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The cousin to Fake Brit and Fake American (and adequately, Fake Scot) and a subtrope of Fake Nationality. Irish characters are some of the most frequently depicted foreigners in British and American media but they often tend to be played by non-Irish actors with, ahem, "variable" success when it comes to accents, or use the "wrong" Irish accent. For instance Northern Irish accents are quite distinct from southern Irish accents. Ireland is quite unique as a country in that there can be startling differences in accents within counties; a north Dublin accent for instance is like night and day to a southern one from only an hour's drive away. Another reason why non-Irish actors are used is the desire for name recognition. Even if an appropriate-age largely unknown Irish actor is available the film makers will often be tempted to go for someone with more international appeal. For some reason this seems to be particularly the case with female actors; even a film with mostly Irish actors, like Intermission or About Adam or the recent Perrier's Bounty will still fill its female roles with British or American actors. This may be why there are quite a few famous Irish male actors in Hollywood but vanishingly few famous Irish female actors: their chances of a breakthrough role are that much smaller (with the notable exception of Saoirse Ronan). See also this article for theories on why there are so few name female Irish actors. This can also overlap with Britain is Only London - as a lot of casting tends to be based there, especially if it's a UK-backed production - and there's an inherent bias to favoring London actors, while almost shutting out Irish actors completely (as noted on the Fake Brit page, most Irish actors who get fame will likely play more Brits or Americans in the long run). In recent years, this has started drawing comparisons to whitewashing. For some reason Scottish actors seem to be disproportionately likely to play Irish characters, which is unlikely to help those who already can't tell the two countries apart. Also, a strong Ulster or Southern Irish accent done by a Scottish person would confuse things even further (such as the Glaswegian actor of Irish descent, David O'Hara in The Departed or Dundonian Brian Cox in 25th Hour). As you might expect, Fake Irish characters often slip into Oireland territory. American, British, Canadian, or Australian actors of Irish descent may be able to avoid the label if they properly learn the accent from any Irish relatives they may have. But if they screw up the accent, expect to hear about it. |
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Penny Dreadful: English actress Billie Piper portrays Irish immigrant Brona Croft/Lily Frankenstein. | |
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2010 gangster flick Perrier's Bounty has Jim Broadbent as Cillian Murphy's father. In the same film Jodie Whittaker is an odd semi-example: she keeps her native accent so (presumably) her character is English, but since her nationality is never addressed and since nothing about the character is specifically English it seems likely the role was originally written as Irish but Whittaker couldn't manage an Irish accent. | |
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Doctor at Large: O'Malley was played by John Chandos, a Scottish actor. | |
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The Magdalene Sisters: Geraldine McEwan did have Irish grandparents on both sides, but she was English born, and thus fakes a passable attempt at an Irish accent as Sister Bridget. Anne Marie Duff is in a similar boat to the above; Irish ancestry but English born, and thus putting on an accent. The Scottish director Peter Mullan has a small role as Una's father, putting on a decent Dublin accent. |
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In a weird semi-example Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows saw Rhys Ifans (who is proudly Welsh) play Xenophilius Lovegood with a noticeable Irish accent to fit in better with his on-screen daughter Luna Lovegood (who is played by Irish actress Evanna Lynch). | |
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The film adaptation of Dancing at Lughnasa features a family of five Irish sisters, and only one of them played by an Irish actor. Meryl Streep does quite a good job of adopting the Donegal accent, as do the rest of the female English actors. Only Kathy Burke's accent slips from scene to scene. | |
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Most of the flashback scenes in Angel contain some dreadful examples of Oireland, including a delightful buxom wench played by American Christina Hendricks who sounds - well - not Irish. playing Samuel. | |
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The film Rory O'Shea Was Here (European title Inside I'm Dancing) features James McAvoy, Romola Garai and Stephen Robertson all playing Irish characters, though Robertson is a marginal case as his character has cerebral palsy. Garai in particular nails the upper class Dublin (or 'D4' as it's nicknamed) dialect. | |
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Both parents in In America are played by English actors (Paddy Considine and Samantha Morton), though the daughters are played by real-life Irish sisters (Emma and Sarah Bolger). | |
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Disney's The Luck of the Irish is full of these. Henry Gibson, Marita Geraghty, and Timothy Omundson, just to name three. All Americans (although Omundson is part-Irish). | |
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All About E: Australian Brett Rogers plays Irishman Matt O'Halloran. | |
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The Belfast-based movie Cherrybomb (2009) falls prey to this. Although pretty much all the supporting cast members were genuinely Irish, the male lead (Rupert Grint) was English and his love interest (Kimberly Nixon) was Welsh, and yet they were required to put on strong Irish accents for their roles. | |
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None of the characters who appeared in the brief 'Peter in Ireland arc' in Heroes were portrayed by Irish actors (and it shows), though one was an Irish-American, and another was Dominic Keating, who is half Irish, although he was raised in England. Two seasons later we had American Robert Knepper | |
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Coppers End: Paddy from "The Drunken Irishman" was played by the British Mark Eden. | |
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The Last Leprechaun: Finn the leprechaun is played by English actor Mick Walter. | |
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Cait of Fallout 4 is supposedly Irish, but is voiced by a Scottish VA. | |
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The Great White Hype has an In-Universe case. Despite having an extremely Irish name, Terry Conklin is not Irish at all. The boxing promoter who lured Conklin back into the ring in hopes of generating a big payday from racist white audiences tuning in to see a white fighter take on the black undefeated heavyweight champion, however, claims that Conklin is Irish-American so he has an easy way to hype the fight. It also lets said promoter be practically open about the racial motivations for the fight even while denying that race is a factor. | |
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St. Elsewhere: American Eric Stoltz as Eddie Carson in "Under Pressure", "Entrapment" and "All About Eve". American Edward Herrmann as Father Joseph McCabe in "Time Heals, Part 1", "Time Heals, Part 2" and "Where There's Hope, There's Crosby". American Fredd Wayne as Pat McGroyn in "Up and Down". |
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Shay Cormac in Assassin's Creed Rogue is voiced by a Canadian and his accent is absolutely horrible to say the least. | |
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In The Wild Wild West two episodes - "The Night of the Double-Edged Knife" and "The Night of the Ready-Made Corpse" - feature some actionably bad Irish accents, particularly Elisha Cook in the former and Karen Sharpe hamming it up in the latter ("Terrible! TERRIBLE!" indeed). On the other hand, "The Night of the Firebrand" has Pernell Roberts not only playing a convincing Irishman but also playing a convincing Irishman pretending to be American! | |
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Of all the Irish characters in Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks only the adult version of Piggley is voiced by an Irish actor (Peadar Lamb). The others are all voiced by Americans, except Molly and Dannan O'Mallard who are voiced by Canadian Tara Strong. | |
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Aaron features Bobby Calloway playing the Irish Chris. He has Irish parents but was born in England and has an English accent. He uses his real voice, with the Hand Wave that Chris's accent faded from years of living in England. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1985): The entire cast of "The Little People of Killany Woods". American Cork Hubbert as the Leprechaun Shawn McGool in "The Leprechaun-Artist". Canadian Bunty Webb as Maggie Dugan in "The Crossing". |
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The B movie Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus has one character whose accent is supposed to be either Scottish or Irish, and is positively painful to listen to, it fails so badly. | |
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In the Name of the Father had English actors Daniel Day-Lewis, Mark Sheppard and Pete Postlethwaite play Irish characters. However Day-Lewis has some Irish ancestry, possesses Irish citizenship and lives there, while Sheppard also has some Irish heritage - though it should be noted they play Northern Irish characters. All of them put on good accents too. It's averted with most Irish characters played by wholly Irish actors anyway. | |
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Kathy Burke again plays an Irish character in Pan - this one with a more stereotypical Oireland accent. | |
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No Kidding: While Tandy is played by an Irishman (Noel Purcell), his grandson Will isn't and is instead played by the British Brian Rawlinson. | |
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Jimmy O'Phelan on Sons of Anarchy; his accent's pretty painful as played by American Titus Welliver. In fact, the entire Belfast sequence was painful. Seems they couldn't combine filming on location with hiring actual Irish actors, with the exception of Paula Malcomson. Though maybe choosing not to surround terrible accents with genuine ones was a wise decision. | |
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The 2020 adaptation of Normal People featured North London native Daisy Edgar Jones as the female lead. She does have a Northern Irish mother, but the dialect she goes for is that of Sligo, which is quite different. She was praised for her authenticity, many not even realising she was English in the first place. | |
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Alan Hale, Sr., father of "The Skipper" and friend of Errol Flynn (see under Real Life below) played a ton of Irish characters in the '30s and '40s such as the Earl of Tyrone (The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex), Gallagher (Three Cheers for the Irish), Francis Patrick Murphy (Captains of the Clouds), Pat Corbett (Gentleman Jim), "Boats" O'Hara (Action in the North Atlantic), "Big Mike" Harrigan (God is My Co-Pilot), etc. | |
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Brooklyn has Julie Walters playing the Irish landlady Mrs Keogh. Walters has Irish ancestry but speaks in a Liverpool accent naturally. Jim Broadbent also plays an Irish priest, though his accent seems to be a bit all over the place to imply it has simply faded from his many years in New York. Elsewhere averted with the majority of Irish characters played by Irish actors. It also marks the first major role where Saoirse Ronan and Domhnall Gleeson play Irish characters. Although Saoirse speaks with a Dublin accent naturally and adopts a more rural accent as her character Eilish is an Enniscorthy native. | |
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The Quiet Man mostly averts this, as it was filmed in Ireland and featured a majority of Irish actors (including Maureen O'Hara). But Ward Bond (American) and Victor McLalgen (English) as Father Peter and Red Will respectively. Mildred Natwick (American) was also quite convincing as the Widow Tillane. John Wayne also plays an Irish-born American - though of course his character's accent has faded from years in America. McLaglen played quite a few of these, and being a close friend of famously Irish-American director John Ford, was often mistakenly thought to be actually Irish in Real Life. |
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In General Hospital, American actor Erin Chambers plays Galway native Siobhan McKenna...with an extremely thick accent that sounds as fake as it is. | |
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The Last Kingdom: Scottish actor Mark Rowley puts on an Irish accent to play the Irish character Finan. | |
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In Jackie, the Israeli-American Natalie Portman plays First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, who was historically half-Irish and a practicing Catholic like her husband. | |
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Roar: a pre-fame Heath Ledger played a young Irish warrior prince. | |
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My Name Is Emily has a quasi-example. Arden, played by English actor George Webster, has an Irish and English parent but keeps his own accent. The character was written to be Irish and just changed to accommodate Webster. | |
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In The Fighting Prince of Donegal, none of the main leads in Irish roles originated from Ireland, including its English leading man Peter McEnery. | |
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Daredevil gives us Charlie Cox as Irish-American Matt Murdock and Elden Henson as Irish-American Foggy Nelson. With Foggy, they make this more convincing in season 3 by the casting of native Irish actor Peter Halpin as Foggy's brother Theo. | |
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Disney's Darby O'Gill and the Little People had Sean Connery (Scottish), Janet Munro (English) and Estelle Winwood (English) playing Irish characters. | |
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Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle. Good gravy. We even get a sub-plot where there's a secret message coded in Ogham. And the "Irish" characters can't even pronounce "Ogham" properly! (it's "oh-am" in case you're wondering) | |
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Stonehearst Asylum: The English actor David Thewlis plays an Irishman, Mickey Finn. | |
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Peaky Blinders takes place in Birmingham, but there are two Irish characters in the cast. New Zealander Sam Neill comes by his Ulster accent honestly - it's based upon his own father's County Tyrone accent - but Englishwoman Annabelle Wallis has to also affect a Northern Irish accent. It's pretty good; her costar Cillian Murphy praised the work she did. | |
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Conversations with Friends: Unlike the Normal People adaptation in which Daisy Edgar-Jones was the only non-Irish cast member (and even so, her mum is from the North), Alison Oliver is the only Irish actor out of the main four. | |
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Father Ted - of all shows - used this at least once with native Glaswegian Clare Grogan playing Niamh Connolly, an Irish radical feminist pop singer. | |
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In The Boondock Saints, American Norman Reedus plays one of two Irish twin brothers. Irish-American Sean Patrick Flanery plays the other. In the second movie they seem to be doing the accent intentionally badly. | |
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Interestingly, BioShock accomplishes this in-story. The very Irish revolutionary "Atlas" is actually a monstrously amoral New Jersey businessman putting on an accent, but the character is voiced by Irishman Karl Hanover, and his true identity is voiced by a different actor. | |
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Leprechaun: In the first six movies, Lubdan is played by English actor Warwick Davis. In Leprechaun Returns, he's played by Canadian actor Linden Porco. | |
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The Town features British actor Pete Postlethwaite as a Boston Irish gangster Ferdie. | |
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Ryan's Daughter had English, Australian and American leads surrounded by Irish extras. In fact this particular film might push the trope into Unfortunate Implications territory: the sympathetic 'Irish' characters are all played by foreign actors while the less sympathetic/outright villainous villagers are portrayed by natives. | |
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Far and Away gave us an 'Irish' accented Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. This film in particular is a sore spot for many Irish people, given how legendarily bad the former's accent is. Some of it was actually filmed there, ironically enough. | |
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The three Irish characters in The Thorn Birds (Ralph, Paddy, Mary) are played by Americans and Brits. Adding insult to injury, as is par for the course with this trope, only one of them even bothers to try sounding like an Irishman, and he does it badly. | |
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American Gods: Canadian Pablo Schreiber plays Irish leprechaun Mad Sweeney, and Australian Emily Browning plays Irishwoman Essie McGowan. | |
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The Classic Doctor Who serial "The Wheel in Space" took place on a space station featuring a multinational crew, nearly all of whom were played by British actors adopting fake accents. One such crew member was the Irish Sean Flannigan, played by English actor James Mellor. | |
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Boardwalk Empire: Scottish actor Kelly Macdonald plays Irish immigrant Margaret Schroder with quite a convincing accent for a character from early 20th century Kerry. The IRA fighter Owen Sleater is played by the English Charlie Cox. The Sinn Féin politician John McGarrigle is played by the American Ted Rooney. Margaret's brother, Eamonn is played by the Scottish Tony Curran. Irish-American Nucky Thompson is played by Italian-American Steve Buscemi, who is of half Irish descent. In-Universe case with Mickey Doyle. He's a Pole, with the real name Mieczyslaw Kuzik, posing as an Irishman. |
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Henry of No More Heroes fame is played by Quinton Flynn. Quite fitting, considering the voice actor of Henry's rival and twin brother Travis Touchdown pulls a Fake American accent. | |
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Raw was made and set in Ireland, and featured other nationalities but still... Joe Doyle (English) fakes an Irish accent as Richard. Amy Manson (Scottish) as Zoe, though where she's from is never actually stated. |
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Knots Landing has an in-universe example. Although it was hinted in several episodes soon after his introduction in Season Nine that Johnny Rourke wasn't really Irish, this was not confirmed until the Season Ten episode "Deserted". When Johnny, Michael, Paige and several Mexicans are trapped in a deserted truck in rapidly increasing temperatures, Michael notices that Johnny has dropped his (painfully fake) Irish accent. Johnny replies that he is too tired to make the effort. He explains that he was about to commit a robbery in Belfast when he happened across an IRA cell. He adopted an Irish accent, told them that he was a nationalist and immediately started working for them, an explanation which is almost as unconvincing as his accent. He met Paige in Dublin some time after that. | |
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Sing Street features a mostly Irish cast; the exception is American-born British actor Lucy Boynton as Raphina. | |
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In Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, the Irish demi-goddess Morrigan is played by the Canadian Tamara Gorski (and no, she doesn't have an ounce of Irish blood in her, she's of Ukrainian descent). Then again, no character in that show is played by an actor of the same nationality (e.g. the lead is a Greek with a Roman name played by an American). | |
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Sean Devlin, the Irish protagonist of The Saboteur is played by the English voice actor Robin Atkin Downes, and he isn't all that convincing. | |
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Nominally Irish assassin Nina Williams from the Tekken game series is played by South African actor Candice Hillebrand in the film adaptation. Her sister Anna is played by Spanish actor Marian Zapico. The characters are heard speaking with American accents (which admittedly they do in the games too), so presumably they lost their accents at some point. | |
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Ronin (1998): Natascha McElhone is English in real life. However, her mother is Irish, and Natasha regularly visited Donegal as a child. Her accent leaves something to be desired, though. | |
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British actor Paul Whitehouse played Irish estate worker Ted (of the Ted & Ralph sketches) in The Fast Show. | |
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Patrick O'Brian (born Richard Patrick Russ), the Hibernophile English author of the Aubrey-Maturin series at the very least made no move to correct journalists who thought he was Irish though whether he actively pretended to be Irish is a bit murkier. | |
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During one review in Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee did half the review in a stereotypical Irish accent, including changing the cartoon version of himself to wearing a green hat and sporting a large, red beard. | |
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Mick Jagger's laughable attempt to imitate an Irish accent in Ned Kelly. | |
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Buffyverse: Galway-born Angel is portrayed by Buffalo-born, Philadelphia-raised American David Boreanaz.note Borenaz is of very partial Irish descent. This tends to come up only in flashback scenes. While Spike is still proudly English, Angel has buried his brogue due to the bad memories. Most of the flashback scenes in Angel contain some dreadful examples of Oireland, including a delightful buxom wench played by American Christina Hendricks who sounds - well - not Irish. playing Samuel. |
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Burn Notice has both a regular and an in-universe example. Brit Gabrielle Anwar plays former-IRA Fiona Glennane; however, you'd be forgiven for not noticing, as she adopts another, American-ish accent in the second episode (and her original Irish accent was bad enough that it comes as a relief). American Jeffrey Donovan plays American Michael Westen, who uses a cover as Irish terrorist Michael McBride. Also, Michael's Irish accent is so good, Fiona's brother Sean tells him his American accent is "a bit dodgy". Made even funnier by the fact that Fiona's brother is played by Gideon Emery, an Englishman and fellow Fake Irish. | |
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Gone with the Wind has New Jersey native Thomas Mitchell as Irish immigrant Gerard O'Hara. He himself was the son of Irish immigrants. | |
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