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See also [[Fake Irish]] for when an 'Irish' character is being played by an American or British actor and may or may not be Oirish.

 

 

'''Set in, or having episodes in, Oireland'''

* Played jaw-droppingly straight in the [[Amy Adams]] romcom ''[[Leap Year]]'' - 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 [[Artistic License Geography|the fastest way to reach Dublin by boat from Wales is via Cork.]])

** The cattle blocking the road is Truth in Television. I've had cows block the roads a few times when I drove through Cork.

* Possibly worse than ''[[Leap Year]]'' is the Eddie Griffen comedy ''[[Irish Jam]]'' 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"

* ''[[Waking Ned Devine]]'' is set on a small island off the coast of the Irish mainland. The town has a population of 52, a beloved village priest, a pig farmer, a pub as the town's informal meeting place (characters repeatedly say that if they won the lottery, "There would have been a mighty party,"), and a general air of absolute innocence. As it's actually an Irish-made film with an Irish cast (including David Kelly of ''[[Fawlty Towers]]'' fame), there's an acknowledgement that not all of Ireland is like this: one of the major characters is a middle-class fellow from Dublin, who works for the lottery company.

** Not to mention the movie of the "true story" of "Patrick O'Dobsky" (Ivan Dobsky).

* ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (Animation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'': 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.

* ''[[The Simpsons (Animation)|The Simpsons]]'' does this every so often:

** 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<ref>The person 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</ref> seen [http://i42.tinypic.com/dnfypk.jpg here]. The episode is a [[Deconstructed Trope|deconstruction of the trope]] as the town has become a [[The Celtic Tiger|bustling, modern metropolis]] where no one has time to go drinking. {{spoiler|[[Reconstructed Trope|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 [[Too Good to Last]], [[Status Quo Is God|for in true sitcom fashion]], the police shut them down and deport them back to America.}} Ironically, this episode was broadcast [[Funny Aneurysm Moment|as Ireland was entering a recession]].

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