History Main / FightingIrish

* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': Before he became a vampire, Angel was Liam, a hedonistic Irish man with a love women, alcohol and fighting. He caught Darla's eye when he fought off several men while drunk during a bar brawl.

** The prequel novel ''LightNovel/FateZero'' features another Irish Lancer, Diarmuid of the Love Spot, a hero from the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology, who carves up legions of demonic terrors and fights Berserker hand-to-hand. Unlike Cu Chulainn, he's not in it for a fight, however, and while he likes fighting as much as any other Servant he's not unusually fond of it.

* The University of Notre Dame, a Catholic university originally created for Midwesterners of Irish Catholic origin, calls its athletic teams the Fighting Irish. The team colors used to be green and gold, their mascot is a Leprechaun and their [[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball football]] team is the most well known and historically dominant teams in the NCAA.

--->'''[[KentBrockmanNews Kent Brockman]]:''' Drunkenness, fighting, destruction of property: are these really the qualities we associate with the Irish?

* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "Shore Leave", Kirk's old Academy classmate Finnegan (or rather a simulacrum of him on the planet the ''Enterprise'' visited in the episode) fits this trope as he gives Kirk a hard time taunting him into a fight.

-->-- ''Tim Finnegan's Wake'', traditional Irish ballad

* According to his bio in ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters99'', [[FinalBoss Krizalid]]'s home country is Ireland. He also regularly wears a combat suit analyzing data to use in battle, and more importantly, is so much of an SNKBoss that ''SNK themselves apologized for making him too difficult''.

* The University of Norte Dame, a Catholic university originally created for Midwesterners of Irish Catholic origin, calls its athletic teams the Fighting Irish. The team colors used to be green and gold, their mascot is a Leprechaun and their [[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball football]] team is the most well known and historically dominant teams in the NCAA.

* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': Patrick Fitzwilliam and William Fitzpatrick,[[note]]And we've heard the jokes, so SAVE IT![[/note]] hosts of "Top O' the Mornin'", regularly punched walls.

* Steve Rogers, better known as ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, was born to poor Irish immigrants.
* Matt Murdock, a.k.a. Comicbook/{{Daredevil}} is the biggest example of this trope in comics. The son of an Irish-American boxer, "Battlin' Jack" Murdock, Matt Murdock prowls the rooftops of Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood as Daredevil. He's an expert martial artist and boxer, and generally not someone you'd want to face in a fight. Matt is also portrayed as being devoutly Roman Catholic, another famous Irish cultural trait.

* In ''Film/Paddington2'', the prison cook - and apparently the meanest and toughest guy there - is a grouchy Irishman named Knuckles (or possibly [[RougeAnglesOfSatin Nuckel's) [=McGinty=], portrayed by Creator/BrendanGleeson. Naturally, Paddington's influence softens him up over the course of the story, revealing him to be a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.

* A downplayed example in ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009'': The music playing during Sherlock's boxing match is a traditional Irish song performed by Irish folk band Music/TheDubliners.

* ''Series/BurnNotice'': Ex-IRA fighter Fiona Glenanne is quick to recommend that any problem be solved by charging in with [[MoreDakka guns]] and [[StuffBlowingUp bombs]] blazing, especially when it involves [[BerserkButton children being endangered]]. Her suggestions usually get shot down in favor of something less conspicuous, but when the firepower's needed Fi is always ready to provide.

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal, the nation of Hergen is a FantasyCounterpartCulture of Ireland and as can be expected takes all the clichés, including this one, UpToEleven. [[TheLadette Shauna O'Hennigan]], a local variation on a theme of CatholicSchoolGirlsRule - and her wider family - are typical of the Fighting Irish of the Disc.

* ''VideoGame/{{Commandos}}'': Jack [[KnifeNut "The Butcher" O'Hara]] is a prime example, being the resident BloodKnight and OneManArmy.

* Literature/GauntsGhosts are an Imperial Guard regiment from TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 with a background theme of the Irish Wild Geese [[{{Scotireland}} mixed with]] the '45 - their planet is destroyed/taken by the enemy, and all they have left is war.

** In their retelling of Irish primal legend ''The Tain'', they assert that the one thing which will persist past the end of all other things is the Irish tendency to violence and bloodshed. [[note]]as they are an Irish band, this is NWordPrivileges: an assertion like this coming from anybody who isn't Irish would, of course, be a racist prejudice and reinforcing a stereotype...[[/note]]

-->''not so much teachers as fighters, and what we teach is how to fight!''

-->[[TheStarsAreGoingOut And when the stars go out]],
-->You can hear me shout,
-->Two heads are better than one, a hundred heads are so much better than none!

* Music/{{Horslips}}, in ''The Book of Invasions'', take the primal myth of how the Irish came to Ireland and set it to music. The key song ''The Power And The Glory", with its OminousPipeOrgan theme, has the lines

* The Music/{{Horslips}}, in their retelling of Irish primal legend ''The Tain'', assert that the one thing which will persist past the end of all other things is the Irish tendency to violence and bloodshed. [[note]]as they are an Irish band, this is NWordPrivileges: an assertion like this coming from anybody who isn't Irish would, of course, be a racist prejudice and reinforcing a stereotype...[[/note]]

* In “A Couple of Blaggards”, the brothers McCourt claim that no real Irish wake is complete without a brawl, even citing one where the distraught widow cried “They didn’t love him, nobody fought!”

* Literature/GauntsGhosts are an Imperial Guard regiment from Warhammer40000 with a background theme of the Irish Wild Geese [[Scotireland mixed with]] the '45 - their planet is destroyed/taken by the enemy, and all they have left is war.