Welcome to this site which features videos of well-known speeches alongside transcripts of the speeches. The site is for people who:
- enjoy listening to speeches
- want inspiration or ideas
- learn English and want to see exact transcripts
- want to know more about our recent history,
- are addicted to Youtube
- want an easy place to find out if someone really said something!
Let’s start!
- Aung San Suu Kyi: Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, June 2012
- Tony Blair: Labour Party Conference, 2006
- Colin Firth: Oscar acceptance speech, Best Actor 2011
- Orson Welles: The Third Man (1949): The Cuckoo Clock Speech
- Barack Obama: Eulogy at the Funeral of Clementa Pinckney, Charleston, June 2015
- King George VI: September 3, 1939 (‘The King’s Speech’)
- Barack Obama: The Economy. Osawatomie, Kansas: December 2011
- Arthur Hugh Clough (poet): ‘Say not the struggle naught availeth’
- Michael D. Higgins: Inauguration Speech
- Enda Kenny: Response to Cloyne Report, 2011