, and not simply the accent. For instance, Irish people might say "I'm only just after getting home" where as someone else may say "I have just got home". Or "I had some deadly craic last night" instead of "I had some fun last night".

Record pieces of Irish accents, transcribe them then repeat at infinitum copying the accent.
It is quite easy to do if you follow the method.
In a way you are re-learning to pronounce the words.
There are 2000 main words that make up 90% of a language and they can be learned in a month.
I have them all in a book, if you don't have them you might be 2 months, still, think of the results.

You need an outside ear to lead you through it--start with a teaching tool, like what they have at www.accenthelp.com, and then work with a dialect coach you could locate at the www.vasta.org website. You need to develop your ear to hear the differences, and then you have to recreate those differences... practice, practice, practice...

I Am Irish
northern Irish
n I talk lak 1 !
So wa ever ya need t no ask ma =]
wer r u from ?

An accent is the sum total of the way you pronounce the individual sounds of a language PLUS the tonal differences. For instance, I know five different ways to pronounce the letter R (Midwest American, English end-of-word, German, Spanish single trill, Spanish double trill). But you could pronounce every sound the Irish make perfectly and if you didn't make your voice rise and fall in the places where they do, you won't have their accent. Consider the sentence "You want fries with that?" The last three words are spoken at a higher pitch than the first two. In Ukrainian, probably only the last word would be spoken at a higher pitch. ("Davaty z nym kartoplya free?")

It also requires talent. Henry Kissinger is certainly a brilliant man, but brilliance alone couldn't overcome his thick accent. You might never be able to fool anyone, let alone everyone. The younger you start, the likelier you are to be able to learn a language without an accent.

fanxs lol that really helps lol!!!!!

it might sound highly stupid lool
but i learn better reading sentances written out how it would sound... than i do when i listen and try to imitate someone?

does that even make sense to anyone?
because i know i do it & learn better that way... i just dont know why =\ lol