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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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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!


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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 Wink

In fact it sucked -- that shows worst season. Wink


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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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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 Wink

In fact it sucked -- that shows worst season. Wink


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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!

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.



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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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Waking Ned Devine

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.


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Starz’s/Amazon Prime’s “Outlander” is filmed in a studio in Glasgow and set in Ireland.



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Starz’s/Amazon Prime’s “Outlander” is filmed in a studio in Glasgow and set in Ireland.


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!!!!! Eek

I might’ve just triggered WWIII…



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"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. Big Grin
 
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