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I was just thinking back to our 2012 honeymoon to Ireland and how great it was and how I’d love to go back someday. Got me to thinking about various movies I’ve seen over the years that were set there and a couple I can think of off the top of my head are: Waking Ned Devine The Commitments Leap Year (total chick flick that the wife loves) The new Star Wars movies also while not set in Ireland features one of two actual islands off the west coast of that country, it was where Rey traveled to to find the aged, bitter Luke Skywalker: History of Skellig Michael, the ancient Irish island featured in "Star Wars" We saw that from the mainland while there on our honeymoon, and I can only imagine trying to be a monk and having to deal with Viking raiders every so often. Must have been a tough life. Does anyone here have any favorite movies or even TV shows that they like that are set in Ireland? | ||
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The Quiet Man with John Wayne is set in Ireland and was filmed in County Galway and County Mayo. Ondine with Colin Farrell is another Irish film. | |||
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We visited for the first time last summer and I have ancestral roots in Ireland. Here are a few flicks set there that I enjoyed. The Guard Banshees of Inisherin (sp?) Belfast | |||
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The Crying Game. End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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The Ice Cream Man |
Father Ted | |||
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Derry Girls - TV show on Netflix. | |||
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Yes, as cheesegrits said, The Quiet Man with John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara & Victor McLaglen is the first one I thought of and an absolute classic! We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. Abraham Lincoln | |||
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Sons of Anarchy (season 3) was at partially filmed in Ireland. But I hesitate to post this in this thread, because it was neither a favorite or interesting In fact it sucked -- that shows worst season. . | |||
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The Wind That Shakes The Barley (movie) Rebellion and Resistance (miniseries and its sequel miniseries) All deal with the Irish fight for independence from Britain in 1916-1921 and the subsequent Irish Civil War in 1922-1923. | |||
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The Secret of Roan Innish and Into the West. | |||
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The key was to turn on CC, then you could understand what was being said, kinda.... | |||
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Ditto. I’m thinking that John Wayne‘s little kids had minor parts in that movie. Maybe wrong – it’s been years since I saw it. Serious about crackers | |||
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Neighbor friend of mine born in Ireland liked the 2010 Jack Taylor detective series. I caught a couple episodes at his house. Not a detective series fan so I never watched it elsewhere, but if you like that sort of program, it was filmed in Galway. | |||
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For some odd reason, I thought that 'The Banshees of Inisherin' would be like 'Waking Ned Devine'. It wasn't. And it was not an enjoyable movie to watch. _____________________________________________________________________ “One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.” – Thomas Sowell | |||
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Starz’s/Amazon Prime’s “Outlander” is filmed in a studio in Glasgow and set in Ireland. "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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No, Outlander is set in that other pretty place where folks speak English with especially thick accents: Scotland. (And later France, and America.) | |||
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DURP!!!!! I might’ve just triggered WWIII… "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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Probably not, but you'd definitely have gotten roughed up by a big hairy guy in a plaid skirt if they ever caught you conflating Ireland and Scotland. | |||
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