London film critics label Irish movie stars 'British'

Yo Doc, if you have a problem with what happens on the website, exercise your right to choose and go look somewhere else. I am certain no one will notice you are gone. And take Baldy with you.

Sorry to go on about this. But over here... http://www.irishcentral.com/ent/Top-10-Irish-films-of-the-decade--79490672.html?page=4 Irish Central claims that The Departed, Capitalism: A Love Story, Gone Baby Gone and -- most prepostrously -- Atonement are Irish films. So it's okay to call Atonement -- a film written and directed by British talent in Britain -- Irish, but these awards nominations are some form of cultural imperialism. How does that work?

Quite right, Prod. Indeed, there was a minor kerfuffle in Ireland a year or two back when Duff was nominated for an award at the Irish Film and Television Awards. They were reduced to pushing some argument about her spending holidays in the country. It is rich that this website -- which spends its time trying to claim Americans and English folk as Irish -- gets het up when British include some irish in their fold.

Oh, for goodness sake, stop whining. Apart from anything else, Anne-Marie Duff IS British. She was born in England and has never lived in Ireland. Solomon's explanation seems entirely fair.

This is nothing new. I just wonder why Irish people accept these accolades. Sir Bob Geldof, Terry Wogan, Daniel O'Donnell..... Just say NO!!

Some things never change. The Irish are strong in the arts but the English are strong in the art of distorting reality.

The late Richard Harris' obituary mentioned that his favorite story was how when he was nominated for an Oscar for "This Sporting Life" in 1963, the British tabloids proclaimed British actor nominated for Oscar, but that six months later, when he was arrested for a bar brawl, the headline read Irish actor arrested in bar brawl. After that, Harris stated, "I alwways knew where I stood with them".