The worst Irish accents in Hollywood movies

In the Untouchables, Connery appeared to make no effort to speak with anything other than his own Scottish accent. When I remarked about this to some very American friends, they didn't realize his accent was Scottish and not Irish! I guess the director assumed most Americans wouldn't notice either.

I have wondered why Brit, Irish and Aussie actors can master American accents (e.g. the guy that plays "House") and yet we native born Americans do poorly trying their accents regardless of our environment growing up. I do give some credit to Brad Pitt's Ulster accent.

Hey, youse. "You're forgetting about the thousand men standing behind me. That's a mistake." Nay more o' these negative comments, or I'll start shootin' - me mouth off. Begorragh. Boyos.

And can someone explain to me why Leo DiCaprio is supposed to have an Irish accent in Gangs of New York when he was a very young child when his father is killed and he's raised in a workhouse in America!

John Wayne in The Quiet Man wasn't supposed to have an Irish accent. It's made quite clear that he was a young child when he travelled to America (he says about his mother "Dead, America, when I was 12".) But yeah, Gerard Butler, quite simply appalling!

No, as a true Irishwoman I have to say the ENTIRE cast of PS I Love You should be shot, as well as BOTH Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in Far & Away...extremely bad. And yes, I always wonder why other Irish actors on-set or behind the camera don't seem to have the heart to tell these "superstars" no person with any sort of Irish connection will ever fall for that accent...which is 3/4 of the world's population!!!!!

Where's Leonardo DiCaprio in "The Gangs of New York?"

sorry, didn't get to the second page of the article and saw that you DID have Tommy Lee Jones in Blown Away included as one of the worst Irish accents in a film... THERE ARE SO MANY INTERESTING ARTICLES A DAY ON IRISHCENTRAL.COM, TODAY JUST RACED THROUGH...

You forgot to include Tommy Lee Jones in the 1990's in "Blown Away" about an Irish 'terrorist' Ryan Gaerity who gets sprung from prison in Northern Ireland and heads to Boston... Ireland.

Your search of "archives" for worst Irish accents in film appears to be of only films from the late 1950's and on. Suggest expanding your historical "archive" search to include films since the 1930's. To me the worst Irish "accent" in a film is John Wayne in "The Quiet Man". The Duke does not even try to do an Irish "accent" in this film, though he is supposed to be an Irish man returning to his home place from a America.

you are missing the abysmal accent by Richard Gere of all people pretending to be an Irish terrorist in The Jackal. Awful movie, awful accent. Must be on a par with Brad Pitt!