History Main / IrishExplosivesExpert

* ''Film/JonahHex''. [[TheDragon Burke]] is a rather psychotic Irish mercenary with a fondness for explosives, though he also likes to kill up and close with his Bowie knife.

* Packie [=McReary=], Niko's main contact in the Irish Mob in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'', will supply Niko with car bombs once the two become good friends.

As this is TruthInTelevision and an [[StealthPun inflammatory]] issue even today, Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease. In a less inflammatory sense, likely also TruthInTelevision due to the number of Irish workers involved in railway construction in Great Britain, Canada, the United States, and Australia.

* In ''Film/{{Ronin}}'', a mysterious Irish woman hires the characters to move a briefcase, but won't tell them what it contains - the leader assumes it's a bomb. [[spoiler:It turns out to contain documents crucial to the Northern Irish peace process.]]
* ''Film/VivaMaria'': [[OneSteveLimit the Maria]] played by Creator/BrigitteBardot is half-French, half-Irish and learned all about the art of making bombs and setting them off from her father. She puts them to good use in a rebellion in a BananaRepublic.

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* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'', an Irish bomber DisguisedInDrag is revealed to be a man when Archer (accidentally) rips off his dress after drunkenly hitting on him at a party at the house of a British Lord. Archer throws a serving tray into the bomber's head before he can detonate his suicide vest.

* Packie [=McReary=], Nico's main contact in the Irish Mob in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'', will supply Nico with car bombs once the two become good friends.

As this is TruthInTelevision and an inflammatory issue even today, Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease. In a less inflammatory sense, likely also TruthInTelevision due to the number of Irish workers involved in railway construction in Great Britain, Canada, the United States, and Australia.

* ''Literature/RatsBatsAndVats'': The [=BombardierBats=], cybernetically uplifted and gengineered giant bats that mostly fight by emplacing and using high explosives. Part of their soft-cyber implants was "Irish revolutionary songs and old 'Wobbly' tunes", causing them to all speak with broad Irish accents and adopt Irish names.

* A novelty song by the Glencoves from 1963 is "It's Sister Ginny's Turn To Throw The Bomb," which details an Irish family of {{MadBomber}}s. "It's sister Ginny's turn to throw the bomb. / The last one, it was thrown by brother John. / Mom's aim is bad, / And the coppers all know Dad, / So it's sister Ginny's turn to throw the bomb."

* In Film/TheHallelujahTrail, the real reason Wallingham hired the Irish teamsters was to look after the wagons secretly loaded with dynamite.

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A Subtrope of {{Oireland}}, DemolitionsExpert and MadBomber, the Irish Explosives Expert is a person hailing from the Emerald Isle whose use in the plot is that of the explosives expert. As the {{Oireland}} page says, a great many Irish characters in action movies tend to be this trope. This trope is derived from UsefulNotes/TheTroubles, a dark period of time for both the North and South, where bombings were carried out by various paramilitary groups (most notably the Irish Republican Army) against targets both military and civilian. In a real life inversion of this trope, the [[UsefulNotes/PaddiesWithPropellorPlanes Defence Forces]] has a bomb disposal unit that makes regular callouts to disarm or perform controlled detonation on suspect devices that are a result of this.

A Subtrope of {{Oireland}}, DemolitionsExpert and MadBomber, the Irish Explosives Expert is a person hailing from the Emerald Isle whose use in the plot is that of the explosives expert. As the {{Oireland}} page says, a great many Irish characters in action movies tend to be this trope. This trope is derived from UsefulNotes/TheTroubles, a dark period of time for both the North and South, where bombings were carried out by various paramilitary groups (most notably the Irish Republican Army) against targets both military and civilian. In a real life inversion of this trope, the [[PaddiesWithPropellorPlanes Defence Forces]] has a bomb disposal unit that makes regular callouts to disarm or perform controlled detonation on suspect devices that are a result of this.

A Subtrope of {{Oireland}}, DemolitionsExpert and MadBomber, the Irish Explosives Expert is a person hailing from the Emerald Isle whose use in the plot is that of the explosives expert. As the {{Oireland}} page says, a great many Irish characters in action movies tend to be this trope. This trope is derived from UsefulNotes/TheTroubles, a dark period of time for both the North and South, where bombings were carried out by various paramilitary groups (most notably the Irish Republican Army) against targets both military and civilian.