History Main / OfficerOHara

** Season 5 features a fictionalized version of Mike Malone, an Irish-American treasury agent who gets into Al Capone's inner circle by pretending to be an Italian named Mik

** Directly addressed in a skit at the end of "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E09TheIndestructibleMan The Indestructible Man]]". After Joel swears to stop making jokes about policemen and their [[DonutMessWithACop alleged love for doughnuts]], Kevin Murphy and Mike Nelson appear as policemen and begin complaining about other stereotypes about the police, including this one:

* ''Anime/{{Patlabor}}'' fell into this trope more or less by accident (there is no evidence they did the research), by giving their (half) Japanese-American New York Cop the very Irish (and noted) name of Clancy, Kanuka Clancy (a ShoutOut to Creator/TomClancy). It helped a lot of fans with the FridgeLogic of why someone from Hawaii would join the NYPD.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse'': Captain Stacy call himself "an Irish cop" when one of his co-workers asks him if he can speak Italian to a version of The Vulture who speaks the language.

* Craig Shaw Gardner's Cineverse Cycle has the helpful Officer O'Clanrahan, companion to the astounding [[HeroicDog Dwight the Wonder Dog]]. He eventually turns out to be [[TheMole secretly working with Doctor Dread]] because he's [[TheResenter tired of playing sidekick to a dog]], but by the end, he's changed his mind and repents his evil ways.

* ''Series/{{Castle}}'':

* The ''WesternAnimation/ColorClassics'' short "The Fresh Vegetable Mystery" milks this trope for all its worth. The short "A Kick In Time" also has a gag with an Irish police ''horse'' appearing.

Historically this was TruthInTelevision in many places in the English-speaking world. The original British police force was the Royal Irish Constabulary and it formed the basis for departments throughout Britain and the Empire, the first 2 commissioners of London's Metropolitan Police both ex-RIC men. The RIC also began the custom of law enforcement as a family tradition, sons of RIC officers being given preferential treatment in recruitment, allowed an inch off the regulation height (5'08) and a year off the minimum age. Police departments in American cities like [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCityCops New York]] (around 1900, five-sixths of the [=NYPD=] was Irish), Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Baltimore were disproportionately staffed by Irish immigrants.[[note]]("Fifteen thousand Irishmen from Erin came across./Tammany put these Irish Indians in the police force.") This also rang true in other New World colonies like Australia (in UsefulNotes/NedKelly's day, 80% of Victoria's police), Canada (the NWMP was based on the Royal Irish Constabulary) and New Zealand ([[https://teara.govt.nz/en/irish/page-5 as much as 40% in the 1930s]]).[[/note]] (This is the oft-cited reason why a police van was colloquially known as a "Paddy Wagon".[[note]]Another claim is that it got its name from the Irish drunks it often hauled. As an old New York City joke goes, "If it weren't for the Irish we wouldn't have a police force -- and if it weren't for the Irish, we wouldn't need one."[[/note]]) A [[UsefulNotes/TheIrishDiaspora large wave of Irish immigration]] during the 19th century coincided with the time when major cities started establishing "professional" police forces, and police work was one of the few jobs open to Irish immigrants at the time. In RealLife, police forces offer many opportunities for recent immigrants, and they sign up, partly to protect their own people. This was exacerbated by the violence surrounding the partition of Ireland between 1916-23 which saw the murder of hundreds of police officers, many resigning and emigrating to join forces abroad, especially in America. Because early police work closely resembled [[PoliceBrutality thuggery]], it was not a prestigious position, and because poorly-paid police were vulnerable to [[CorruptCop corruption]], the police were widely despised. It did not take long for the urban police and TheIrishMob to become partners.

* ''Film/OneGoodCop'' has Michael Keaton's titluar character's ('Arthur 'Artie' Lewis) commanding officer, 'Lt. Danny Quinn' (Creator/KevinConway), as one of these, but a more understanding one when he finds out why Lewis committed the robbery on the drug dealers that his squad and a state undercover agent were investigating.

* Played for laughs in the 2005 version of ''Film/TheProducers'' (which is set in 1958, when this trope had already become irrelevant in RealLife). Two NYPD cops with very thick stereotypical Irish brogues come to investigate goings-on in Max's apartment and discover Max and Leo Bloom's "cooked books" from their fraud scheme. Also, Max tries to bluff his way past the cops by assuming a ridiculous parody of a brogue in which his voice keeps getting higher and higher.

Historically this was TruthInTelevision in many places in the English-speaking world. The original British police force was the Royal Irish Constabulary and it formed the basis for departments throughout Britain and the Empire, the first 2 commissioners of London's Metropolitan Police both ex-RIC men. The RIC also began the tradition of law enforcement as a family tradition, sons of RIC officers being given preferential treatment in recruitment, allowed an inch off the regulation height (5'08) and a year off the minimum age. Police departments in American cities like [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCityCops New York]] (around 1900, five-sixths of the [=NYPD=] was Irish), Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Baltimore were disproportionately staffed by Irish immigrants.[[note]]("Fifteen thousand Irishmen from Erin came across./Tammany put these Irish Indians in the police force.") This also rang true in other New World colonies like Australia (in UsefulNotes/NedKelly's day, 80% of Victoria's police), Canada (the NWMP was based on the Royal Irish Constabulary) and New Zealand ([[https://teara.govt.nz/en/irish/page-5 as much as 40% in the 1930s]]).[[/note]] (This is the oft-cited reason why a police van was colloquially known as a "Paddy Wagon".[[note]]Another claim is that it got its name from the Irish drunks it often hauled. As an old New York City joke goes, "If it weren't for the Irish we wouldn't have a police force -- and if it weren't for the Irish, we wouldn't need one."[[/note]]) A [[UsefulNotes/TheIrishDiaspora large wave of Irish immigration]] during the 19th century coincided with the time when major cities started establishing "professional" police forces, and police work was one of the few jobs open to Irish immigrants at the time. In RealLife, police forces offer many opportunities for recent immigrants, and they sign up, partly to protect their own people. This was exacerbated by the violence surrounding the partition of Ireland between 1916-23 which saw the murder of hundreds of police officers, many resigning and emigrating to join forces abroad, especially in America. Because early police work closely resembled [[PoliceBrutality thuggery]], it was not a prestigious position, and because poorly-paid police were vulnerable to [[CorruptCop corruption]], the police were widely despised. It did not take long for the urban police and TheIrishMob to become partners.

Historically this was TruthInTelevision in many places in the English-speaking world. Police departments in American cities like [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCityCops New York]] (around 1900, five-sixths of the [=NYPD=] was Irish), Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Baltimore were disproportionately staffed by Irish immigrants.[[note]]("Fifteen thousand Irishmen from Erin came across./Tammany put these Irish Indians in the police force.") This also rang true in other New World colonies like Australia (in UsefulNotes/NedKelly's day, 80% of Victoria's police), Canada (the NWMP was based on the Royal Irish Constabulary) and New Zealand ([[https://teara.govt.nz/en/irish/page-5 as much as 40% in the 1930s]]).[[/note]] (This is the oft-cited reason why a police van was colloquially known as a "Paddy Wagon".[[note]]Another claim is that it got its name from the Irish drunks it often hauled. As an old New York City joke goes, "If it weren't for the Irish we wouldn't have a police force -- and if it weren't for the Irish, we wouldn't need one."[[/note]]) A [[UsefulNotes/TheIrishDiaspora large wave of Irish immigration]] during the 19th century coincided with the time when major cities started establishing "professional" police forces, and police work was one of the few jobs open to Irish immigrants at the time. In RealLife, police forces offer many opportunities for recent immigrants, and they sign up, partly to protect their own people. Because early police work closely resembled [[PoliceBrutality thuggery]], it was not a prestigious position, and because poorly-paid police were vulnerable to [[CorruptCop corruption]], the police were widely despised. It did not take long for the urban police and TheIrishMob to become partners.

* ''Series/MurderSheWrote'' has at least one episode with a police Lieutenant with the typical [[{{Oireland}} Oirish]] accent with all the stock phrases. And another set in Oireland with the local cops that way.

* ''Film/FortApacheTheBronx'' stars Paul Newman as a third generation NYCPD-er who's this (after his father and grandfather before him).

* Officer Crumb from the Cookie Crisp commercials is a caricature of the Trope.

* ''Theatre/TheMoonIsBlue'' has Detective-Sergeant Michael O'Neill, Patty's OverprotectiveDad. She describes him as being Brooklyn-born but "Irish from way back" and talking in a thick brogue when he gets angry, which he does in the only scene where he appears.

* ''Webcomic/{{Lackadaisy}}'': Calvin "Freckle" [=McMurray=] was going to be a policeman, but fortunately his AxCrazy tendencies were discovered before he graduated.

* ''Theatre/ArsenicAndOldLace'' has an Officer O'Hara, a basically competent Officer Brophy, and a few other, non-Irish cops.