Shittest Irish accent competition

[DexterTCN]

Any where the supposedly irish/descent character says 'boyo'.

 

[youngian]

Anyone checked Vinnie Jones's accent efforts as bare knuckle boxer Smasher O'Driscoll (I kid you not ) in Strength and Honour?

 

[DexterTCN]

...Smasher O'Driscoll (I kid you not ) ...

In tears.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Season 2 of Heroes has some prime examples of shit Irish accents

 

[rekil]

Saturday Night Live people doing very very bad accents for a sketch about the Irish proclivity for incest. Huge show, why so shitty.

Spoiler: trigger warning: painfully unfunny

 

[krtek a houby]

Saturday Night Live people doing very very bad accents for a sketch about the Irish proclivity for incest. Huge show, why so shitty.

Spoiler: trigger warning: painfully unfunny

Won't play this end but reminds me of this story
'That’s what they do in Ireland' - Tilda Swinton's ex reveals he was child of an incestuous relationship - Independent.ie

Speaking of incest, Byrne made the bizarre claim: "That's what they do in Ireland."

 

[stavros]

 

[butchersapron]

Saturday Night Live people doing very very bad accents for a sketch about the Irish proclivity for incest. Huge show, why so shitty.

Spoiler: trigger warning: painfully unfunny

I wonder what was the last year that could've gone out on UK tv? Mid 80s?

 

[IC3D]

 

[Poot]

I wonder what was the last year that could've gone out on UK tv? Mid 80s?

I think Les Dennis and Dustin Gee probably turned it down.

 

[stavros]

From 2 minutes in:

 

[rekil]

I wonder what was the last year that could've gone out on UK tv? Mid 80s?

I think Les Dennis and Dustin Gee probably turned it down.

The Grumbleweeds were the last act I remember soldiering on with this sort of outré material.

 

[butchersapron]

My mum went this last weekend to a irish weekend at pontins - this, stuff apart from old showbands was the full menu. They had to escape to a pub for the rugby.

 

[butcher]

Weirdly Pierce Brosnan in The Foreigner, terrible Gerery adams accent, OK film

 

[rekil]

Last night I watched The Lady from Shanghai (1947) - IMDb and Orson Welles did a passable vaguely west of Ireland accent. No dialogue howlers and he didn't bump into the furniture once.

If I ever find The Dawning (1988) - IMDb I fear that Anthony Hopkins will not be up to the job.

An I.R.A. gunman on the run from the government. He meets up with an idealistic young woman and attempts to win her support for his cause.

It sounds like it wrote itself.

 

[1%er]

It has to be Shane MacGowan surely, the English guy (born in Pembury, Kent) who according to a couple of people quoted in the books "Here comes everybody and Kiss my arse" used to speak with a mockney accent and then developed an Irish accent over night.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Gotta be Rourke...

 

[rekil]

I watched Ocean's 8 the other night for no justifiable reason and Helena Bonham Carter's accent was the least rubbish thing about it. She does her usual overacting and meanders into norn ironery at points. Ocean's 13 was shit as well.

On the other hand, Alexa Davies in The Detectorists was excellent.

 

[Pickman's model]

It has to be Shane MacGowan surely, the English guy (born in Pembury, Kent) who according to a couple of people quoted in the books "Here comes everybody and Kiss my arse" used to speak with a mockney accent and then developed an Irish accent over night.

if you're going to say people are [x] depending on where they were born, then the duke of wellington's irish. he never thought of himself as irish and said just because a man is born in a stable it doesn't make him a horse. if someone is born to english parents in england then obvs they're english. but if someone is born to irish parents in england and then taken back to ireland the position's a little less clear.

 

[rekil]

then the duke of wellington's irish. he never thought of himself as irish and said just because a man is born in a stable it doesn't make him a horse.

That was Daniel O'Connell. Is your pedantry crown slipping?

 

[Pickman's model]

That was Daniel O'Connell. Is your pedantry crown slipping?

it slipped years ago

 

[1%er]

if you're going to say people are [x] depending on where they were born, then the duke of wellington's irish. he never thought of himself as irish and said just because a man is born in a stable it doesn't make him a horse. if someone is born to english parents in england then obvs they're english. but if someone is born to irish parents in england and then taken back to ireland the position's a little less clear.

I am not saying anything other than according to people who knew him well, claim in the books "Here comes everybody" and "Kiss my arse" that he developed his Irish accent overnight. He is English by his own admission, I haven't determined that I was just passing on what he has said himself

Both the books above are worth a read BTW, I was reading Here comes everybody at the time I made my above post, which is why his name sprang to mind

 

[Saul Goodman]

 

[DotCommunist]

surely someone has mentioned sam niel in peaky blinders

 

[Idris2002]

His sensitive and moving portrayal of Charlie Haughey awoke the conscience of a nation.

 

[Saul Goodman]

His sensitive and moving portrayal of Charlie Haughey awoke the conscience of a nation.

His ever-changing Irish/English accent in GoT makes him a strong contender for shittest Irish accent ever. Which, considering he is actually Irish, is some achievement.

 

[Idris2002]

His ever-changing Irish/English accent in GoT makes him a strong contender for shittest Irish accent ever. Which, considering he is actually Irish, is some achievement.

GoT is a fantasy series, and as a genre fantasy is of course notorious for its gritty realism and scrupulous accuracy.

 

[Saul Goodman]

GoT is a fantasy series.

You're shitting me? I thought it was real!
Still the shittest Irish accent I've ever heard. Made worse because he's Irish.

 

[friedaweed]

Connery in The Untouchables. Even his Scottish accent is suss.

 

[Reno]

His ever-changing Irish/English accent in GoT makes him a strong contender for shittest Irish accent ever. Which, considering he is actually Irish, is some achievement.

It would be a shit Riverlands/Westeros accent. Ireland doesn’t exist in the world of GoT.