The ten worst Irish accents in Hollywood movies

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The Bad Brogue award has to go to Norman Reedus, in the Boondock Saints. Much as I loved the boys, his accent was horrendous. Truly embarrassing. Thanks for comin' out.

Well I don't know about the accent but thanks I liked that little early tit bit of Sean Connery and I only got as far as the untouchables and can remember the scene where they kill off Sean Connery,never bin more shocked and devestated and in me life! What a really great segment those film clips are wish I had time to go through them all.

The leprechaun in the Lucky Charms commercials! lol Magically delicious....yup.

A tougher question---which non Irish or Irish hyphenated actor pulled off the best Irish accent of an Irish character in a movie--filum??

Ah, but surely the worst attempt at an Irish accent is that to be heard in the "Irish Spring" advertisements. This is truly pathetic. Even more of a Tom Cruise "corker" is the incredibly embarrassing Cockney accent of Dick Van Dyke in the movie "Mary Poppins." This one truly takes the biscuit. Why he was chosen for the part is a mystery. Ok, he is a pretty good dancer, but there were plenty of equally proficient English hoofers who could have done a far superior job. As someone who lived "within the sound of Bow Bells," I cringe every time I hear Mr. Van Dyke open his mouth in the movie. Cor blimey, luv a duck, 'e needs to keep his norf an souf closed, otherwise 'e'll continue to make the rest of us mum and dad.

I don't understand how English/Irish/Scottish actors can pull off an American accent with such ease but most American actors can't do accents from England/Ireland/Scotland to save their souls. Kevin Costner in 'Robin Hood' was beyond embarrassing trying to speak with an English accent and pretty much just stopped halfway through the film. And I'd think an English accent would be the easiest of the three to try and imitate. Oh yeah, include Australian in their too. They seem to do 'American' fairly well too.

I didn't mind Julia Roberts inMichael Collins. She wasn't too bad. It was passable. But I have had heard some woeful ones. It is a bit like trying an Australian accent if you are not an Aussie. The worst I ever heard trying an Australian accent was Meryl Streep in The Lindy Chamberlain movies. I nearly spewed.

Sorry, but the worst Irish accent in the history of Hollywood--and that's saying something!--belongs to Ann Bancroft as Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller's teacher, in the 1962 film "The Miracle Worker." Bancroft had already won a Tony for the same role on Broadway. Her Oscar-winning preformance is brilliant--so brilliant it's almost possible to miss her truly atrocious Irish accent, which comes and goes throughout the film. (Anne Sullivan was born in Massachusetts, the daughter of famine immigrants, so giving her an Irish accent was a case of gilding the lily--or shamrock. Bancroft needn't have bothered.) Sullivan's story and her deep Irish roots are explored in Kim Nielsen's recent book, "Beyond the Miracle Worker:The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen Keller." It's a book well worth reading, especialy for the light it sheds on the fate of many Irish immigrants who arrived in America as a result of the famine. The scars they and their children suffered were deep and lasting, as Nielsen makes clear.

John Wayne, played an American returning to his Irish roots .The movie, Quite Man . It was Maureen OHara who was supposed to be Irish born with the lousy accent

In addition to Gerry Butler's Irish accent being the worst I've ever heard, he can't even act like an Irishman. If the movie hadn't been filmed in an Irish pub, you would never have known. Even the green hills of Wicklow didn't help him. At least Sean Connery acted Irish in "The Molly Maguires".

John Wayne does a very bad accent in what is that movie now, the "Silent Man"?

Almost better not to attempt an Irish accent,huh?