Line #260 Main/Oireland


1	->'''Gussie:''' Why do I have to end every sentence with "Begorrah"?\
2	'''Bertie:''' My dear Gussie, that is how people think Irish people talk.
3	-->-- ''Series/JeevesAndWooster''
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5	Lots of Americans have a fondness for UsefulNotes/{{Ireland}}. This is understandable, considering there are [[UsefulNotes/TheIrishDiaspora 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.
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7	[[{{Scotireland}} Unfortunately, most people in Hollywood can't tell the difference between Ireland and Scotland]]. Some, however, like to [[ShownTheirWork 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 BritishSeries made before the Irish stopped being a punchline there. Hence, you end up with Oireland.
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9	This trope goes waaaaaaaay back to at least the days of [[FakeIrish stage Irishmen]] in eighteenth-century British theatre. Brought back to life by Creator/JohnFord in the iconic Creator/JohnWayne film ''Film/TheQuietMan'' -- 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 ''Film/TheRisingOfTheMoon'', filmed entirely in Ireland with the Abbey Theatre players).
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11	While elements of this character may also be seen in {{Southie\|s}}, ''never'' try to argue over whether Irish-Americans (or Irish-Canadians, for that matter) should be considered Irish. [[FlameWar 'Twill nae end well]].
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13	!!!Features of Oireland include:
14	* More sheep than the LandDownUnder, even though most Irish farms were arable until the late 19th century, when a lot switched to cattle. Sheep farming only really happens on the bad land in the West (in the British Isles themselves this is much more of a [[UsefulNotes/{{Wales}} Welsh stereotype]]).
15	* Overwhelmingly Catholic: you'd be hard pressed to find a reference to Ireland's sizable Protestant population in Oireland unless the story is explicitly ''about'' religion or UsefulNotes/TheTroubles, still less the admittedly small [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Ireland Irish Jewish]] population, non-religious groups, or [[UsefulNotes/TheNewIrish newer groups like the Irish Muslims]]. (This one is TruthInTelevision, somewhat.)
16	** This is partly their own fault. As Walter Bryan notes, it was a Protestant who wrote the song lauding the Good Old Oirish Priest "Father O'Flynn".
17	* The substitution of me for my, such as "This is me house." There is a bit of TruthInTelevision to this one.
18	* Everybody's name starts with "Mac", "Mc", or "O'". In reality, the most common surname in Ireland is "Murphy", which appears pretty frequently in fiction. The second most common is "Kelly", which can also be fairly common in fiction, although not necessarily in relation to Ireland. (And "Mac" or "Mc" is more common in UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} than in Ireland.)
19	* Wrinkly auld farmers greet travellers with a hearty, "Top o' the moornin' to ye." While some stereotypes have some merit, this has absolutely none. No Irish person ever says "top o' the mornin'". EVER. Unless they're ridiculing those who think they do. [[note]] Or if they're WebVideo/{{Jacksepticeye}}.[[/note]] This probably comes from ''Barr na maidine ort'' which is a southern regionalism. No one would ever say this in English. Real Irish people say "Hiya," or "How are ya," or comment on the weather.
20	* Nobody says "yes." Instead, expect to hear, "aye" or something like, "Ah, to be shoor, to be shoor and begorrah."[[note]]Begorrah is an 18th-century substitute for "begod", i.e., by God, to avoid taking His name in vain. Nobody says this today.[[/note]] In truth, a relic of the Irish language where one expresses agreement by restating, such as: "Did you see the film?" "I did." "Is it good?" "It is."(Irish did not have the words for "yes" and "no" until "sea" and "ní hea" were coined as neologisms[[note]] Well, contractions, but let's keep it simple.[[/note]].)
21	** Another remnant of Irish language sentence structure is found in sentences like "It's a fool you are, Sean O'Flaherty." To get really technical, it's verb-subject-object. They usually don't go as far as ''Went I to the pub with O'Malley, a pint of Guinness to have", although this is quite proper; but you will hear that syntax in songs. (See below for notes on what kind of beer they really drink.)
22	* Friendly or flighty {{leprechaun}}s frequently being caught in bushes. Where other cultures state the TheFairFolk as being benevolent and mischievous at worst, Irish folklore has plenty of stories with morals about how nasty they really are. However, there are also a fair few Irish stories with the benevolent/mischievous Leprechauns and Fairies.
23	* [[FightingIrish Brawling, usually good-naturedly]], at the drop of a hat. The Irish are often portrayed as very passionate, quick to anger, but also quick to laugh and calm back down again. Some TruthInTelevision to this one.
24	** On a related note, boxing in the early to mid-20th century was associated with the Irish. Even now, Irish boxers do well at the Olympic Games, with female boxers such as Katie Taylor and Kellie Harrington as notable recent successes. Not to mention that current heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, though born and raised in England, is ethnically an UsefulNotes/{{Irish Traveller\|s}}.
25	* There are startlingly frequent jokes about [[DomesticAbuse beaten wives]] played for "quaint" laughs, ''especially'' in American depictions, where discrimination against Irish-Americans brought about stereotypes of drunkenness and violence. The wives are often portrayed getting back at the men in one wacky way or another. Naturally, in real life Ireland treats domestic violence just as seriously as anywhere else, and Irish women did tend to be fiercely independent.
26	* [[FieryRedhead Red hair]] and the related pale, freckled skin, often [[SignificantGreenEyedRedhead paired with]] green eyes. Although green eyes are not particularly common, it is more common in Ireland than anywhere else. The stereotype is so ingrained that some people (mostly outside of Ireland) still argue that "black Irish", Irish people with [[PeopleOfHairColor dark hair]], are descendants of Spanish Armada survivors or related to the Basque people, though genetic evidence largely goes against this. (Small, dark Irish people are more likely ''firbolg'', descendants of native Picts.) Considering the vast majority of Irish people are dark haired this is a pretty ridiculous myth. It's the fair, red-haired Irish people who may have come from elsewhere (probably Scandinavia), but this is still controversial and the subject of complex studies by ethnologists and linguists.
27	* Potatoes. Lots of potatoes. After their introduction from the Americas, the calorie-dense potatoes became a staple for the European poor and actually created a population boom. It was the main diet of the Irish peasantry due to British policy reducing the size of family plots, their cheapness and (ironically) their lack of susceptibility to disease. Potatoes became permanently ingrained in Irish stereotypes when the UsefulNotes/IrishPotatoFamine caused a massive influx of Irish immigrants to America.
28	* Corned beef with cabbage: This is a cultural trait of Irish-Americans. In Ireland, people eat [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon_and_cabbage bacon and cabbage]].[[note]]Ironically enough, Ireland ''was'' in fact a major exporter of corned beef-- which nobody in Ireland could actually afford, making it something of a luxury that Irish-Americans were able to procure more easily, combined with many of the butchers around recent Irish immigrants being Jewish and therefore not selling bacon [[/note]]
29	* Everyone lives on a [[{{Arcadia}} farm or in a tiny village]], with UsefulNotes/{{Dublin}} as the only major city. Cities like Cork, Limerick and Galway go completely unmentioned.
30	* Lots of Irish step dancing, which is often called Theatre/{{Riverdance}} even though that's the title of one particular stage show that made it famous in America, though it is only loosely based on actual Irish step dancing. Also worth noting that Michael Flatley, the dancer / choreographer behind the previously mentioned show, is actually American-born, not from Ireland (although he has Irish ancestry).
31	* Music will tend to be traditional Irish music like that heard at a ceilí, and is almost always a jig or reel. If not that, it will probably be a Celtic punk band such as Music/FloggingMolly, the Music/DropkickMurphys, or the Pogues, though many of these bands aren't based in Ireland (though both Flogging Molly and the Pogues have at least one Irish-born member). Ireland is a modern country with plenty of contemporary music in its history, such as Music/{{U2}}, Music/ThinLizzy, Music/MyBloodyValentine and many more.
32	* Green clothing all around: green hats and vests, and sometimes green trousers as well. Ireland is known as the Emerald Isle for its lush green pastures, so green is typically seen as Ireland's official color. Wearing green clothing, however, is strictly a St. Patrick's Day tradition among Irish-Americans. In Ireland, the Protestant ruling class (whose sectarian color was famously orange) once discriminated against Catholics by passing laws prohibiting "the wearin' o' the green."
33	* Oirish people are all poor, or at the very least come from a working-class background. This view was obviously caused by the mass migration of lower class Irish workers into America in the 19th century (prior to this most Irish Americans were actually Protestants who tended to be better off). From 1995 until roughly 2007, Ireland's economy became the booming [[UsefulNotes/TheCelticTiger Celtic Tiger]] with one of the highest standards of living in the world, though since then it's crashed hard.
34	* Post-[[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles Troubles]], you may also get some form of reference to "the Hated British." Though in reality you're more likely to hear them referred to as "the Auld Enemy" and this is usually in relation to sporting rivalry rather than genuine animosity. You'll probably find the odd person with this attitude in a conservative small town, or else among particularly patriotic kids.
35	* Any Irish character in an action movie -- good guy or bad guy -- will be a former (or current) member of the IRA. There's about a 90% chance that they'll be an IrishExplosivesExpert.
36	* [[GratuitousForeignLanguage Gaeilge gan ghá]]. In reality, while Irish is designated as the national language, the language that most Irish people actually ''speak'' is English. Only 36% are fluent in Irish, while 94% are fluent in English. Most who speak both languages have English as their first language. And contrary to expectations, outside a Gaeltacht fluent Irish speakers are more likely to be urban and under 35 than elderly and rural.
37	* Sentimentality. Lots and lots of sentimentality. In particular, when combined with a selection of the above the Oirish people are generally presented as a canny and friendly folk (the word 'quaint' tends to pop up a lot) with a cheerful song in their hearts and a mischievous twinkle in their eyes, expressing their simple-yet-wise philosophy that's as old as the hills and informed with the magic and mystery of the ages and the FairFolk, just waiting for some poor outsider who's lost sight of the ''really'' important things in life that they can educate, and other such horribly trite cliches; think an Emerald Isle version of the MagicalNegro. If you were to base your understanding of the Irish solely on the amount of times this rather over-sentimentalized depiction has popped up, the whole damn country can start to look rather insufferably twee. Of course, there IS some TruthInTelevision to this one too, but nowhere near to that extent.
38	* ''Everybody'' drinks Guinness to the point where it could have its own trope. In reality, lager and cider are far more popular in Ireland, especially amongst younger people, as is Irish pale/red ale (e.g. Smithwick's). Other brands of stout (such as Murphy's or Beamish) are ignored in fiction. That said, Guinness ''is'' popular in its Greater Dublin home, while Murphy's and Beamish are popular in western Ireland (hence the prominence of Guinness--non-Irish tend to ignore Cork). And it's never brought up that a ''very'' Republican character mightn't touch Guinness at all, as the Guinness dynasty were all prominent Unionists.[[note]]This one is very much a fantastical stereotype these days, as Guinness is just owned by MegaCorp Diageo, but once it was surprisingly prominent.[[/note]]
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40	The only one feature of Oireland that does resemble real Ireland is the huge reputation for drinking, particularly with Guinness. In truth, Ireland doesn't even have the highest average alcohol consumption in Europe; that honor goes to the Czech Republic (to be fair, [[VodkaDrunkenski Slavic stereotypes also echo this to some extent]]). And people in Ireland consume drinks other than Guinness. Indeed, beer and ale are actually transplants from England; the "traditional" Irish spirit is whiskey (and that's spelled with an "e," thank you, not "whisky" like Scottish stuff).[[note]]Incidentally, this difference dates from the 19th century, when Irish and American distillers changed the spelling of their product to distinguish it from the Scottish stuff, which at the time was renowned for being cheap and generally bad. Thus both American and Irish whiskey is spelled with an "e." Canada, which got its whisky-making start much later and under Scottish tutelage, uses "whisky." American distillers, on the other hand, were mostly Scots-Irish--i.e. the descendants Ulster Scots and other forms of Scottish Presbyterian transplants, like a whole hell of a lot of the distillers in Ireland. Somewhat peculiarly, one can even detect this in the flavor and appearance of the spirit: good Irish whiskey and American bourbon are both lighter in color and taste remarkably alike for being made from totally different grains and in different kinds of barrels, while a good Canadian whisky will taste a bit like a Scotch (especially if you factor in that the Canadian whisky was made from rye and the Scotch from barley), and is darker in color. TheMoreYouKnow![[/note]]
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42	See also FakeIrish for when an 'Irish' character is being played by an American or British actor and may or may not be Oirish.
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45	!!Examples
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49	'''Set in, or having episodes in, Oireland'''
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51	[[folder:Advertising]]
52	* For most Americans, their first exposure to Oirishness comes via Lucky the Leprechaun, mascot for the breakfast cereal Lucky Charms, a particularly vile concoction that feels a bit like taking antacid medication in milk and, if left too long, eventually dissolves into bruise-coloured sludge. His cry of "They're always ahfter me Looky Chahrms!" has become a clarion call for all things Oirish in the States.
53	** Especially laughable as, aside from limited imports, Lucky Charms cereal is not even marketed in Ireland, or many areas at all outside the United States.
54	* Another excellent example comes from the Irish Spring brand of soap. Since it was first sold in 1972, their commercials have relied on some stereotype or another.
55	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7McgAX-3XUE "My mate Sean throws big rocks for a living, 'cause that's a thing here in Ireland."]]
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58	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
59	* A few chapters of ''Manga/{{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.
60	** 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.
61	* ''Anime/{{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 SceneryPorn.
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65	%%%* ''Fiddle O'Diddle''
66	* Being Northern Irish, Creator/GarthEnnis often explores the various iterations of this trope (and often ruthlessly makes fun of the more embarrassing, unrealistic or trite elements):
67	** In ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'', the ''entire nation'' has been turned into [[TheThemeParkVersion 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 [[spoiler:potatoes? Even those aren't real.]]
68	** Subverted in one arc of ''ComicBook/{{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.
69	** The [[ComicBook/{{Spawn}} Medieval Spawn]]/ComicBook/{{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 [[AuthorTract complaining loudly about how leprechauns contributes to Irish stereotypes.]]
70	** Also subverted again in ''ComicBook/TheBoys'' with the Glaswegian Wee Hughie being [[{{Scotireland}} 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.
71	** ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'' 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 HumanShield by him), only for them to be killed by said inheritance.
72	* {{Lampshade\|Hanging}}d in the 67th issue of Creator/PeterMilligan's run on ''ComicBook/ShadeTheChangingMan'', where Shade visits an American film production shot on location in Ireland. Only one of the cast is shown to be Irish, the rest hired from around England, but all of them scoff at the ridiculousness of the film and their roles.
73	* In Franchise/TheDCU, Jack O'Lantern from the ComicBook/GlobalGuardians 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.
74	* ''ComicBook/StarTrekEarlyVoyages'': Captain Pike's yeoman and close friend Dermot Cusack, an Irishman with a well known and well deserved reputation as a rogue, is the PluckyComicRelief for the first three issues, until he is killed by Talza on Rigel VII in "Nor Iron Bars a Cage".
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78	* ''Film/DarbyOGillAndTheLittlePeople''
79	* ''Film/TheQuietMan'', 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 Creator/MaureenOHara. 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.
80	* Also by Creator/JohnFord, ''Film/TheRisingOfTheMoon'' consists of three short plays based on stories by Irish writers, filmed entirely on location and starring the Abbey Players. "A Minute's Wait" is especially Oirish, with feisty train personnel, lots of drinking, repeated discomfiting of a stuffy British couple, storytelling, singing, dancing and the local hurling team.
81	* ''Film/TheMatchmaker'', featuring an American (Creator/JaneaneGarofalo) trying to do some genealogy for her boss in a town on the coast of Oireland. They play up the stereotypes, but there is also subversion, especially in scenes like the crotchety old bastard on Inis Mór who [[spoiler: swears at the protagonists in Irish before letting them into a quite nice house, mentions that he already gave this information over the phone the previous night, and offers them a cappucino.]]
82	* ''Film/PSILoveYou'', the film of the book by Cecilia Ahern- contains sheep, stone walls, rolling green hills, a rendition of Fairytale of New York after a funeral, and a cringe inducing Oirish accent by Gerard Butler, a man from Glasgow. So much so that an Irish watch of it in the vein of Buzzfeed-style "X watch Y" videos resulted in the comment that the only thing he got right was the pronunciation of "Dun Laoghaire" (Done Leary, for the record).
83	* Played jaw-droppingly straight in the Creator/AmyAdams romcom ''Film/{{Leap Year\|2010}}'' - superstitious elderly rural locals spouting cliches, bar brawls, tiny villages, cattle-blocked roads, ceilí bands, claddagh rings... it's impossible to ''dislike'' a film with Amy Adams in the lead role but you'd never believe it was made in 2009. (It also has an ''imaginative'' approach to Irish geography - seemingly [[ArtisticLicenseGeography the fastest way to reach Dublin by boat from Wales is via Cork.]])
84	* The Eddie Griffen comedy ''Film/IrishJam'' that also starred Anna Friel. The story involves am African American winning an Irish pub in a raffle somehow and who then has to save the village from the clutches of an evil landlord. The film is filled with such hideously bad stereotypes of Ireland that it wasn't even filmed in Ireland and contained not a single Irish actor (Friel has an Irish father but was born and grew up in England.) Empire magazine reviewed it mentioning that "presumably, any attempts to mount stereotypes this broad in actual Ireland would lead to kneecappings and punishment-beatings"
85	* ''Film/FarAndAway'', particularly Creator/TomCruise'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, Creator/NicoleKidman's side shows some of the lesser-seen gentility of Irish society. The Irish-Americans portrayed later are also classic Irish-American archetypes.
86	* You see some of this in the Cloncraig scenes of ''Film/TheStoryOfEstherCostello''. A bit more realistic version, showing grinding poverty, drenching rain, and pigs, not sheep. Esther was made blind and deaf in an explosion of stored weapons from "The Troubles" (1912-1922 version). The film even has Denis O'Dea as kindly old Father Devlin. Heather Sears (British) plays Esther with a soft Irish accent for her few lines at the very end. Esther's charity has shamrocks, girls in green outfits, and its theme song is a cheery version of "Wearing of the Green".
87	* ''Film/TheSecretOfRoanInish'': 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.
88	* ''Wild Mountain Thyme'' combines some of the worst Oirish stereotypes with some of the [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent worst attempts at Irish accents ever put to film]] with Creator/EmilyBlunt and Creator/ChristopherWalken being the worst offenders and even Jamie Dornan, an ''actual Irish actor'' (albeit from the North, which has several distinctive accents of its own) butchering the accent. Highlights include Blunt's character being wooed by the obligatory token American, an AmbiguousTimePeriod for Ireland (somewhere between 1950 and 1980) with an apparently modern setting for America, Blunt being covered in shit in Ireland but completely clean in America, and some stupidly awkward and unnatural dialogue ("It was him who kissed me!"). Naturally, it caused uproar in Ireland when the [[https://youtu.be/we8g99pIYW8 trailer]] was released. The director tried to head off criticism of the accents in particular by claiming no one would understand the characters if the accents were authentic - and "you have to make the accent more accessible to a global audience". To top it all off, "Wild Mountain Thyme", the song the title references, is about ''Scotland'', not Ireland!
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92	* Creator/WilliamShakespeare and his fellow Elizabethan dramatists were among the first to record the Oirish stereotype in literature, albeit in a markedly less affectionate form than its modern equivalent. Shakespeare describes the Irish as "rough, rug-headed kernes" with "bloudy devilish hand[s]". His notorious Oirish character, [=MacMorris=] from ''Theatre/HenryV'', declares, "Of my nation! What ish my nation? Ish a villain, and a bastard, and a knave, and a rascal. What ish my nation? Who talks of my nation?" Presumably the Oirish stereotype then was that all Irish spoke like Creator/SeanConnery. This unflattering depiction is largely due to the fact that England was facing numerous uprisings from the native Irish population, something they obviously ensured would [[UsefulNotes/OliverCromwell never]], [[UsefulNotes/HanoverStuartWars ever]], [[UsefulNotes/TheIrishRevolution ever]], ''[[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles ever]]'' happen again.
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94	* ''Series/TheIrishRM''
95	* ''Castle Rackrent''
96	* The whole book ''Sissi in Ireland'' by Claire Madras. Well, it's ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
97	* Pat O'Shea's children's book ''Literature/TheHoundsOfTheMorrigan'' 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.
98	* In Creator/MichaelFlynn's ''[[Literature/SpiralArm The January Dancer]]'', an entire planet models itself on the stereotype for the tourist trade, even though by the time humanity's that spread out this far, everyone's descended from everyone on Earth.
99	* Creator/RayBradbury, who actually lived in Ireland while working with Creator/JohnFord on ''Film/MobyDick'', has several stories about Oireland and Oirish people.[[note]]Bradbury's Irish characters have been described as all sounding like Barry Fitzgerald reciting Sean O'Casey.[[/note]] Rain, drinking, rain, fighting, rain, grand storytelling, poems and songs, rain and Catholics are all present and accounted for. For some reason, all these stories involve a gentle but firm GayAesop.
100	* Creator/JamesJoyce's entire body of work both celebrates and deplores the tendency of Irish people to [[StopBeingStereotypical fulfill their own Oirish stereotypes]], as well as giving you a grounding in where those stereotypes come from, along with turn-of-the-century Irish daily speech.
101	* “The Anglo-Irish Murders” by Ruth Dudley Edwards (One of her Amiss/Troutbeck mysteries) upends the stereotypes by featuring a political-cultural conference where the English and American participants haplessly try to deal with the reality of the “Celtic fringe”. (But with some self-conscious Oirish characters in the offing.) And people from every county have something nasty to say about people from some other county.
102	* Averted in the UrbanFantasy ''{{Literature/Moonflowers}}''. While Cloncarrig is certainly a tourist town by the Cliffs of Moher, the inhabitants like poking fun at what tourists expect, and there's a lot of ugly things lurking around. TheFairFolk are religiously feared in the rural areas, and TheWildHunt is terrorizing the Asian-American Alima Song and her family. Christian/pagan tensions are mentioned a couple of times, and the related homophobia that Owen O'Luain faces has reached violence at least twice--once in the past, when the town [[ChangelingTale claimed he was half-Folk and tried to kill him]], and then in the current time when people in Galway have heard of it [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown and try to finish the job.]] Brighid Brennan, the friendly blonde nurse, [[spoiler: has only told two characters that she's a lesbian thanks to witnessing her friend's troubles.]]
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106	* ''Series/FatherTed'': A deliberate AffectionateParody 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 TruthInTelevision 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.
107	* ''Series/{{Ballykissangel}}'':''Jesus Christ'', Ballykissangel. Doubly so as it's made by the BBC. It was at least filmed on location in Wicklow.
108	* ''Series/EastEnders'': They actually got into a bit of trouble over this.
109	* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' 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 [[TheThemeParkVersion Theme Park Version]].
110	** 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.)
111	** The future of ''Franchise/StarTrek'' is supposed to take place centuries after a [[AfterTheEnd 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.
112	*** This is not true in early (TOS) canon: Captain Kirk always speaks about how humanity narrowly averted this final war.
113	* ''Series/BlessMeFather'': 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.
114	* ''Series/RelicHunter''
115	* ''Series/MurderSheWrote'' had a couple of OfficerOHara characters over the years, but the Oirish stereotypes were ramped up in "The Celtic Riddle". When reviewing it on ''Series/TheBlizzardOfOdd'', Colin Murphy noted that it had all the worst elements of "Diddly Ireland" mixed with South Central UsefulNotes/LosAngeles, culminating in the most ridiculous combination of both: The Drive-By-Swording.
116	** Notable for being a perfect storm of clichés, including mediaeval weaponry, dodgy accents, "Gaelic" and dark-haired "Black Irish" girls embroiled in romantic difficulty.
117	* ''Series/ImAlanPartridge'': Not set in Ireland but the title character tries to dispel pretty much every stereotype listed above to a couple of RTÉ executives, starting off innocuous but getting more offensive and topped off by asking about the Great Famine over breakfast.
118	---> I think people are saying 'yes, there's more to Ireland than this'. Good slogan for the tourist board; ''[[BriefAccentImitation there's more to Oireland DAN DIS]].''
119	* ''Series/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles'', 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 [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_O%27Casey 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.
120	* Two episodes of ''Series/TheAdventuresOfRobinHood''
121	* The beginning of ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' Season 2. [[spoiler: 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.
122	* The entire point of ''Series/{{Killinaskully}}'' is to play up this trope [[RefugeInAudacity for all it's worth]].
123	* There's an episode of ''Series/JeevesAndWooster'' 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.
124	* ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'': 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.
125	* Played for laughs in a sketch on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' when Creator/LiamNeeson guest-starred in 2004, in a sketch called "Ya Call This A House, Do Ya?", a parody of speedy home improvement shows like ''Series/ExtremeMakeoverHomeEdition.'' "Buildin' Finn [=McQuinn=]" and his team sent Neeson's character down the pub while they basically moved furniture around and drank beers.
126	* ''Series/TheIrishRM'' 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.
127	* Discussed in the ''Drink to Britain'' series of ''Series/OzAndJames''. 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.
128	* ''Series/AHaunting'' 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
129	* ''Series/MissionImpossible'' 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.
130	* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "The Little People of Killany Woods", Liam O'Shaughnessy is a lazy, shiftless Irishman with a well-deserved reputation for telling [[TallTale 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 {{Leprechaun}}s in Killany Woods - which turn out to be [[LittleGreenMen aliens]] - and [[FightingIrish throws him out of the pub head first]].
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133	[[folder:Theatre]]
134	* Sean O'Casey's ''Juno And the Paycock'' is ''the'' Oirish play, taking place in a tenement during the UsefulNotes/TheIrishRevolution. Heck, it's even referenced in the title. (Lorraine Hansberry would remake the play with a RaceLift for ''Theatre/ARaisinInTheSun''.)
135	* Basil Hood's operetta "The Emerald Isle" (score begun by Sullivan, finished by Edward German) exaggerates this, underlined in the songs "I'm descended from Brian Boru" and "Have you met a man in debt" (sentimental) and "If you wish to pass as an Irish type" (lampshading the stereotypes); and the chorus repeatedly reminds us that "Saint Patrick was a broth of a boy." However, English snobbery is also skewered. The Lord Lieutenant's idea of "civilizing" the Irish is bribing people to recite "The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck".
136	* Resoundingly averted in ''John Bull's Other Island'' by Creator/GeorgeBernardShaw, which seeks to awaken Broadbent (in the play) and the audience (in the Preface) to the utter wrongness of the stereotypes. "Melancholy Celtic race! That sort of thing does more harm than ten Coercion Acts!"
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139	[[folder:Video Games]]
140	* Both played straight and subverted in the first ''VideoGame/BrokenSword'' 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'.
141	* ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'' has the Skellige Isles, which are an unusual pastiche of Oireland with [[HornyVikings Scandinavia.]]
142	[[/folder]]
143
144	[[folder:Webcomics]]
145	* ''WebComic/OiTalesOfBardicFury'' is set in a psychedelic, [[AnachronismStew anachronism-laden]] version of Iron Age Ireland.
146	[[/folder]]
147
148	[[folder:Western Animation]]
149	* ''{{WesternAnimation/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987}}'', in the episode "The Irish Jig is Up". The animation of this series was actually produced by Fred Wolf Films [[ShoutOut Dublin]] at the time.
150	* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
151	** 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:
152	--->'''Stewie:''' Did we mention all the political, economic, and religious disputes that have torn Ireland apart for decades?\
153	'''Brian:''' Nope. We made them a bunch of drunken redheads.\
154	'''Stewie:''' [[SarcasmMode Ah. Groundbreaking.]]
155	** An earlier episode double subverted the trope with the "Ireland Before Alcohol" CutawayGag. 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.
156	* [[CluelessAesop The Belfast sequence]] from the ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'' episode "If It's Doomsday, It Must Be Belfast" was quite possibly the single most offensive example of both this trope and UsefulNotes/TheTroubles, making the struggle between Catholics and Protestants look like [[Theatre/WestSideStory The Jets against The Sharks]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQJrovKgrTw Highlights can be seen here]]. Special points for the incomprehensible, cod-''Germanic'' accents, the complete failure to accurately explain ''why'' there's resentment between the two groups beyond "they just hate each other", the almost-instant reconciliation between the two, and the foundation of a pan-religious bakery.
157	* Parodied by ''WesternAnimation/MonkeyDust'' - 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.
158	** Not to mention the movie of the "true story" of "Patrick O'Dobsky" (Ivan Dobsky).
159	* ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'': 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.
160	* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'', set on [[ItsAlwaysMardiGrasInNewOrleans 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...
161	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' does this every so often:
162	** The most JustForFun/{{egregious}} example may be "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS20E14InTheNameOfTheGrandfather 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 FC[[note]]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[[/note]] seen [[http://i42.tinypic.com/dnfypk.jpg here]]. The episode is a [[SubvertedTrope subversion of the trope]] as the town has become a [[UsefulNotes/TheCelticTiger bustling, modern metropolis]] where no one has time to go drinking. [[spoiler: [[DoubleSubvertedTrope 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, [[StatusQuoIsGod 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.
163	*** 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".
164	*** The trope is even more subverted when the typically Oirish pubkeeper, played by genuine Irishman Colm Meaney (''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''), 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.
165	** 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.
166	** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS20E1SexPiesAndIdiotScrapes 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."
167	** 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."
168	** The same Oirishman appeared in Whacking Day, when it was explained that the holiday had started as "an excuse to beat up the Irish".
169	*** "Oi took many a lump! But 'twas all in good fun."
170	** 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.
171	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' 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.
172	* ''WesternAnimation/GeorgeOfTheJungle'': 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".
173	* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'', appropriately titled "Mighty [=McMario=] and the Pot O'Gold," took place in the "Shamrock Kingdom," one of the [[PlanetOfHats many themed areas]] in the Mushroom Kingdom; the place was almost entirely countryside, with Stonehenge-like structures and roadside inns scattered about. The plot sees Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool, and Toad coming across Murphy, a leprechaun whose [[BornLucky inherent good luck]] is tied to a magical pot of golden coins; when King Koopa steals the treasure, Murphy's fortunes [[BornUnlucky take a turn for the worse]]. Mario and the gang have to recover the coin cache quickly, as Murphy seems to be a kind of FisherKing--his newly rotten luck is causing a rainstorm that threatens to flood the whole kingdom.
174	* The characters in ''WesternAnimation/JakersTheAdventuresOfPiggleyWinks'' live at Ireland. Piggley lives on a farm and the characters have heavy Irish accents.
175	* ''Literature/TheLittles'': 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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178	'''Oirish Characters'''
179
180	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
181	* From ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'': Lockon Stratos, Sniping the targets! [[spoiler:We're talking about a pair of twins here.]]
182	* Jin from ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' has a very strong Irish accent in the English dub. It's [[AccentAdaptation meant to reflect]] his Tohoku accent in the original Japanese.
183	* Canon Memphis from ''Anime/FafnerInTheAzureDeadAggressor'' 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.
184	[[/folder]]
185
186	[[folder:Comic Books]]
187	* The Cassidy family -- Siryn, Banshee, and Black Tom -- in ''ComicBook/XMen'' often lapse into this, depending on the writer. They even own a castle full of leprechauns.
188	--> "[[ComicStrip/TwistedToyfareTheatre And if'n ye cannae tell, I'm Irish.]]"
189	* The hero Shamrock from Creator/MarvelComics is from Ireland and was the main hero there until she retired to become a hairdresser. Her power is [[WindsOfDestinyChange luck manipulation]] (as in, the luck of the Irish), which, in an origin that is both extremely badass in its source and somewhat less impressive in its execution, she gains by channeling the spirits of innocent victims of war.
190	* The New 52 incarnation of the {{ComicBook/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 [[SuperpoweredEvilSide for the most part]], definitely has a pugnacious streak.
191	[[/folder]]
192
193	[[folder:Fan Works]]
194	* ''Fanfic/DumbledoresArmyAndTheYearOfDarkness'':
195	** Seamus Finnegan gets turned into this, Creator/JKRowling has said that naming the character "Seamus Finnegan" was pushing it a bit, but Thanfiction exaggerates the Irish stereotype. Example:
196	--> "Tell you what. You say one word, and I'll make it worth your while. I've smuggled in a bit of the real good stuff – Muggle-made Irish pure – and I'll slip you a tot. Or if you'd rather, I'll work my charms and score you a kiss from that lovely Miss [=MacDonald=] you've been castin' eyes at all year. What say you?" ''DAYD'', (Chapter 11).
197	** Now consider that he didn't have anything resembling that thick an accent in canon. Oh, and he knows Druidic rituals, as well.
198	** 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 ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows''. For those who don't know the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' 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.
199	* Molly O'Flannigan, [[spoiler: Yuki-Rin]]'s sister, from ''FanFic/OnePieceParallelWorks'', despite the fact there is no Oireland-type country in the ''One Piece'' world. A flashback during the Baleeira Porto Arc revealed that before [[spoiler: the Celestial Dragons killed Molly's parents and then forced Molly into Yuki-Rin's against her will]], her parents owned a pub.
200	** 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.
201	* Subverted in ''FanFic/PowerRangersGPX'', 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 ([[DontExplainTheJoke He's from Dublin]]).
202	* Tapper Smurf in ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' wears this trope as the village's bartender who just happens to be Christian. He averts the FightingIrish trope, though, leaving it to his BraveScot friend Duncan [=McSmurf=].
203	* The ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' expanded by Creator/AAPessimal 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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206	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
207	* Séamus [=McFly=] in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII''. His brother Martin fits the FightingIrish trope, which serves as a cautionary tale he tells his descendant Marty [=McFly=] under the guise of Creator/ClintEastwood.
208	* Mad Stephen from ''Film/{{Braveheart}}''.
209	* Victor Mclaglen's characters of Sgt Mulcahy and Sgt Quincanon in John Ford's Cavalry Trilogy films are the drinking & brawling variety. In ''Film/SheWoreAYellowRibbon'', a half dozen soldiers couldn't force him into the guard house, but a stern scolding from the CO's wife could.
210	* The BigBad of ''Film/PatriotGames'' is a member of an extremist IRA cell...played by Sheffield-born Creator/SeanBean.
211	* In ''Film/TheBirds'', 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.
212	* The cartoon fox from ''Film/MaryPoppins'' that gets hunted by a group of [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything cartoon British hunters and their dogs]].
213	* ''{{Film/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 FakeIrish (played by Brit Kathy Burke).
214	* In the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, once Tony Stark loses the [[TheJeeves English digital assistant]] J.A.R.V.I.S. in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', his replacement is an Oirish female, F.R.I.D.A.Y. While it is voiced by an actual actress from the island, Creator/KerryCondon, one line from ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' is so Irish [[https://www.dailyedge.ie/kerry-condon-captain-america-civil-war-2771670-May2016/ there were reports of laughter in Dublin]]: "Weapons system is knackered, boss!"
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217	[[folder:Literature]]
218	* Mad Sweeny, the Irish-American leprechaun from ''Literature/AmericanGods'', 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.
219	* Padan Fain from ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' 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.
220	* The bats in the ''Literature/RatsBatsAndVats'' series are almost an invocation of the trope; they had Irish revolutionary songs downloaded into the implants in their heads, and it shows.
221	* Freckles of Creator/GeneStrattonPorter's ''Literature/{{Freckles}}'', despite being born and raised in Chicago, shows many of the tropes. Including an Irish accent. And his family name is O'More.
222	* Used in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' 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.
223	* Lampshaded and averted in the ''Literature/DiogenesClub'' stories featuring Kate Reed. In "Literature/TheGypsiesInTheWood", 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.
224	* Invoked by Hunter Hillman in ''Literature/AndAnotherThing'', a hard-headed property developer who deliberately talks like a Creator/BarryFitzgerald character so people will trust and underestimate him.
225	* ''Literature/TheMatingSeason'': [[Literature/JeevesAndWooster 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.
226	--> '''Gussie''': And in describing the incident he prefaces his remarks at several points with the expressions "Begorrah" and "faith and begob." Irishmen don't talk like that. Have you ever read Synge's ''Riders to the Sea''? Well get hold of it and study it, and if you can show me a single character in it who says "Faith and begob," I'll give you a shilling. Irishmen are poets....They say things like "An evening like this, it makes me wish I was back in County Clare, watchin' the tall grass."
227	* ''Literature/TheLostFleet'' and ''Literature/TheGenesisFleet'' 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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230	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
231	* The ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E15ShoreLeave 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 ''Film/DarbyOGillAndTheLittlePeople''.
232	* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'':
233	** "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E18UpTheLongLadder Up the Long Ladder]]" features the Bringloidi, a colony of Irish settlers who are a blend between this and SpaceAmish, none of whom are played by actual Irish actors. Goes without saying that Irish actor Creator/ColmMeaney, who plays Chief O'Brien, hated this episode, and he later objected to a leprechaun appearing in the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E16IfWishesWereHorses If Wishes Were Horses]]" for this reason (Literature/{{Rumpelstiltskin}} was used instead). In commenting on this trope, he brought up his previous role in ''Film/TheCommitments'' as a more accurate representation of what Ireland was like than quaint villages.
234	** In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E13SubRosa Sub Rosa]]", Dr. Crusher's grandmother dies on a planet settled by more [[SpaceJews Space Oirish]] (who were supposed to be Space ''Scottish'', but, [[{{Scotireland}} y'know]]) and there's a [[spoiler:VirtualGhost]].
235	* Angel from ''Series/{{Angel}}'' is this to a degree.
236	* While she doesn't use an accent, Fiona from ''Series/BurnNotice'' otherwise very much plays to American stereotypes by being a violent, totally chaotic ex-terrorist. She's also [[FakeIrish played by a British actress]] (Creator/GabrielleAnwar). 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.
237	* Mr. O'Reilly, the lazy, incompetent Irish construction worker on ''Series/FawltyTowers''. 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 [[DysfunctionJunction the rest of the cast]].
238	* A young Lyndy Brill (Catherine Hargreaves in ''Series/GrangeHill'') played the daughter of an Irish terrorist involved in UsefulNotes/TheTroubles in ''Series/TheSweeney''. Her Oirish accent would make a real Irish teenage girl cringe.
239	* Seamus Finnegan from ''Series/TheFallAndRiseOfReginaldPerrin'' 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. [[SubvertedTrope As soon as the scruffy Irishman hits the boardroom]] [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass he's shown to have an absolute genius for management]].
240	* ''Series/Charmed1998'' features leprechauns in a few episodes. Their land is very much like TheThemeParkVersion 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".
241	** Their spells may be traditional Irish sayings, but they've never heard an actual Irish person pronounce them.
242	* ''Series/TheITCrowd'' has lazy, lovelorn ButtMonkey Roy as one of the main characters.
243	* ''Series/BlackBooks'', also co-written by Graham Linehan (see ''Series/FatherTed'' 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 [[FightingIrish 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'.
244	* Subverted and parodied in ''Series/ImAlanPartridge'', 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.
245	* ''{{Series/Scrubs}}'' downplays it when Creator/ColinFarrell 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.
246	* One ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' 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 [[KissingCousins 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 [[OnlySaneMan 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!).
247	* ''Series/DowntonAbbey'': 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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250	[[folder:Pinballs]]
251	* Creator/{{Capcom}}'s unreleased ''Pinball/{{Kingpin}}'' has a gangster named Pat O'Bunion, who plays this trope straight.
252	-->'''Pat:''' "Ah, there y'are, laddie. Take the right loop, then the left loop, then deliver these packages 'round back, ye follow me naw?"
253	* Knuckles O'Brian from ''Pinball/TheChampionPub'' plays to the "fighting Irish" stereotype.
254	-->"Top of my fist to you, lad. I'm O'Brien."
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256
257	[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
258	* [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} 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 Wrestling/{{Hornswoggle}}.
259	* UPW Ultimate University Graduate, the green haired "Drunken Irishman".
260	* Wrestling/{{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 [[RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic 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 RedBaron 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.
261	** They do tend (well, [[Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield 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.
262	* Wrestling/BeckyLynch (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 GenkiGirl instead. The only indicators of her being Irish are the red hair and Dublin as a hometown.
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265	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
266	* The Fianna of ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'' 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 [[BoozeBasedBuff magic booze]].
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268
269	[[folder:Theatre]]
270	* OlderThanSteam: Macmorris from ''Theatre/HenryV'' by Creator/WilliamShakespeare.
271	* Finian from ''Theatre/FiniansRainbow'' hails from Glocca Morra, which is based on "pixified fancies" of Ireland. Upon planting his crock of gold in the soil of the DeepSouth, 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:
272	-->'''Finian''': Farewell, me friends. I'll see you all some day in Glocca Morra.\
273	'''Woody''': Sharon, where ''is'' Glocca Morra?\
274	'''Sharon''' (mysteriously): There's no such place, Woody. It's only in Father's head.
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277	[[folder:Video Games]]
278	* Aran Ryan in ''VideoGame/PunchOut'' 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 ''[[AxCrazy completely fucking insane]].''
279	* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'':
280	** 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.
281	** [[VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2 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.
282	* ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts''
283	** [[IrishPriest Father James O'Flaherty]] form ''VideoGame/{{Koudelka}}''. A survivor of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland) 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.
284	** Roy [=McManus=] from ''VideoGame/ShadowHeartsFromTheNewWorld''. An ill-tempered, violent and power hungry Irish gang boss, [=McManus=] tried to seize up Chicago while Capone was locked in [[TheAlcatraz 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.
285	* ''VideoGame/TheSuffering: 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.
286	* Atlas, your MissionControl from ''VideoGame/{{BioShock\|1}}''. He later turns out to be [[spoiler:a fake persona cooked up by [[BigBad Frank Fontaine]], who is American. There's a couple instances of {{Foreshadowing}} throughout the game, such as Atlas referencing the Fourth of July and calling [[MadArtist Sander Cohen]] a "section eight", which is US Army slang. Then there's the posters advertising the play ''Patrick and Moira'', [[LineOfSightName which is what Atlas said his son and wife were named]]]].
287	* ''VideoGame/BioShock2'' brings us Simon Wales, the leader of a religion based around the ideas of [[BigBad Sofia Lamb]].
288	* The protagonist of ''VideoGame/TheSaboteur'', Sean Devlin, is sadly a perfect storm of Oirish stereotypes. His accent, [[InformedAttribute allegedly]] that of a man from Belfast, is not even close to the mark. Unsurprisingly he's voiced by an [[FakeIrish 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.
289	* Jack O'Hara of the ''VideoGame/{{Commandos}}'' series is a violent, undisciplined BloodKnight 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 [[OneManArmy 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 [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] (The Diver, who is Australian, holds that distinction).
290	* The Zaffords in ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'' 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.
291	* Zane Flynt, one of the main characters of ''Videogame/Borderlands3'' is a boisterous, charming and violet SilverFox 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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294	[[folder:Web Comics]]
295	* Aunt Nina of ''Webcomic/{{Lackadaisy}} Cats'' is the archetypal dour Irish matron. [[http://lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=320 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.
296	** Rocky occasionally addresses his Irish-American cousin jokingly with these stereotypes, with lines such as "Freckle-lad, my most favorite potato eater!"
297	* [[spoiler: Dougie's father]] in ''Webcomic/WhatTheFu''. Worth noting though that it's only [[UnreliableNarrator Zac]] trying to imagine what may be going through Dougie's head at the time.
298	* Spoofed in ''Webcomic/GoblinHollow'' [[http://www.rhjunior.com/goblin-hollow-0397/ with minty Tam O'Shanter shakes -- like a tall, cool, creamy glass of toothpaste.]]
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301	[[folder:Web Original]]
302	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQCJea92vF4 The character Irish the Hedgehog]], in the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' St. Patrick's Day promotional video, who is green, wears a stereotypical Irish top hat, speaks in a stereotypical Irish accent, and is voiced by WebVideo/{{Jacksepticeye}}.
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305	[[folder:Western Animation]]
306	* ''{{WesternAnimation/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.
307	* Acknowledged In-Universe in ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatianStreet''. 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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