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Lots of Americans have a fondness for Ireland. This is understandable, considering there are more Americans of Irish descent than there are people living in Ireland (by a margin of about 11 to 1). This has a certain amount of always an actor about it, in that Americans will sometimes claim Irish or Scots descent on the basis of third or fourth generation ancestors and near-homeopathic dilutions of actual genetic connection. Thus, it is only natural that some series would at some point have an episode or two on the Emerald Isle. Unfortunately, most people in Hollywood can't tell the difference between Ireland and Scotland. Some, however, like to show that they did do the research by showing Ireland as a separate country with its own customs. However, rather than have a look at what the place is actually like, they turn to British Series made before the Irish stopped being a punchline there. Hence, you end up with Oireland. This trope goes waaaaaaaay back to at least the days of stage Irishmen in eighteenth-century British theatre. Brought back to life by John Ford in the iconic John Wayne film The Quiet Man — which is not a bad movie, and was well-meant by the staunchly Irish-American Ford (something also seen in his later and lesser-known triptych film The Rising of the Moon, filmed entirely in Ireland with the Abbey Theatre players). While elements of this character may also be seen in Southie, never try to argue over whether Irish-Americans (or Irish-Canadians, for that matter) should be considered Irish. 'Twill nae end well. |
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The Smurfs Season 9 episode "Shamrock Smurfs" has them appearing on the Emerald Isle, where the only thing they have to eat are potatoes. Greedy tries to serve them a shamrock stew, but upon his first taste of the stew he becomes a leprechaun and starts harassing the other Smurfs with his mischievous pranks. The rest of the episode is about the Smurfs trying to catch Greedy so that they can turn him back into a normal Smurf before sundown, or else he would end up as a leprechaun forever. | |
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Bless Me Father: the TV version of the short stories about priests living in 1950's London has the English actor Arthur Lowe exaggerating his accent and mannerisms in order to portray Father Duddleswell. | |
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Shadow Hearts Father James O'Flaherty form Koudelka. A survivor of The Great Famine, he studied at an English university and then entered the Vatican and embarked upon a long career as a Bishop. His haughty, quarrelsome, and arrogant personality puts him at odds with both Koudelka and Edward. Roy McManus from Shadow Hearts: From The New World. An ill-tempered, violent and power hungry Irish gang boss, McManus tried to seize up Chicago while Capone was locked in Alcatraz. He also had a most unrequited crush on Capone's sister Edna that led him to kidnap her. Sadly for both of them, Edna did not return his feelings and an enraged McManus pulled a gun and shot her dead. |
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Ballykissangel:Jesus Christ, Ballykissangel. Doubly so as it's made by the BBC. It was at least filmed on location in Wicklow. | |
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Even worse, Slaugh has several sequences in an Ireland torn and devastated by the Troubles... even though it takes place three years after the end of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. For those who don't know the Harry Potter timeline, Deathly Hallows takes place in 1998, the year the Good Friday Agreement was signed; while it's ridiculous to say that brought an immediate end to all the fighting, the story doesn't seem to realize there was any sort of action at all. | |
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Zane Flynt, one of the main characters of Borderlands 3 is a boisterous, charming and violet Silver Fox with a thick Irish accent and a persona to boot. Which is a bit weird, considering his dearly departed siblings(Blown to bits by the previous Vault hunters) had American accents. Then again, anything can happen in Pandora. Also, subverted in that Zane doesn't wear green. | |
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Subverted in Power Rangers GPX, with the Irish Blue Ranger Kevin O'Donnell, who speaks very clearly and does not have much of a temper. It's mocked in an alternate universe version where Kevin says that he's never lived in a thatched-roof house his entire life (He's from Dublin). | |
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The Cassidy family — Siryn, Banshee, and Black Tom — in X-Men often lapse into this, depending on the writer. They even own a castle full of leprechauns. | |
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Seamus Finnegan from The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin is initially presented as an Oirish sterotype; an ill-educated labourer "from the land of bogs and potatoes" discovered quaffing Guiness in a pub whilst wondering what to gamble on next who's hired by the protagonist as his admin officer in an attempt to sabotage his own company. As soon as the scruffy Irishman hits the boardroom he's shown to have an absolute genius for management. | |
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Angel from Angel is this to a degree. | |
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There's an episode of Jeeves and Wooster in which Gussie and Spode are hired to play a pair of stage Irishmen named Pat and Mike for the village talent show. They put on woolly green beards and wave around umbrellas. Gussy really can't do the accent - in the short story the episode is based on, he actually points out how ridiculous it is, saying he's never met an Irishman who speaks or acts like this - and Spode doesn't even bother. Much like the episode with the blackface minstrels, it managed to avoid being offensive just by being utterly ludicrous. | |
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The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, in which the Easter Rising apparently lasted a few hours, as opposed to the six days it lasted in reality. Interestingly, this episode also offers a subversion where Indiana meets an Irishman who is reasonably pissed off about the Irish stereotypes that are played up for foreigners. Said pissed off Irishman turns out to be Seán O'Casey. The documentary supplied on the box-set describes Countess Markiewicz as a "blood-thirsty aristocrat", missing out on her labour activism, involvement with the suffrage movement and the arts, House of Commons position and later Cabinet position in post-war Ireland & her role in the founding of the ICA. | |
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The Simpsons does this every so often: The most egregious example may be "In the Name of the Grandfather", which has our favorite family being guilted by Grandpa into taking him to one last booze-up at an old pub he frequented during the war. In flashbacks, Grandpa describes it as a typical Oirish pub, with taps for Guinness, cabbage and corned beef (which isn't even Irish, as noted above), and sheep aplenty, also during one scene you can see two references to Celtic FCnote The person in the green-and-white hooped shirt, plus there's something on a wall. For those who don't know, Celtic are a Scottish football club who are heavily associated with Ireland, tricolours can be seen in the stadium, and were founded by a priest from Sligo seen here◊. The episode is a subversion of the trope as the town has become a bustling, modern metropolis where no one has time to go drinking. The trope was double-subverted near the end, when Homer and Grandpa unwittingly buy the pub, allow indoor smoking (which was banned in Ireland in 2004), and business picks up. It was too good to last, for in true sitcom fashion, the police shut them down and deport them back to America. Ironically, this episode was broadcast as Ireland was entering a recession. The Irish Police uniforms and vehicles in the episode look more like their Northern Ireland counterparts especially with the english word "Police" written on their uniforms and vehicles when it should be the Irish word "Garda". The trope is even more subverted when the typically Oirish pubkeeper, played by genuine Irishman Colm Meaney (Star Trek: The Next Generation), tries to serve Grandpa a drink. First, he offers an Australian wine. When Grandpa then insists on an Irish drink, the barkeep complies, sarcastically giving him a shot of Bushmill's, stuck in a potato, which is floating in a pint of Guinness, all called out in an exaggerated Oirish accent. Once again, Grandpa, exasperated, insists on an Irish drink. The barkeep spits into the Bushmill's, and Grandpa is finally satisfied. Other episodes set in or around Saint Patrick's Day have always tended to play up the Troubles, usually with some English establishment being blown up, before drunken Oirishmen (or faux-Oirishmen, for as Kent Brockman says, St. Patrick's Day is the day when "everyone's a little bit Irish, except, of course, for the gays and the Italians") begin rioting. In "Sex, Pies And Idiot Scrapes", a St Patrick's day parade turns into a city riot when Nationalist Irish and the Unionist Northern Irish paraders (led by a Green and Orange Leprechaun respectively) get into a fight. Seeing this, Bart comments "Where's the IRA when you need them?" which caused a bit of controversy in Britain since it's still a sensitive subject. An ex-IRA tells Bart the IRA has put aside "the way of the gun and bomb" and seeks peaceful means of reunification. Then, an English-style Double-Decker bus rolls by, complete with a large Union Jack on the side. His wistful remark is "Yeah, in the olden days, we'd be all over that." Grandpa: "Who kicked the Irish out in aught-four? I did, that's who!"/Oirishman (complete with green vest and derby and shillelagh): "And a foine job ye did, too." The same Oirishman appeared in Whacking Day, when it was explained that the holiday had started as "an excuse to beat up the Irish". "Oi took many a lump! But 'twas all in good fun." Played straight in "Treehouse of Horror XII"; when Homer gets the family cursed, he and Bart catch a nasty, hateful and vulgar leprechaun, which proceeds to cause nothing but ruckus for the household. |
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The beginning of Heroes Season 2. When Peter ends up in Ireland, with no idea of how he got there, he is found by an Irish 'brotherhood.' Each member of this brotherhood has a Celtic tattoo, and Peter is welcomed in eventually. The main Irishman (Ricky) runs an stereotypical Irish pub, and steals goods from the docks, with the rest of the brotherhood. Throw in bad accents, belonging to the opposite end of the country, and tight shirts for that authentic Oirish feel. Many of the actors were British. They rob some money (for "soccer") from a stadium which is comprised of dollars, and have a shootout with the "police" (the Gardaí do not carry firearms). They also do not pronounce Caitlín in the traditional Irish way. | |
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They do tend (well, JBL tended) to play up that the Irish "love to fight". And his moveset includes the "Irish Curse" backbreaker, the "Brogue Kick" and the cloverleaf, which, while an actual legit term, was probably incorporated for the name. | |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) has a cop in the episode "Great Boldini" who's so absurdly Irish he mistakes the turtles for leprechauns, since they're short and predominantly green. | |
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The Zaffords in Borderlands 2 are as Oirish as it's possible to be while living on a planet that doesn't actually include Ireland. Their logo is a clover, their leader is named Mick, their main hobby is booze, there is so much green, and Mick's accent is so thick you could stand on it. | |
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The Suffering: Ties That Bind boasts an Irish Foundation soldier who promptly shouts 'Jaysus!' every 2-3 seconds. And boasts a deliciously Oirish accent the rest of the time. | |
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Molly O'Flannigan, Yuki-Rin's sister, from One Piece: Parallel Works, despite the fact there is no Oireland-type country in the One Piece world. A flashback during the Baleeira Porto Arc revealed that before the Celestial Dragons killed Molly's parents and then forced Molly into Yuki-Rin's against her will, her parents owned a pub. The trope becomes Invoked in the Erin Island Arc, where the Capricorn Pirates visited Molly's home island, which is heavily based off of Ireland. |
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From Mobile Suit Gundam 00: Lockon Stratos, Sniping the targets! We're talking about a pair of twins here. | |
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Scrubs downplays it when Colin Farrell guest stars as a sexy Irish man whose accent makes everyone in the hospital swoon. Carla even tries to kiss him twice just because he said her hair was curly. The reason he's in the hospital in the first place? Bar fight of course. | |
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Jack O'Hara of the Commandos series is a violent, undisciplined Blood Knight who punched out a superior officer. The only thing keeping him out of prison is his service in the Commandos. However, the stereotypes end there: In combat, he's an efficient soldier who is capable of wiping out German regiments single handed and will always get the job done, doesn't say stereotypical Oirish things and he isn't even the resident alcoholic (The Diver, who is Australian, holds that distinction). | |
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A young Lyndy Brill (Catherine Hargreaves in Grange Hill) played the daughter of an Irish terrorist involved in The Troubles in The Sweeney. Her Oirish accent would make a real Irish teenage girl cringe. | |
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The bats in the Rats, Bats and Vats series are almost an invocation of the trope; they had Irish revolutionary songs downloaded into the implants in their heads, and it shows. | |
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The Discworld expanded by A.A. Pessimal has Hergen - a name exisiting pretty much in isolation in Canon, depicting only a remote country on a far coast - which becomes the Disc's exaggerated depiction of Oireland, exploiting all the stereotypes and then some. | |
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Becky Lynch (formerly known as Rebecca Knox) debuted on NXT with this kind of gimmick, complete with jigging, dyed red hair and bright green attire. Fan reactions to this were incredibly negative and within a month she had traded the character for a mosh pit Genki Girl instead. The only indicators of her being Irish are the red hair and Dublin as a hometown. | |
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Invoked by Hunter Hillman in And Another Thing..., a hard-headed property developer who deliberately talks like a Barry Fitzgerald character so people will trust and underestimate him. | |
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The characters in Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks live at Ireland. Piggley lives on a farm and the characters have heavy Irish accents. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1985): In "The Little People of Killany Woods", Liam O'Shaughnessy is a lazy, shiftless Irishman with a well-deserved reputation for telling tall tales, which he invariably does at the pub Kelly's. The mean-spirited and boorish Mike Mulvaney, another heavy drinker, is angered by Liam's stories of having seen Leprechauns in Killany Woods - which turn out to be aliens - and throws him out of the pub head first. | |
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Pan features a rather uncomfortable Oirish nun running the orphanage Peter escapes from. Portrayed as a fat ugly child hater - who is also nasty to a cartoonish level. She's also Fake Irish (played by Brit Kathy Burke). | |
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Sons of Anarchy: the gang has a strong alliance with the IRA, which is how they receive their guns for distribution in America. One season has the gang visit Belfast and get mixed up in an intra-IRA feud. One of the leaders of the IRA is shown to be a Catholic priest who holds his own in a fistfight. There's also quite a lot of drinking amongst the Irish, though not any more than the Americans. It's also pointed out that some of the Sons are Protestant, with one the son of an Orangeman. Though the accents are a bit off and the depiction of radio stations in Ireland playing mostly Dropkick Murphy's and things of that nature is unrealistic to say the least. | |
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His name is Finlay... and he loves to fight (particularly grating as he was from, and was billed as such, Belfast, in Northern Ireland!) He even gained a leprechaun sidekick in Hornswoggle. | |
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The Medieval Spawn/Witchblade series, where an Irishman named Stalker kills a leprechaun. Stalker claims it was a mercy killing, since the leprechaun was badly hurt, but one minute earlier he was complaining loudly about how leprechauns contributes to Irish stereotypes. | |
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The Lost Fleet and The Genesis Fleet feature Eire, a planet where shamrocks are plentiful and the people love green so much that some genetically engineered their family lines to pass green hair down to their descendants. | |
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Both played straight and subverted in the first Broken Sword game. Both played straight in that the Irish village you visit features a lot of folk music and hard drinking stereotypes; subverted in that the characters are NOT impressed by being greeted with a 'Top of the morning to yeh' and references to 'The Little People'. | |
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The Secret of Roan Inish: somewhat justified, as it's set in the late 1940s and in a community notable for its old-fashionedness. We briefly get to see other parts of Ireland, which are very industrial and modern. | |
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In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, once Tony Stark loses the English digital assistant J.A.R.V.I.S. in Avengers: Age of Ultron, his replacement is an Oirish female, F.R.I.D.A.Y. While it is voiced by an actual actress from the island, Kerry Condon, one line from Captain America: Civil War is so Irish there were reports of laughter in Dublin: "Weapons system is knackered, boss!" | |
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An episode of Jackie Chan Adventures, set on St Patrick's Day, and with Oirish characters so superstitious and credulous they believed Jade was a leprechaun. Ireland in this example also appears quite modern with the same characters watching a soccer match on TV. Then again, they were right about the cursed emerald... | |
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Fractale has a slight amount of this going on- the main character lives in a very old fashioned faux-thatched cottage, despite the series being set hundreds of years in the future. This may just be to add to the already-copious Scenery Porn. | |
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The Mating Season: Bertie Wooster is supposed to do a "Pat and Mike" comedy crosstalk routine with Gussie Fink-Nottle. Gussie is not at all impressed when he reads the script, and he ruthlessly dissects this trope. | |
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The Quiet Man, one of the most loving depictions of Oireland that you'll ever see. It's quite popular in Ireland itself - considering it was filmed there, uses the Irish language and stars national icon Maureen O'Hara. It was also carefully researched, making sure the costumes were accurate for the 1920s setting. It was based on a short story The Green Rushes by Maurice Walsh, considered one of Ireland's most prolific writers of his time - giving the film far more credibility than other examples. | |
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BioShock 2 brings us Simon Wales, the leader of a religion based around the ideas of Sofia Lamb. | |
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Lampshaded and averted in the Diogenes Club stories featuring Kate Reed. In "The Gypsies in the Wood", an American publicist for a fairyland theme park which features an Englishman's idea of a leprechaun among its characters tells her in an appalling accent that of course as a child of the Emerald Isle she'll have a soft spot for the Wee Folk. The narration states that Kate's father was a stern Dublin Protestant who instilled in his children a complete contempt for the superstitions of the rural people. | |
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The future of Star Trek is supposed to take place centuries after a major war that almost destroyed humanity. Most of their knowledge about the past (when a given episode's writer remembers that fact) is based on whatever books, photographs, films, etc. survived the war. In other words, it isn't just an example of this trope, it's the result of it too. This is not true in early (TOS) canon: Captain Kirk always speaks about how humanity narrowly averted this final war. |
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Discussed in the Drink to Britain series of Oz and James. While in Ireland, James criticizes what he calls "cod Oirishness" for the tourists, and taunts Oz with it when Oz claims to be part Irish; James thinks he's only doing so to make himself more interesting. It's subverted later on; when in a small village, Oz runs into a cousin who confirms Oz's mother actually is Irish, much to James's irritation. | |
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Two episodes of The Adventures of Robin Hood | |
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Spoofed in Goblin Hollow with minty Tam O'Shanter shakes -- like a tall, cool, creamy glass of toothpaste. | |
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Subverted in one arc of Hitman when Tommy visits Ireland. In a later flash-forward it's revealed there's a book about him that says while he was there he fought bravely alongside the IRA. The people that believe this are told by a real friend of Tommy that it's complete bollocks. | |
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The Fianna of Werewolf: The Apocalypse could easily cross into this territory. Descendants of Finn Maccumhail? Check. Known for their soulful bards? Check. Also known for their angry warriors? Check. It really didn't help that a lot of early books in the line talked about possible ties to the IRA. And their main Caerns are picked out of tourist books and bang in the middle of a popular tourist location - the non-celtic world heritage site Brú na Bóinne. They're also known for their magic booze. | |
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Aunt Nina of Lackadaisy Cats is the archetypal dour Irish matron. This St. Patrick's Day strip wonderfully contrasts the two sides of the Irish stereotype: the cheerful, potato-eating step-dancing side, and the glum, pious, strict side. Rocky occasionally addresses his Irish-American cousin jokingly with these stereotypes, with lines such as "Freckle-lad, my most favorite potato eater!" |
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Red Dead Redemption: The original gives us "Irish". The only reason John Marston tolerates his drunken, nun-threatening ass is because Irish can supply him with a Gatling gun. (In his defence, he thought they was doxies.) On the other hand, he's one of the rare black-haired Irishmen in fiction. The sequel gives us Sean McGuire, a far more sympathetic and positive example of an Irish character. He's one of the younger members of the Van Der Lin gang, a bit of a boisterous smart-ass, and something of a little brother figure to Arthur Morgan. |
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Canon Memphis from Fafner in the Azure: Dead Aggressor states she's from Dublin (Kazuki thinks it's in Germany). Hell, she tried to name the new recruits Fafners in Exodus after Celtic mythology. | |
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Used in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire with a little bit of tongue-in-cheek parody. Ireland are playing in the Quidditch World Cup and so series regular Seamus Finnigan (and his mother) are staying in a green tent draped with shamrocks. And the Ireland team have leprechauns as their mascot and wear green robes to play in. Otherwise played with in terms of Seamus himself. Although some of his dialogue has the odd 'me' instead of 'my' in there (and Stephen Fry and Jim Dale's narration on the audio books goes to town with it), he avoids most Irish stereotypes. He has a bit of a temper but is blond rather than red-haired. | |
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The New 52 incarnation of the Superman villain Silver Banshee, Siobhan Smythe, has quite a few of these traits. She speaks with a thick accent (substituting "ye" for "you" and "aye" for "yes"), has an interest in punk music, is surprisingly sentimental, and, while good-natured for the most part, definitely has a pugnacious streak. | |
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Padan Fain from The Wheel of Time books is effectively this, despite being from a different cycle of time and never having heard of Ireland. His dialogue is as Oirish as you can get without actually using the word "Begorrah". At least in the early appearances. | |
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Séamus McFly in Back to the Future Part III. His brother Martin fits the Fighting Irish trope, which serves as a cautionary tale he tells his descendant Marty McFly under the guise of Clint Eastwood. | |
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Subverted and parodied in I'm Alan Partridge, in an episode where Alan meets a couple of Irish television producers. They are, of course, not this trope in any way at all, but being the blinkered and prejudiced fool that he is Alan is unable to relate to them in any way beyond the lazy stereotypes he's familiar with. | |
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The Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Shore Leave" sees Captain Kirk face off against a recreation of his personal tormentor from Starfleet Academy, the very Oirish and boisterous Finnegan. His leitmotif even sounds like something out of Darby O'Gill and the Little People. | |
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In The Birds, there's a drunk man who's only contribution is to be Oirish and exclaim mystically that the bird attacks signal the end of the world. | |
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Also subverted again in The Boys with the Glaswegian Wee Hughie being mistaken for Irish (by a drunk "teenager" during a St Patrick's celebration). To try and get away from it (and other weirdness), he visits what seems to be the only bar around not floating in green beer, run by a tee-total Irishman who bemoans the "plastic paddy" image, throws out revelers wearing the green, and sells him a pint of Guinness with an obscenity written in the head. | |
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Darby O'Gill and the Little People | |
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Murder, She Wrote had a couple of Officer O'Hara characters over the years, but the Oirish stereotypes were ramped up in "The Celtic Riddle". When reviewing it on The Blizzard Of Odd, Colin Murphy noted that it had all the worst elements of "Diddly Ireland" mixed with South Central Los Angeles, culminating in the most ridiculous combination of both: The Drive-By-Swording. Notable for being a perfect storm of clichés, including mediaeval weaponry, dodgy accents, "Gaelic" and dark-haired "Black Irish" girls embroiled in romantic difficulty. |
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Aran Ryan in Punch-Out!! He isn't all that stereotypical though. He was a fairly generic fighter in Super Punch-Out!! but Punch-Out: Wii decided to make him completely fucking insane. | |
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In The DCU, Jack O'Lantern from the Global Guardians was an Irish superhero. Whenever he was shown in Ireland, it was in an idyllic green countryside dotted with small villages and inhabited by leprechauns and other fairies. | |
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Acknowledged In-Universe in 101 Dalmatian Street. When Fergus, an Irish Fox, is injured and stays in the Dalmatian's House, Triple-D perform a River Dance as entertainment for him. Fergus, however, is not impressed with what he refers to as "Highly Offensive Cultural Stereotyping", so Triple-D put on music which is more representative of Modern Irish Culture. | |
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Roy McManus from Shadow Hearts: From The New World. An ill-tempered, violent and power hungry Irish gang boss, McManus tried to seize up Chicago while Capone was locked in Alcatraz. He also had a most unrequited crush on Capone's sister Edna that led him to kidnap her. Sadly for both of them, Edna did not return his feelings and an enraged McManus pulled a gun and shot her dead. | |
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Father Ted: A deliberate Affectionate Parody written by two Irishmen. This is probably a factor in making the programme so wildly popular in Ireland. Rather than using foreign stereotypes of the Irish, the writers ramped up Truth in Television tropes and cultural stereotypes present within Ireland itself. Oireland tends to vary from painfully off-key to laughably bad, but this method created a spot-on hilarious caricature, making it arguably a subversion or outright aversion of this trope. | |
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One Saturday Night Live sketch features a game show titled "Kiss Me, I'm Irish!," in which a bachelor competes for the heart of three Irish lasses. Irish stereotypes abound, but the biggest is when it's revealed that the contestant is related to two of the three women and has even fooled around with them in the past. Aidy Bryant's character, the lone American of the group (she's Irish by heritage, but doesn't live there), is the only person who realizes it's gross, with the Irish girls, bachelor, and even host acting like it's par for the course (said host even remarks that the contestant nearly always picks one of his cousins!). | |
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Star Trek: Early Voyages: Captain Pike's yeoman and close friend Dermot Cusack, an Irishman with a well known and well deserved reputation as a rogue, is the Plucky Comic Relief for the first three issues, until he is killed by Talza on Rigel VII in "Nor Iron Bars a Cage". | |
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The Littles: In "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling", Henry and the Littles visit a little town in Ireland. A local man named Mr. Finnegan catches Binky in a leprechaun trap and mistakes him for a leprechaun. | |
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Pat O'Shea's children's book The Hounds of the Morrigan is mostly a genuinely well-written and atmospheric marrying of Irish myth and legend with modern characters - but for a few chapters it teeters dangerously on the bring of Disney-fied stage-Oirish. Having said this, it's the sort of children's book an adult can read and appreciate without shame. | |
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Sheamus, the "Celtic Warrior", who has the usual pale skin and has bright red hair. He avoids the usual dodgy Oirish accent though, when he's a bona fide Dubliner. In fact, Sheamus specifically wanted to avoid the typical Irish stereotypes. The fact that he's Irish is usually not mentioned beyond the Celtic Warrior Red Baron and the fact that he is the first Irish-born WWE champion, and his characterization tends to lean way more toward what "Celtic Warrior" sounds like. They do tend (well, JBL tended) to play up that the Irish "love to fight". And his moveset includes the "Irish Curse" backbreaker, the "Brogue Kick" and the cloverleaf, which, while an actual legit term, was probably incorporated for the name. |
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The IT Crowd has lazy, lovelorn Butt-Monkey Roy as one of the main characters. | |
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Mr. O'Reilly, the lazy, incompetent Irish construction worker on Fawlty Towers. Played by David Kelly, an actual Irishman, which makes it a bit better. He's also pretty popular with Irish viewers (considering he's hardly any less competent than the rest of the cast. | |
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Far and Away, particularly Tom Cruise's side of the story. He's a poor, plucky, hard-fightin' Irish farmer with a beautiful seaside plot and a beautiful, posh girl to fall in love with, not to mention support for the 'ra. A few scenes have brawling and drunkenness involved. However, Nicole Kidman's side shows some of the lesser-seen gentility of Irish society. The Irish-Americans portrayed later are also classic Irish-American archetypes. | |
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The Punisher has had two run-ins with the Irish bomber stereotype: the first where he goes to Belfast on the advice of an SAS friend of his (highlights include a guy two heads shorter than Frank calling him "wee man" then staring at his broken fingers in shock, and shooting up two opposed gang leaders and leaving an (empty) machine gun between the two), the other when a bunch of Irish-American mobsters start a gang war in New York over an inheritance (including a guy whose badly-timed bomb took off half his face and a dumbass who calls him a hero, then gets used by a Human Shield by him), only for them to be killed by said inheritance. | |
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Black Books, also co-written by Graham Linehan (see Father Ted above), has Irish Bernard Black as its main character. Played by Dylan Moran (who also co-wrote), the character's Irishness is not a big part of his character, but this trope is referenced on occasion by other characters. For example, American customers call him 'a Scotch man' in reference to the notorious vagueness many Americans have about the difference between Celtic cultures. On another occasion, Bernard's friend Fran makes up a traditional Irish song: '...And the English are alllll... bollocks.' Bernard does have a few 'Oirish' traits, though, like his borderline alcoholism (though his preferred tipple is wine, not stout), the ease with which he resorts to violence, his ability to speak at least some Gaelic and use of particularly Irish phrasings (but probably not the sort you'd find in classic Oireland, e.g. 'oh, stick it up your hole'. | |
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In Judge Dredd, the entire nation has been turned into a giant theme park based on inauthentic stereotypes of past Irish life. A terrorist group exists solely to stop foreign tourism so there'll be "no more leprechaun suits... no more bejasus and begorrah... no more potatoes... no more eejits calling us quaint". Even the Irish terrorists are stereotyped; they plant bombs at several locations crucial to the tourism economy, and the one bomb that was a total dud was planted at the Guinness brewery. Oh, and the potatoes? Even those aren't real. | |
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Mad Stephen from Braveheart. | |
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Dougie's father in What the Fu. Worth noting though that it's only Zac trying to imagine what may be going through Dougie's head at the time. | |
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Tapper Smurf in Empath: The Luckiest Smurf wears this trope as the village's bartender who just happens to be Christian. He averts the Fighting Irish trope, though, leaving it to his Brave Scot friend Duncan McSmurf. | |
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A Haunting had an episode set in Galway, the dramatised bits filmed in Maryland with terrible accents and unconvincing modern mock tudor US housing as a Galwegian council estate. Here's a rather honest take on it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdvhO3bFR4U | |
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EastEnders: They actually got into a bit of trouble over this. | |
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The entire point of Killinaskully is to play up this trope for all it's worth. | |
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Finian from Finian's Rainbow hails from Glocca Morra, which is based on "pixified fancies" of Ireland. Upon planting his crock of gold in the soil of the Deep South, he finds out a leprechaun has followed him there all the way from Ireland. That Glocca Morra is a fictitious locale is admitted in the play's final scene: | |
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Dumbledore's Army and the Year of Darkness: Seamus Finnegan gets turned into this, J. K. Rowling has said that naming the character "Seamus Finnegan" was pushing it a bit, but Thanfiction exaggerates the Irish stereotype. Example: Now consider that he didn't have anything resembling that thick an accent in canon. Oh, and he knows Druidic rituals, as well. Even worse, Slaugh has several sequences in an Ireland torn and devastated by the Troubles... even though it takes place three years after the end of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. For those who don't know the Harry Potter timeline, Deathly Hallows takes place in 1998, the year the Good Friday Agreement was signed; while it's ridiculous to say that brought an immediate end to all the fighting, the story doesn't seem to realize there was any sort of action at all. |
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Mad Sweeny, the Irish-American leprechaun from American Gods, loves to fight. He has lost the accent though, as he's been in the US too long. He's also something like 7 feet tall. | |
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The sequel gives us Sean McGuire, a far more sympathetic and positive example of an Irish character. He's one of the younger members of the Van Der Lin gang, a bit of a boisterous smart-ass, and something of a little brother figure to Arthur Morgan. | |
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The cartoon fox from Mary Poppins that gets hunted by a group of cartoon British hunters and their dogs. | |
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The protagonist of The Saboteur, Sean Devlin, is sadly a perfect storm of Oirish stereotypes. His accent, allegedly that of a man from Belfast, is not even close to the mark. Unsurprisingly he's voiced by an English actor. Much of his speech involves faux slang such as "top o' the morning", "to be sure" and various other turns of phrase no man from Belfast (or Ireland for that matter) has ever uttered. And finally Devlin is of course an explosives expert with a love of violence, womanizing and excessive drinking. | |
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Family Guy: Peter finds out that his real father is an Irishman, and heads to "McSwiggen Village, where the hills are green, the streams are clear, and the sweaters are so thick, even the boniest-fingered nun could poke you in the chest and it wouldn't bother you none!" A modern airport is shown when the Griffins arrive, with the runway completely covered in empty beer bottles. The local pub is called Wifey McBeaty's and Peter's father is the town drunk, which is an honoured position in Irish society. They lampshade the trope thus: An earlier episode double subverted the trope with the "Ireland Before Alcohol" Cutaway Gag. Ireland is shown to be an ultra futuristic society that has just discovered how to convert its population into pure energy. Then someone invents whiskey and everyone gets drunk and starts fighting. |
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The Irish R.M. had a series adaptation which skits, parodies, plays seriously and generally messes around with pre-independence (late Victorian until 1910) Ireland - in the little Irish town of Skebawn everyone is either drunk, or about to sell you a dud horse. The only tune played is 'Haste to the Wedding', and Irishmen are either lovable scamps or ruffians. However, it is actually kind hearted - the Irish villains are non-existent, the most unlikable characters are English (e.g. Lady Knox, when set against an Irish 'villain' like Tom Sheehy or Slipper. One of the main characters is Irish (in the twinkly-eyed scamp tradition) against the English straight-man, shebeens, pig's trotters, poteen and the like is trooped out mercilessly, but it is not at all malicious - quote [Slipper the groom] 'The English and the Irish understand each other like the fox and the hound,' [Lady Yeates] 'But which is which?' [Slipper] 'Ah well, if we knew that, we'd know everything!'. There is a Catholic Nationalist canon, and Roman Catholicism is skitted (the redoubtable Mrs Cadogan (pronounced kay-de-GAWN) is an example), but rather like Jeeves and Wooster, it avoids being offensive. | |
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has the Skellige Isles, which are an unusual pastiche of Oireland with Scandinavia. | |
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George of the Jungle: One Tom Slick story takes place in Ireland. The Irish are portrayed as cheapstakes to the point the race's winner will receive a plastic trophy and a bucket of pennies. The three Irish racers have surnames that start with "O'" and one of them mistakes Baron Otto Matic's mechanic Clutcher for a leprechaun just because he's short. To violate a year-ban, Baron Otto Matic creates an Irish persona named "Ott O'Matic". As Ott, he wears a red wig, a green outfit and says "Top of the morning". | |
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Star Trek: Voyager featured Fair Haven, a holodeck simulation of a rural Irish village. It's said to be "completely authentic" and created by Tom Paris, the ship's resident history buff, but still very much a Theme Park Version. Nonetheless displaying an astounding lack of cultural sensitivity on the part of the (usually pretty enlightened) Starfleet officers. Presumably Janeway was revealed to be of Irish descent (in the same episode) as an attempted justification (perhaps coincidentally Kate Mulgrew is herself an American of Irish descent.) The future of Star Trek is supposed to take place centuries after a major war that almost destroyed humanity. Most of their knowledge about the past (when a given episode's writer remembers that fact) is based on whatever books, photographs, films, etc. survived the war. In other words, it isn't just an example of this trope, it's the result of it too. This is not true in early (TOS) canon: Captain Kirk always speaks about how humanity narrowly averted this final war. |
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Parodied by Monkey Dust - a young man walks into a pub and sees the new landlord wearing an absurd leprechaun costume. When he asks why, he is told that it is now an "Oirish" pub. When he asks what happened to the previous landlord, who was Irish, he is told that he wasn't "Oirish" enough. Not to mention the movie of the "true story" of "Patrick O'Dobsky" (Ivan Dobsky). |
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Charmed (1998) features leprechauns in a few episodes. Their land is very much like The Theme Park Version of what Ireland is imagined like — green fields and rainbows everywhere. Their spells are even traditional Irish sayings. The leprechauns indeed say things like "top of the morning" and "laddie". Their spells may be traditional Irish sayings, but they've never heard an actual Irish person pronounce them. |
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Victor Mclaglen's characters of Sgt Mulcahy and Sgt Quincanon in John Ford's Cavalry Trilogy films are the drinking & brawling variety. In She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, a half dozen soldiers couldn't force him into the guard house, but a stern scolding from the CO's wife could. | |
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While she doesn't use an accent, Fiona from Burn Notice otherwise very much plays to American stereotypes by being a violent, totally chaotic ex-terrorist. She's also played by a British actress (Gabrielle Anwar). After the pilot (where she used an accent that would give most Dubliners an aneurysm), she adopted an American accent, ostensibly to better blend in, though it slips on occasion. | |
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Mission: Impossible had an episode titled "Banshee". While it did manage to establish that there are Protestants in Ireland, it managed to tick most of the other boxes by being set in a tiny village, have Irishmen who are willing to start fighting at the drop of a hat, and the IMF's plan relied on the superstitious nature of one of the main villains. | |
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A few chapters of Hellsing are set in Northern Ireland in what appears to be an abandoned factory in the fictional town of Badrick. This is where the first fight between Alucard and Anderson takes place. It's a reference to the religious disputes as the British, Protestant Hellsing forces, are there cleaning up a vampire attack, so the Vatican sends Anderson because Ireland is regarded as their territory, even though Northern Ireland is technically located in the United Kingdom. The funny thing about this is that Hellsing starts in the fall of 1998. The Good Friday Agreement was signed on April 10th, 1998, in Belfast, months before the altercation occurred. Granted, it really didn't take effect until December 2nd, 1999, but someone didn't send the Hellsing Organization and Section XIII the memo. |
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Jin from YuYu Hakusho has a very strong Irish accent in the English dub. It's meant to reflect his Tohoku accent in the original Japanese. | |
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Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers: In "The Last Leprechaun", Chip & Dale meet a mischievous, green-clad leprechaun king, a banshee named Druella O'Midas, and learn that rainbows do indeed end in leprechauns' pots of gold. | |
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Downton Abbey: Kieran Branson is less of a walking stereotype than most characters of the type, but is nevertheless a cheerful booze-sponge with an irreverent sense of humor, the gift o' the gab, no sense of propriety and a chip on his shoulder against the English in general and English aristocrats in particular. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: "Up the Long Ladder" features the Bringloidi, a colony of Irish settlers who are a blend between this and Space Amish, none of whom are played by actual Irish actors. Goes without saying that Irish actor Colm Meaney, who plays Chief O'Brien, hated this episode, and he later objected to a leprechaun appearing in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "If Wishes Were Horses" for this reason (Rumpelstiltskin was used instead). In commenting on this trope, he brought up his previous role in The Commitments as a more accurate representation of what Ireland was like than quaint villages. In "Sub Rosa", Dr. Crusher's grandmother dies on a planet settled by more Space Oirish (who were supposed to be Space Scottish, but, y'know) and there's a Virtual Ghost. |
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