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In every police precinct, you'll have several stereotypical types of cops. The most common of these will always be the O'Hara, the cop with the whimsical Irish accent who usually stands on the sidelines, offering recycled stereotypical quips about St. Patrick and the green hills of Oireland. This sort of officer rarely, if ever, resorts to force when dealing with a perp, but may visibly carry a nightstick. He will often have an impressive mustache. Historically this was Truth in Television in many places in the English-speaking world. The original British police force was the Royal Irish Constabulary and it formed the basis for departments throughout Britain and the Empire, the first 2 commissioners of London's Metropolitan Police both ex-RIC men. The RIC also began the custom of law enforcement as a family tradition, sons of RIC officers being given preferential treatment in recruitment, allowed an inch off the regulation height (5'08) and a year off the minimum age. Police departments in American cities like New York (around 1900, five-sixths of the NYPD was Irish), Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Baltimore were disproportionately staffed by Irish immigrants.note ("Fifteen thousand Irishmen from Erin came across./Tammany put these Irish Indians in the police force.") This also rang true in other New World colonies like Australia (in Ned Kelly's day, 80% of Victoria's police), Canada (the NWMP was based on the Royal Irish Constabulary), and New Zealand (as much as 40% in the 1930s). (This is the oft-cited reason why a police van was colloquially known as a "Paddy Wagon".note Another claim is that it got its name from the Irish drunks it often hauled. As an old New York City joke goes, "If it weren't for the Irish we wouldn't have a police force — and if it weren't for the Irish, we wouldn't need one.") A large wave of Irish immigration during the 19th century coincided with the time when major cities started establishing "professional" police forces, and police work was one of the few jobs open to Irish immigrants at the time. In Real Life, police forces offer many opportunities for recent immigrants, and they sign up, partly to protect their own people. This was exacerbated by the violence surrounding the partition of Ireland between 1916-23 which saw the murder of hundreds of police officers, many resigning and emigrating to join forces abroad, especially in America. Because early police work closely resembled thuggery, it was not a prestigious position, and because poorly-paid police were vulnerable to corruption, the police were widely despised. It did not take long for the urban police and The Irish Mob to become partners. Mostly a Discredited Trope these days. Of course, Irish-American cops still show up frequently (noticeably in The Departed in which nearly all the cop characters are Boston Irish — and all of the criminals are part of The Irish Mob), but the just-off-the-boat accent and whimsy are long gone — except somewhat in Historical Fiction. In modern works, Irish-American officers might be following in the footsteps of several generations of police families and/or trying to live up to a parent who died in the line of duty. Additionally, in many modern works, cops in big-city police departments on the East Coast are often portrayed as being honorarily Irish even if they are not of actual Irish descent — which, given the extensive adoption of Irish customs within these departments (particularly wakes for fallen officers and fake wakes for retired ones) is more or less Truth in Television (see The Wire for a good example: the Baltimore P.D. is one of those departments; also, many NYCPD-focused shows will have this element show up).note To paraphrase Lenny Bruce, in the NYPD, even if you're Black, you're Irish. The modern version of this trope could be called the "Officer Hernandez", as Hispanic recruits often make up a disproportionate amount of new hires in modern-day American police departments and security guard jobs. In some places, such as Miami-Dade, Hispanic officers even make up a majority of the local police force. The reasons for this are remarkably similar to why the Irish-American policeman of the past came to be, in that police work is difficult and unloved, but offers plenty of opportunities for upwards social mobility that make them appealing to recent immigrants. Compare Irish Priest, the other stereotypically Irish profession in American fiction. Obviously a case of People Sit on Chairs if the work is actually set in Ireland. Not to be confused with police officers in the Republic of Ireland, who are called gardaà (singular garda) and colloquially known as "guards". |
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Subverted in Super Troopers; Captain John O'Hagan (played by a Scotsman) of the Vermont State Police is probably the most competent and serious member of his department. In fact, he's probably the most competent and serious officer in the whole movie. He also takes a moment to mock the trope by briefly adopting a brogue and saying the following line when one of his men is trying to pull a fast one on him: This later gets turned around on him, complete with fake Irish accent, leading him to ask if it sounds like that when he does it. |
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Captain Connor in The Alienist is an Irish policemen in late 1800s New York City. | |
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In Fantastic Four: The Animated Series, a very Irish cop witnesses the Thing and the Hulk duking it out. The show it was paired with, Iron Man: The Animated Series, hewed close to this with their portrayal of Dum-Dum Dugan — depicted as an agent of SHIELD as in the comics. He's mostly annoyed with Iron Man's stunts causing him more and more paperwork. |
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Batman (1966): Chief O'Hara is probably one of the more famous O'Haras. He also appeared in the comics, first mentioned slightly after the show's debut, but not actually appearing on-panel until well into the 1970s. He has appeared sporadically in later years, though usually not as part of the main Batman continuity. One episode (Marsha, Queen of Diamonds) had seven cops named O'Hara, Douglas, O'Malley, O'Toole, O'Leary, O'Reilly, and Goldberg. |
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Parodied in the episode "Altruists" of Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon" with an African-American Irish police officer. | |
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The cops in the first Road Rash have the stereotypically Irish names of O'Rourke, O'Leary, O'Shea, O'Connor, and... Flynn. | |
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Brooklyn Bridge (1991-1993) has James Naughton's recurring 'Lt. Patrick Monahan' character as such-one of New York City's finest of its 1950's timeframe. | |
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Harry and Paul sends it up with Officers O'Malley-Mulligan-Hoolagey and O'Pat-Eddery-Flannery-Hoonigan in "The Cops" sketch: | |
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Rescue Me: The Gavin family is almost absurdly proud of being New York City Irish. The family has a tradition of being both cops and firefighters; one of the main drivers of the plot is firefighter Tommy Gavin's recurring nightmare/possible haunting by the ghost of his cop brother Johnny. His other younger brother Timo is also NYPD. | |
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CSI: NY averts it. Mac may be part Irish, and Flack is Irish, but they don't fall into the trope. Mac is part Welsh on his mother's side, per episode 8.18, "Near Death." |
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Ohara plays with and averts this trope — "Ohara" (without an apostrophe) is a Japanese name, and the title character, Police Chief Ohara, was played by Pat Morita. | |
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Psych averts it. There is a Detective O'Hara, but that's her name, and she is stated to be Scottish in one episode. Her partner, Carlton Lassiter, is Irish, but he doesn't act like this and isn't native to Ireland. It doesn't help that Timothy Omundson, who plays Lassiter, once played an evil leprechaun in a Disney film. | |
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Copper is justified since it takes place in 1864. The rank-and-file police officers shown are first generation immigrants who were born in Ireland. The police officer protagonists are named Corcoran, Maguire, and O'Brien. Corcoran even Lampshades the fact that their captain is as Irish as they are but the captain's father dropped the 'O' from O'Sullivan when they arrived in America. | |
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Also regarding The Pogues is their hit Christmas song "Fairytale of New York", whose chorus goes "The boys in the NYPD choir were singing "Galway Bay" // And the bells were ringin' out for Christmas Day." The Pogues' "Thousands are Sailing", about Irish immigrants to America, asks "Did you work upon the railroad? Did you rid the streets of crime?" |
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The Simpsons: There's one that pops up from time to time. He's usually portrayed as a nice and jolly NYPD cop, but he's occasionally seen in Springfield. In "In the Name of the Grandfather", an Irish judge comments that Ireland has gotten nicer since they sent all their incompetent half-wits to America... "Where you, for some reason, made them police officers." Cue Chief Clancy Wiggum entering and accidentally macing and tasering himself. In "Homer Vs. The Eighteenth Amendment", Springfield's St. Patrick's Day parade features a float honoring "2000 Years of Irish Cops." A brief use of the trope in "A Star Is Born Again": Ned has just gotten a date with movie star Sarah Sloane, but doesn't realize who she is until he sees a movie poster that she's on and exclaims about this in surprise. An Irish cop appears out of nowhere to quip unbelievingly about this, then walks off chuckling and twirling his nightstick. |
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Castle: Downplayed Trope with Kevin Ryan. He doesn't have the accent and is at least one generation, possibly more, removed from Ireland. Still, references to his Irish heritage crop up now and again, such as being raised Catholic and having gone undercover with an Irish-American gang in his earlier years. And in "The Blue Butterfly", one of the heavies in the 1940s diary story that set the scene was an Irishman, complete with calling everyone "boy-o"...whom Castle imagines as Ryan. |
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Looney Tunes: "Bugs and Thugs": Bugs Bunny imitates the voice of an Irish cop to scare his kidnappers, which is then followed by a real Irish cop who shows up and repeats Bugs' words exactly. "Bowery Bugs": Steve Brodie approaches a police officer and says "I'm flippin' me lid! Everybody's turnin' into rabbits!" The officer reveals himself to be Bugs in disguise, who says (in a thick Irish accent) "What's all this about rabbits, Doc?" In a latter-day Daffy Duck/Porky Pig short, Daffy uses the moniker "Sergeant O'Duck". That same short ("Corn on the Cop") also had an Officer Flaherty. in The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie, Bugs has a roundabout exchange between officers Clancy and Thomas, effecting an Irish accent at the same time. |
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Officer O'Ryan fits the trope to a T in Adventures in Odyssey. In fact, he was the town's only cop until the introduction of Captain Quinn. | |
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Walt Disney Presents: In Michael O'Hara the Fourth, the O'Haras are a multi-generational family of cops. A flashback shows Michael O'Hara the First to have been a stereotypical turn-of-the-century Irish cop. | |
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In the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, there was an episode with an Irish cop who persisted in believing the turtles were leprechauns. | |
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Justice League: The episode "Legends" sends Green Lantern, The Flash, Hawkgirl and Martian Manhunter to a dimension that's one giant silver age pastiche. Naturally, there are exactly two cops in town, both red-haired Irish types with broad accents. After The Reveal, those same cops speak with generic American accents. | |
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In the English dub of SD Gundam Force, one of the mobile police officers in Neotopia has a distinctly Irish accent. | |
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In the Spirou & Fantasio album Luna fatale (which features a Mafia/Tong war), all NYC policemen have Irish names. | |
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In Brannigan, John Wayne portrays Lt. Jim Brannigan, an Irish-American officer with the Chicago police department, who goes to London to extradite a gangster who is being held for ransom. Brannigan experiences a culture clash when meeting the British police, using methods considered unorthodox by British police standards, with a conflict involving Commander Swann regarding Brannigan's use of a .38 Colt Diamondback revolver. | |
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In A Matter of Life and Death, the Irish member of the original Jury of the Damned is swapped out for an American when the defence objects. Specifically, he is swapped out for an Irish-American cop played by the same actor. | |
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Hawaii Five-O (both versions). Averted with Steve McGarrett. | |
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn features a cop named Michael McShane. | |
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One stage production of Animal Crackers also had a black Irish officer. | |
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X-Men Noir is set in 1937, and Chief Eric Magnus is an Eastern European immigrant cop who is bitter over being discriminated against by the Irish-American cops who dominate the NYCPD; he claims he failed the Sergeant's Exam three times just because he doesn't have a shred of Irish heritage. It's never explicitly spelled out, but it's notable that none of the members of his clandestine "Brotherhood" are Irish, either. | |
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The Job: The protagonist is an Irish-American police officer in modern-day New York City. Both he and his fellow officers often mention and light-heartedly make fun of his Irish heritage. | |
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: Captain Stacy calls himself "an Irish cop" when one of his co-workers asks him if he can speak Italian to a version of The Vulture who speaks the language. | |
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Golden Boy briefly discusses it in one episode. Walter's sister Agnes asks Detective Deb McKenzie if there's any bigger cliche in New York City than a waitress wanting to make it big: | |
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Karrin Murphy of The Dresden Files is a Chicago cop, the scion of a large clan of cops and has a very Irish surname. Officers Thomas Malone and Ronald Carmichael are two of her co-workers. | |
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Somebody Up There Likes Me: More plot-relevant than this trope usually is. There's ethnic tension between the Irish beat cops and the local residents of New York City's Little Italy. One Irish cop calls Rocky Graziano a "greaseball". | |
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The Past Doctor Adventures novel Illegal Alien, which transposes a number of American hardboiled detective tropes to Britain, plays with it by having a Northern Irish Chief Inspector in the Met, who says things like "Saints preserve us", but also suspects all Irish-Americans of being IRA sympathisers. | |
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Hoodlum provides an example with Captain Foley's character. Crooked type. | |
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Arsenic and Old Lace has wannabe playwright Officer O'Hara, basically competent Officer Brophy, and a few other non-Irish cops. | |
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Freakazoid! had "Officer Dan", an older cop with an Irish accent frequently seen with his younger partner Muhammad-Abdul. | |
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Little Annie Rooney: A silent film can't demonstrate Officer Rooney's ethnicity with accents, so the title cards have him say stuff like, "'Tis proud I am." | |
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Pepper Clark in Littlest Pet Shop (2012) impersonates one during a King Kong-style Imagine Spot in the episode "Spendthrifty", complete with an utterance of "Potatoes potatoes". | |
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Subverted by Officer Jones in Bridesmaids as actor Chris O'Dowd uses his native accent even though he's playing a Wisconsin state trooper, since the production crew liked it too much. | |
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The show it was paired with, Iron Man: The Animated Series, hewed close to this with their portrayal of Dum-Dum Dugan — depicted as an agent of SHIELD as in the comics. He's mostly annoyed with Iron Man's stunts causing him more and more paperwork. | |
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Blue Bloods: The Reagan family is of Irish descent (with new Mayor Carter Poole even calling Frank a "white Irish cop" in the Season 2 premiere), but the trope is otherwise averted quite handily. | |
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The Godfather: Captain Mark McCluskey, whose father was a police captain as well. | |
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In SHED.MOV, one of the cops who bursts into Fluttershy's shed near the end has a red mane (and mustache) and speaks with an Irish accent. | |
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The police officer guarding the entrance to the zoo in Lady and the Tramp fits the mold, down to the Hair-Trigger Temper. | |
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The Powerpuff Girls (1998), which has shown many cops, has both straight examples and aversions. | |
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Going My Way features Officer McCarthy as the local Irish beat cop, but since there's an Irish Priest in the parish church and seemingly most of the older people in the neighborhood are Irish immigrants, it's natural enough. | |
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Grrl Power : "Apparently Maxima thinks all cops are Irish and from 1930" | |
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The Beatles features one of these policemen in "Hold Me Tight," "Roll Over Beethoven" and "We Can Work It Out." The cop in "Hold Me Tight" is notable for calling George out for not having an American accent after the Beatle profiles a man for being a foreign spy bent on blowing up the Statue of Liberty. | |
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Space Precinct, a "Cops in Space" show made by Gerry Anderson, starred Gary Ewing Ted Shackelford as veteran former New York City cop Patrick Brogan, but the Irish accent came from Captain Podly, an alien played by an actor with a giant puppet head. Ridiculous stereotypical accent aside, Podly was still a perfectly competent cop and got a few badass moments. | |
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The Moon is Blue has Detective-Sergeant Michael O'Neill, Patty's dad. She describes him as being Brooklyn-born but "Irish from way back" and talking in a thick brogue when he gets angry, which he does in the only scene where he appears. | |
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Color Classics: "The Fresh Vegetable Mystery" features potato policemen with thick Irish accents. The short "A Kick In Time" has a gag with an Irish police horse appearing. |
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Invoked in The Jack Benny Program whenever they did a mystery sketch: Jack played "that master super-sleuth, Captain O'Benny", and other characters playing his assistants got O's added to their names too: O'Harris, O'Day, O'Wilson... Although when Dennis Day (well-known for his (intentionally cultivated) Irish accent) tried to ham up the role with said, Jack told him to "cut out the dialect". | |
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The first Destroy All Humans! games feature Irish cops. | |
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Deadly Hero (1975) has Don Murray as one of these-an Irish-American-as one of New York City's not-so-finest who fatally shoots a surrendering criminal then tries terrorizing the crook's victim out of testifying against the so called titluar "hero". | |
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Patlabor fell into this trope more or less by accident (there is no evidence they did the research), by giving their (half) Japanese-American New York Cop the very Irish (and noted) name of Clancy, Kanuka Clancy (a Shout-Out to Tom Clancy). It helped a lot of fans with the Fridge Logic of why someone from Hawaii would join the NYPD. | |
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The O'Dare family in Starman is third generation Irish-American and third generation police. Hope, the only daughter, is particularly proud of her heritage, complete with a love of Irish cuisine and Celtic music and a hatred for the English. | |
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The Green Hornet Serials: Mike Axford was this trope until he retired and became Britt's bodyguard. Several of his buddies on the force fit here as well. | |
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Detective Norman of Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, at least, in the English dub. | |
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James Donnelly of L.A. Noire. | |
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Gentlemen Explorers: The copper who arrests Riley and the Magician at the brothel has what was probably intended to be an Irish accent, but quickly becomes What the Hell Is That Accent? | |
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No God, No Master: William Flynn, the Irish American main character who's an agent with the Bureau of Investigation at the US Justice Department. | |
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Urban Chaos: Riot Response had quite a few Irish cops, including an O'Hara, an O'Shaunassy, and an O'Riley. | |
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Lackadaisy: Calvin "Freckle" McMurray, a second-generation American whose mother is as Irish as they come, was going to be a policeman, but fortunately his Ax-Crazy tendencies were discovered before he graduated from the academy. And then his cousin dragged him into the bootlegging business. | |
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Law & Order: Detectives Greevey and Logan from season 1 are both Irish-American, as is ADA Stone (and later Jack McCoy, and judging from a crack made about her, ADA Kincaid as well). Inevitably, there's an episode involving The Troubles. | |
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The Real Ghostbusters episode "The Scaring of the Green" had two of them. The first was an old cop who was cursed because an ancestor had stolen a leprechaun's pot of gold, and was now being pursued by the Monster of the Week; Ray encountered the second one when he was looking for a four-leaf clover in the park, something believed to repel said monster. When he explained to the cop what he was doing, in full, the guy thought he was making fun of his accent and stuffed him in a trash can. | |
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That Hideous Strength: The evil organization N.I.C.E. uses a paramilitary police force to take over Edgestow, England. It is composed of mostly immigrants, including Captain O'Hara from Dublin. He is only seen a few times and doesn't engage in the brutality and torture that the other officers do. | |
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Chief O'Reilly from the Bananaman comic book and animated series, who was a parody/homage of Chief O'Hara from Batman. | |
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Brooklyn South (1997-1998) have several, both younger officers and veterans, that fit this ethnicity. | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: Pretty much every time a policeman appears in one episode, Tom Servo says "A'right, show's over folks. Nothin' ta see, here," in a fake Irish accent. Is it worth pointing out Servo was voiced by Kevin Murphy? Directly addressed in a skit at the end of "Indestructible Man". After Joel swears to stop making jokes about policemen and their alleged love for doughnuts, Kevin Murphy and Mike Nelson appear as policemen and begin complaining about other stereotypes about the police, including this one: |
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The Cow and Chicken episode "Black Sheep of the Family" had the Red Guy pretend to be an Irish cop named Officer O'Fannahey. | |
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In Batman: Gotham by Gaslight all Bruce Wayne has to do to fool people into thinking he's a policeman is fake an Irish accent! Also, some of the actual cops in the movie are straight examples of this trope. | |
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Murder, She Wrote Jessica's Friend on the Force in the episode "Unwilling Witness" is a man named Sean Riley with a strong Irish accent. One "Jessica's friends" Poorly Disguised Pilot was "O'Malley's Luck", about an NYPD lieutenant so Irish he actually had a map of Ireland on the wall of his office. |
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The Futurama film The Beast with a Billion Backs had Fry's newest polyamorous girlfriend who was also the new chief of police with the very Irish name Colleen O'Halahan. Plus she was played by the late Brittany Murphy, who was equally Irish. | |
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Played for laughs in the 2005 version of The Producers (which is set in 1958, when this trope had already become irrelevant in Real Life). Two NYCPD cops with very thick stereotypical Irish brogues come to investigate goings-on in Max's apartment and discover Max and Leo Bloom's "cooked books" from their fraud scheme. Also, Max tries to bluff his way past the cops by assuming a ridiculous parody of a brogue in which his voice keeps getting higher and higher. | |
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Psychonauts had a Lampshade/parody sequence in the lungfish level, complete with Officer O'Lungfish. | |
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Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf: The cop who shows up at the drive-in to investigate the werewolf sightings has a distinct Irish accent. | |
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In Johnny Dangerously, Alan Hale Jr.'s character was one of these. | |
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Officer O'Malley in Questionable Content seems to be based on this stereotype but since he's an AI in a robotic body it's presumably an affectation on his part. | |
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All in the Family has occasional episodes of this, ex. Season 4's "The Taxi Caper" (1973) | |
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Good Cop from the The LEGO Movie plays this straight, being a ridiculously polite Nice Guy even to people he's supposed to be pursuing. Bad Cop, the other side of his Split Personality, averts this, being as grim and intimidating (for LEGO person) as you might expect by someone voiced by Liam Neeson. We even meet his parents, gentle folk with sweet Irish accents in front of a sweet little cottage, and in an off moment Bad Cop hums "Danny Boy." | |
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Little Lulu features Clarence McNabb who is depicted as a truant officer in early installments, and as a regular patrolman in the 1990s animated series. | |
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In Superman: The Movie, the first two Metropolis police officers to encounter the Man of Steel are straight examples of this trope. | |
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In L.A. Confidential, Captain Dudley Smith is this complete with the off-the-boat accent and stereotypical expressions. | |
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Jimmy Malone in The Untouchables (1987), who was completely and utterly invented for the movie. The real Eliot Ness knew what he was doing from the start, and didn't need a wise mentor to show him the ropes but apparently, that wouldn't be dramatic enough. Also, Sean Connery is not Irish, no matter what the other characters say. | |
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Lonigan in Wonderful Town, who with the other cops launches into a song and jig under the impression that Eileen is Irish, too. | |
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In Frosty the Snowman, the "traffic cop" mentioned in the song has an Irish brogue. He even returns in the sequel, Frosty's Winter Wonderland. | |
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Fort Apache, The Bronx stars Paul Newman as a third generation New York City police officer who's this (after his father and grandfather before him). | |
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Irish cops aplenty in the movie Blown Away, set in present-day Boston. To judge from this movie, it seems that the Boston Police Department recruits solely from those fresh off the potato boat from Ireland. | |
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From the Harold Shea series (by the same authors), there's Pete Brodsky, a.k.a. "the synthetic harp". As his last name suggests, he's not Irish at all, but he has deliberately adopted a thick brogue and the stereotypical mannerisms of the Irish cop. As he explains to the main character, the police department he's in is overwhelmingly Irish — including all the higher-ups — and that means if you aren't Irish, you'll stay a beat cop your whole career. | |
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Q & A has Nick Nolte as one of these, a murderous bigoted tool of an ambitious Homicide Bureau chief and who sees himself as a "line" that keeps minorities downtrodden and subordinate. | |
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The Cabinet of Curiosities features NYPD officer Patrick "Paddy" O'Shaughnessey, who is described as having "probably the most Irish name in New York." The book then goes on to subvert the trope at every turn, making him a boon to the investigation, a guy with a standard New York City accent, and a lover of opera. | |
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Parodied in the Silly Symphonies short "Who Killed Cock Robin?" | |
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In The District, Detective McGregor is an actual Irishman who'd immigrated to the US and became a cop. | |
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The ballad "The Streets of New York" by Irish folk band The Wolfe Tones tells the story of an Irishman from Dublin who moves to New York and becomes a policeman, seemingly following the footsteps of his uncle who lives there. | |
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Boardwalk Empire: The Thompsons are Irish-Americans, with Nucky serving as Sheriff Lindsay's deputy, and later as Sheriff in the Atlantic City political machine run by the Commodore, before becoming the county treasurer. His brother Eli follows him as Sheriff, which he retains until he's forced out at the end of season 2 for his part in the Commodore's conspiracy to overthrow Nucky. Season 5 features a fictionalized version of Mike Malone, an Irish-American treasury agent who gets into Al Capone's inner circle by pretending to be an Italian named Mike D'Angelo. |
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In The Wire, even though the Baltimore Police Department is racially mixed, with at least half of the officers African-American and another good chunk being Polish, their traditions still have a strongly Irish flavor. For example, they all attend Irish wakes for fallen officers at Kavanaugh's Pub, where Jay Landsman gives a eulogy to the departed and leads everyone in a passionate sing-along to The Pogues' "Body of an American." It's explicitly stated in David Simon's book Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets — on which the show is partially based, that no matter your origin, when you join the Baltimore PD you become "honorary Irish". More directly, several police characters actually are Irish-American, including ostensible lead Jimmy McNulty and the first-season "humps" Polk and Mahon. | |
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Lieutenant Brannigan from Guys and Dolls. | |
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Johnny Bravo features a couple of Irish-accented cops confronting Johnny and Carol's crab ex-boyfriend Ned at the end of the episode "Date With an Antelope." | |
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Parodied in The Other Guys during the scene in the Irish bar. | |
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The eleventh season of Survivor had Amy O'Hara, a police sergeant from Boston. | |
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Sergeant Yates, the red-headed cop in South Park, whose wife, Maggie, has the stereotypical immigrant accent. | |
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The sentry in Oedipus in my Inventory has a bad Irish accent. | |
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The Sega Genesis and SNES versions of Monopoly play a speech-clip of an Irish policeman whenever you get out of jail: "Don'cha be comin' back here, now!" The NES version uses a slightly different phrase: "Don't be comin' backs, now!" | |
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The Lois & Clark episode "Fly Hard" involves an extended How We Got Here Flashback to the Prohibition era with the regulars playing the characters in the flashback. This means the cop in the flashback is Irish, fond of alcohol, and on the take. The cop is being played by Lane Smith, the actor who plays Perry White, and let's just say Smith's genial Southern good-ol'-boy drawl (his normal voice for Perry) is a bit more convincing than his Officer O'Hara-style Irishman. | |
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American Gods: When Mr. Wednesday teaches Shadow about his favorite cons, he mentions one involving him playing a police officer with "a broad, honest Irish face" and a fresh-off-the-boat music-hall accent two miles thick. | |
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Mickey Mouse Comic Universe: Comics where Mickey Mouse is a detective (often Mickey's on-again, off-again freelance job) have a beefy uniformed police chief named O'Hara as Mickey's boss. He originally appeared with an accent, though in the 1960s it was dropped. In a few later cartoons (notably on House of Mouse), O'Hara did appear with an accent. And it's back, too, in most new comics produced since the 1990s. It must be noted that with or without the accent, Mickey's O'Hara is a competent, long-suffering cop whose real problem isn't his own weakness — it's that his chief of detectives, Mr. Casey, is an overconfident blunderer (whom Mickey has inadvertently upstaged many times, leading to a friendly rivalry). | |
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In The Darkside Detective, the spectral Officer Ghouley has an Irish Funetik Aksent and an impressive moustache, and wears an old-fashioned uniform of the time period when this trope was common. | |
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The New Adventures of Superman episode "The Cage of Glass". When Brainiac shrinks Metropolis, one of the city police officers is this stereotype. | |
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Francis McReary from Grand Theft Auto IV is a member of an Irish-American crime family who rejected the criminal lifestyle in favor of becoming a cop. Despite looking down on his gangster relatives, he proves to be just as corrupt if not more so than them. | |
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Prison Guard O'Hara in the case of The Big House and Pop Riker the guard. Pop is the more sympathetic, good-hearted guard, in contrast to the cruel and not-Irish Marlowe. | |
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Family Guy: Parodied in "The Thin White Line", where the Irish cop is actually a Jewish guy named Horowitz who's just good at impressions. Played straight in another episode with a different Irish cop (the one who says "Ohhh... Look at the little baby, Aren't you cute, where's your mommy?" to everyone regardless of age). |
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In The Killer That Stalked New York, a 1950 film Very Loosely Based on the 1947 New York City smallpox outbreak, there's Officer Houlihan, who brings a young woman to Dr. Wood's clinic after she almost fainted out on the streets. Dr. Wood and his nurse discuss this, making it clear by briefly imitating Houlihan's accent that they don't agree with Houlihan's assessment that the patient needed immediate medical attention. What they don't know is that this woman is Sheila Bennet, Patient Zero for the smallpox outbreak. | |
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This was subverted in Laura Bow: The Dagger of Amon Ra with police chief Ryan O'Riley. He had the accent, but was rude, confrontational, constantly suspicious of you, and otherwise anything but whimsical. He was also the killer. | |
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The first American dub of Rurouni Kenshin had the cops sporting Irish accents; fortunately this tested so poorly that it went back for redubbing before the commercial release. | |
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Officer O'Hara | |
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The Electric Company (1971): Jim Boyd and Skip Hennant play, as par for the show, ineffectual versions of this. | |
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Officer O'Hara | |
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In Batman: Dark Victory, Clancy O'Hara was Gotham Police Chief at the beginning of the story. He's the first victim of the Hangman murders. | |
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"Bugs and Thugs": Bugs Bunny imitates the voice of an Irish cop to scare his kidnappers, which is then followed by a real Irish cop who shows up and repeats Bugs' words exactly. | |
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In West Side Story, the Jets repeatedly mock Officer Krupke with a sarcastic "Top o' the day, Officer Krupke!" even though Krupke and his partner (who are presumably not Irish-American, considering his Mitteleurope surname) display none of the trope characteristics. | |
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Deconstructed in Warrior (2019), which is set in 1870s San Francisco, and shows exactly how Irish-Americans immigrants - via police departments or The Irish Mob, which are treated as inextricably linked to the point where they're almost interchangeable - were used as a cudgel against Chinese immigrants by the WASP-y robber barons and elites of the day, mainly to keep labor cheap. | |
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Revolution: In "Sex and Drugs", The O'Hallorans, the neighboring family that is burning Drexler's poppy fields, are a long line of such, although the father's primary motivation is personal: Drexel killed his daughter with a heroin overdose. | |
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Since the NYPD is very prominently a feature of the Netflix Marvel shows, a number of cops with Irish ancestry do show up. The second season of The Punisher features one Officer O'Rourke who tries to collect on a bounty on Frank Castle's head to avenge family of his who were in the Kitchen Irish, while Daredevil gives us Brett Mahoney, Foggy Nelson's longtime Friend on the Force. | |
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Law & Order: UK: DS Matt Devlin (Logan's Expy). However, it never becomes an issue, except in one scene where he references his heritage in order to gain the trust of a young prostitute he's questioning, and another where he mentions being hassled about it during his rookie years, "They called me "mick" for the first six months because my family are Irish". Despite the UK setting, this is about as close as a reference to The Troubles as we've gotten. | |
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