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The ten worst Irish accents in Hollywood movies

Julia Roberts and Sean Connery may have won Oscars, but they can't pull off an Irish accent!


Sean Connery in 'Darby O'Gill and the Little People'
Sean Connery in 'Darby O'Gill and the Little People'

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Everyone involved in the making of this film, from the producer to the coffee maker, should be rounded up and shot - it's that bad.
 
First on the list to go is Gerard Butler, who plays lovable Irishman Gerry Kennedy, and whose Irish accent is only one of the many problems in this pretty awful film.
 
Sean Connery has shown that even Scottish actors can have trouble with an Irish accent - a point also demonstrated by Butler in this movie.
 
P.S. Gerry, your accent sucks.
 
10. THE LEPRECHAUN IN "LEPRECHAUN"

Like many of the films featured on this list, this movie falls into the "It's so bad, it's good" category. And it's hard not to laugh at a movie with the tagline, "Your luck just ran out."
This horror gained something of a cult following, and was also notable for giving Jennifer Aniston one of her first roles.
 
Of course, in a movie about Leprechauns, anything less than a ridiculous "Oirish" accent would be a total shock - and Leprechaun doesn't disappoint.


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Ah but Brad Pitt did a fab job on "Snatch" as a tinker. He could have fit in to any bar where knackers hang out!
Sarah Holcomb as Maggie O'Hooligan in Caddyshack. "Tanks for nuttin!"
Why not divulge which are the BEST Irish accents in Hollywood movies?
Ooh, I'd have to vote James Cromwell's unrecognizable Irish (or any other kind of) accent in L.A. Confidential above most of these. Great movie, but I cringed every time that guy opened his mouth. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119488/
I think the tone of Connerys' voice gives him a bit of trouble with other dialects
Sean Connery doesn't do accents, even when cast as a Spaniard and as a Russian he still sounds Scottish. However, he is ethnic Irish. His first and last names are Irish, not Scottish, and he is indeed of Irish descent. Probably this convinced him he could do an Irish accent.
Ginger1: I totally agree with you!!!! That's what made "The Wind That Shakes The Barley" great, they casted Corkmen to play Corkmen in the film. A Cork accent is hard to nail down, and it was pretty much spot on. & on a side-note, they flimed allot of it in Cork also.
Here's a novel idea- just cast Irish actors!
I liked Far and away....Maybe what needs to be done is dub these movies, then the purists would be contented.
Agreed - stop running this, we get it already. But one the best accents was Meryl Streep in Dancing at Lughnasa!
In all fairness, I think John Wayne / Sean Thornton (The Quiet Man) goes to great lengths to explain that he left Ireland as a very small child and grew up in Pittsburgh. Also calling him the Yank as Danagher does would mean less if he sounded Irish.
Ann Bancroft as Annie Sullivan in "The Miracle Worker." She won the Academy Award for Best Actress. It was well-deserved, but her Irish accent, which comes and goes, is atrocious beyond belief.
My still favorite "Irish" accent is John Wayne in "The Quiet Man". Wayne did not even attempt an accent in that movie, though he was supposed to be from the area in Ireland the movie is set in.
 




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