What are your favorite films with an irish theme.

HERE ARE MY TOP 15


I KNOW THERE ARE SOME GREAT ONES I HAVE YET TO SEE THAT IS WHY THEY ARE NOT ON THE LIST.

Boondock Saints and Far and Away.

Also, does The Departed count? It's Irish mafia anyway.

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The Boondock Saints (Irish Main characters)

The Quiet Man (Irish setting and culture, plus The Duke)

Patriot Games (Jack Ryan vs the IRA)

Darby O'Gill and the Little People (Wee people and a f**king banshee!)

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The Departed is more Irish American. Still a great movie.

Would Snatch be considered as an Irish film? I know its not but Mickey (Brad Pitt) is awesome in it



If not, Bondock Saints.

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Long Good Friday (1979) obviously.

It is not so much Irish movies, as those with Irish themes. And Mickey's "pikeys" were technically Irish gypsies, so I guess it counts.

-The Departed
-State of Grace
-The Long Good Friday
-The General(1998)
-Gangs of New York
-In the Name of the Father
-Michael Collins
-Kill the Irishman
-The Public Enemy
-Angels With Dirty Faces
-Five Minutes of Heaven
-The Crying Game

The Boondock Saints.. A bit violent, but good.

Defo Kill the Irishman or The Departed

Kill The Irishman

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If Boondock Saints counts, The Departed does also. They're both set in BOSTON USA.


Also, I can't remember if they're Irish but I think they are, can't remember the movie, the family lives in a low income apartment upstairs, father is an alcoholic (of course), at least two brothers, one paints in the basement in secret from his family (he wants to be an artist), at the end they go to a theater where the one works for some criminal guy who runs the theater and they rob him, or at least hurt him, I think the one brother gets beat up really bad maybe to death so the other one can get away and rob them, a riot breaks out or something.... it's set sometime between I'd say the 50's and the 70's, and three quarters through the movie the painters mother goes downstairs and discovers what he does down there.
anyone? i'll post this under movie questions also.

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Great film fairplay! Im over due a rewatch of this soon

Shout-out for 'The Guard'!

But the McManus Brothers were Irish immigrants, the guys in the Departed were like 3rd or 4th generation Irish Americans.

No clue about the other movie

"Miller's Crossing"

If Snatch counts then my favs would be Snatch and In the name of the father.

The Departed and The Town. Both very good films. Boondock Saints for me was simply decent.

I remember really disliking The Boondock Saints but it's been a couple years now since I saw it. Like The Departed and My Left Foot well enough and absolutely adore Once.

In the Name of the Father is a great movie. I had forgotten about that. A great Daniel Day Lewis performance!