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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. [[InternetBackdraft You'll be sorry.]]

* Wrestling/{{Sheamus}}, the "Celtic Warrior", who has the usual pale skin and has bright red AnimeHair. He avoids the usual dodgey Oirish accent though, when he's a [[RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic bone fide Dubliner]].

* 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]] [[CourchingMoronHiddenBadass he's shown to have an absolute genius for management]].

* GarthEnnis is apparently quite fond of this one:
** In ''JudgeDredd'', the ''entire nation'' has been turned into [[TheThemeParkVersion a giant theme park]] based on inauthentic stereotypes of past Irish life. An entire 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.]]

** The [[{{Spawn}} Medieval Spawn]]/{{Witchblade}} series, where an Irishman named Stalker kills a leprechaun. Stalker claims it was a mercy killing, since the leprechaun was badly hurt, but one minute earlier he was [[AuthorTract complaining loudly about how leprechauns contributes to Irish stereotypes.]]
** Also subverted again in ''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 "[[{{Oireland}} plastic paddy]]" image, throws out revellers wearing the green, and sells him a pint of Guinness with an obscenity written in the head
* Heavily {{lampshade|Hanging}}d when ''ShadeTheChangingMan'' 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.
* In TheDCU, Jack O'Lantern from the 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.

* a young Lyndy Brill (Catherine Hargreaves in ''Series/GrangeHill'') played the daughter of an Irish terrorist involved in TheTroubles in ''TheSweeney''. Her Oirish accent would make a real Irish teenage girl cringe.

** Also subverted again in ''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 "[[{{Oirish}} plastic paddy]]" image, throws out revellers wearing the green, and sells him a pint of Guinness with an obscenity written in the head

* ''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. Other brands of stout (such as Murphy's or Beamish) are ignored in fiction.

* You see some of this in the Cloncraig scenes of ''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. Esther's charity has shamrocks, girls in green outfits, and its theme song is a cheery version of "Wearing of the Green".

* [[FieryRedhead Red hair]] and the related pale, freckled skin, often [[SignificantGreenEyedRedhead paired with]] GreenEyes. 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.

* 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 theme of homosexual acceptance.

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* Tapper Smurf of ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' is a walking Oirish stereotype bartender Smurf, except that he prefers good sound reasoning and a bit of the old AsTheGoodBookSays over fighting and getting drunk.

Lots of Americans have a fondness for UsefulNotes/{{Ireland}}. This is understandable, considering there are more Americans of Irish descent than there are people living in Ireland (by a margin of about 11 to 1). This has a certain amount of BestialityIsDepraved or AlwaysAnActor 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.

* The substitution of me for my, such as "This is me house."

* Tapper Smurf in ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' wears this trope as the village's bartender who just happens to be Christian.

* Discussed in the ''Drink to Britain'' series of ''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 hilariously 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.

Lots of Americans have a fondness for Ireland. This is understandable, considering there are more Americans of Irish descent than there are people living in Ireland (by a margin of about 11 to 1). This has a certain amount of BestialityIsDepraved or AlwaysAnActor 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.

* 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 an implication he took the idea from posters for "Patrick and Moira", a play taking place in Rapture just before the shit hit the fan - notice what Atlas's wife and son are named]]]].

* Padan Fain from ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' books is effectively this, despite being from a different cycle of time and never having heard of Ireland.
** What? No one knows just where Fain is from, his accent keeps changing, often from one sentence to the next.
*** His dialogue is as Oirish as you can get without actually using the word "Begorrah". At least in the early appearances.
*** Fain is a Lugarder. If I recall correctly from the one (two?) time/s anyone went there, Lugard is pretty much Oirland.

Lots of Americans have a fondness for Ireland. This is understandable, considering there are more Americans of Irish descent than there are people living in Ireland (by a margin of about 11 to 1). This has a certain amount of ''BestialityIsDepraved'' or ''AlwaysAnActor'' 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.

** The most {{egregious}} example may be "In the Name of the Grandfather," which has our favorite family being guilted by Grandpa into taking him to one last booze-up at an old pub he frequented during the war. In flashbacks, Grandpa describes it as a typical Oirish pub, with taps for Guinness, cabbage and corned beef (which isn't even Irish, as noted above), and sheep aplenty, also during one scene you can see two references to Celtic 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 [[DeconstructedTrope deconstruction of the trope]] as the town has become a [[UsefulNotes/TheCelticTiger bustling, modern metropolis]] where no one has time to go drinking. [[spoiler: [[ReconstructedTrope The trope was reconstructed 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 TooGoodToLast, [[StatusQuoIsGod for in true sitcom fashion]], the police shut them down and deport them back to America.]] Ironically, this episode was broadcast [[FunnyAneurysmMoment as Ireland was entering a recession]].

* 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 theme of homosexual acceptance.

This trope goes waaaaaaaay back to at least the days of [[ModernMinstrelsy stage Irishmen]] in eighteenth-century British theatre. Brought back to life by John Ford in the iconic JohnWayne film ''TheQuietMan'' -- which is not a bad movie, and was well-meant by the staunchly Irish-American Ford. Also by his later and lesser-known triptych film ''TheRisingOfTheMoon'', made with the Abbey Theater players.