The worst Irish films of all time

This originated on the forum, as an actual thread about the worst Irish films of all time. Then it took a familiar and rather amusing turn which saw film titles changed to give them added Irishness. Here are some of the best. Got any more?

Glengarry, New Ross – O’Sullivan, B

I Am Legless – Monkeyballs

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe Tone – O’Sullivan, B

Brays of Thunder – Johnny5

D’untouchables – Hooronahonda

Raging Bullocks – O’Sullivan, B

Before Devalera knows you’re dead – Twenty Major

Spar Wars – O’Sullivan, B

Journey to the Centra of the earth – Twenty Major

The Purple Rose of Carlow - divneymathers

Butch Cassidy and the Sundrive Kid – Fill3rup

Tuam Raider – Hooronahonda

Transfarmers – O’Sullivan, B

Jesus Christchurch Super Spar – Fill3rup

The Grapes of Rathnew – Butch Cavendish

Every which way but Luas – Hooronahonda

A View to Achill – Butch Cavendish

The George Bernard Shawshank Redemption – O’Sullivan, E

Bridewell Revisited – Holemaster

Athlonement – Puerile Pish

Oklaomagh – Holemaster

The Termonfeckinator – Fill3rup

A Clockwork Orangeman – Dec

The Long Good Friday Agreement - Hooronahonda

Bertie Rotten Scoundrels – divneymathers

Aileen – Comes with the tagline: ‘In Naas no-one can hear you scream’ – Hooronahonda

There are loads more in the forum thread itself but if you’ve got any more just slap ‘em in the comments.

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  1. JL Pagano says:

    Lord of the Ringsend?

    You’ll have me at this all day, ya bollix…

  2. Cupid Stunt says:

    Requiem For a Beamish

  3. rhiozmecowboy says:

    three days of drumcondra

  4. Cupid Stunt says:

    or maybe Johnnie Darko

  5. rhiozmecowboy says:

    shaws

  6. JL Pagano says:

    Scumbag Millionaire

  7. JL Pagano says:

    OK I’ve done a list of ten, I’m sending this and that’s THAT!!! Curse you Twenty!!!

    No Country For Oldbawn

    Sinn Fein’s List

    Bray-heart

    Athboy Story

    The Silence of the Lamb Doyle’s

    The Life of Brian Cowen

    The Day of the Jackeen

    Ballybrack To The Future

    Marlay Park & Me

    Rear Wicklow

  8. rape-a-tron says:

    “Look who’s Dundalking”

  9. Cupid Stunt says:

    V for Val Doonican

  10. Fill3rup says:

    Total Whitehall
    The Odd Couple of Pints
    The Thomas Street Affair
    The Grapes of Rathmines

  11. Conan Drumm says:

    Apocalypse Knowth

    Westie Story

    Seven Rides for Seven Brothers

    Rosemary’s Babby

  12. Monkey Balls says:

    The Bards
    The 39 Pints
    North By Northside
    The Trouble With Harney

  13. eliMordino says:

    Dollar Bill Youghall
    National Lampoon’s Mosney Vacation
    Seven Euro
    My Bleedin’ Valentine
    Kilbride Wars
    Raiders of the Lost Arklow
    Saving Gerry Ryan
    Miley: Cultural Learnings of Dublin for Make Benefit Glorious Village of Glenroe

  14. Monkey Balls says:

    Miley: Cultural Learnings of Dublin for Make Benefit Glorious Village of Glenroe

    I think we have a winner!

  15. Holemaster says:

    Fatal Attracta
    Iano Jones and the Temple of Sound
    Catch a 22
    The Guns of Navan Road

  16. Twenty Major says:

    The Guns of Navan Road

    Miley: Cultural Learnings of Dublin for Make Benefit Glorious Village of Glenroe

    Bravo!

  17. divneymathers says:

    Bridge Over The River Quoile
    Calvita’s Way

  18. Fill3rup says:

    20,000 Leagues O’Toole under the sea

    The JobHunter

    Alice doesn’t Live here.Any Gear?

    The Dark Shite

    Metropolish

  19. Magoo says:

    Moonestruck

  20. Twenty Major says:

    Schindler’s pissed.

  21. Holemaster says:

    An Orifice of a Glenties man

  22. Walter Ego says:

    American Warehouse In LondonDerry.

    Knocklyon, The Witch And The Wardrobe.

    The Gee Monologues.

    This could go on……… and on…..

  23. Magoo says:

    Athy Story

  24. Twenty Major says:

    Knocklyon, The Witch And The Wardrobe.

    heh, very good.

    The Royal Tenements.

  25. Magoo says:

    The Cook, the thief, his wife and her rasher

  26. Holemaster says:

    Bertie’s Millions
    Glenageary Glenross (variation on O’Sullivan’s)
    The Life Savings of Others

  27. Conan Drumm says:

    Crouching Langer Hidden Oul’wan

  28. Walter Ego says:

    Westside Gorey.

  29. Walter Ego says:

    Under Cobh Or Cop III.

    A Christmas Carroll’s.

  30. Twenty Major says:

    The Booze Brothers.

  31. Conan Drumm says:

    Sleepless in Dunkettle

  32. Walter Ego says:

    Tallaghtfornia

  33. hooronahonda says:

    An old one of mine reworked:

    Morans from Outer Naas

  34. hooronahonda says:

    Down and Out in Beverley Cooper Flynn

  35. hooronahonda says:

    48 Hoors

  36. hooronahonda says:

    Another 48 Hoors

  37. hooronahonda says:

    Fuck yiz, I should be saving these for the Forum!

  38. Walter Ego says:

    From Here To Maternity.

  39. hooronahonda says:

    A funny thing happened on the way to the forum

  40. Monkey Balls says:

    Charlie and the Guinness factory.

  41. Monkey Balls says:

    The Unbearable Shiteness of Behan

  42. Magoo says:

    Crocodile Ardee

  43. Walter Ego says:

    Nicole Kidman in De Udders.

  44. Conan Drumm says:

    Chariots of Firies

  45. Conan Drumm says:

    Do a top twelve of these and call it The Qwerty Dozen

  46. Holemaster says:

    Angela’s Rashes

  47. The Beer Nut says:

    Bring Me The Potato Bread of Alfredo Garcia

  48. Monkey Balls says:

    Bridewell Revisited.
    The Girl At The Shop In The Striped Pyjamas.
    The Outlaw Josey Connors.
    Meet The Feckers.
    The Mammy.
    The Adventures Of Robinhood Industrial Estate.

  49. Fill3rup says:

    The Marathon Bar Man

    Get(the) Carter Twins

    Gerry Ryan’s Daughter

    The Fabulous Bakers Corner Boys

    Hannah Bi

    Attack of the Clones

    Mammy Mia

    Fried Green Cabbage at the Whistle Stop Cafe

    Letterkennys from Iwo Jima

    The Black Dole

    I know what yee did last summer

    Johnny Logans Run

  50. SuperGrover says:

    Mulhuddart Drive
    Starkers

  51. SuperGrover says:

    Millers Roundabout

  52. Conan Drumm says:

    Nanook of the Northside

  53. Holemaster says:

    The Beverly Flynn Billies

  54. Conan Drumm says:

    Lawrence of Loughatalia

  55. Twenty Major says:

    heh, have you been trawling through village names all afternoon, Conan?

  56. divneymathers says:

    The Empire Strikes Brack

  57. Twenty Major says:

    I’ll take that as a yes

  58. Conan Drumm says:

    Not really…

    Belfast and the Furious

  59. Twenty Major says:

    Droghedancing at Lughnasa

  60. Conan Drumm says:

    Lusk for a Vampire

  61. SuperGrover says:

    Skerries Movie 3

  62. SuperGrover says:

    haha
    no way

  63. Twenty Major says:

    Celbridge over the River Kwai

  64. Twenty Major says:

    Rathcoole hand Luke

  65. Twenty Major says:

    Greystones – the Legend of Tarzan

  66. Twenty Major says:

    Youghal the President’s men

  67. Twenty Major says:

    Kenmare on Elm Street

  68. hooronahonda says:

    Favourites so far:
    Three Days of Drumcondra
    Sinn Fein’s List (very worrying)
    The Guns of Navan Road
    Calvita’s Way
    The Unbearable Shiteness of Behan
    Angela’s Rashers

    Try these:
    Ice Station Cabra
    Where Eagles Kildare
    True Git
    The Three Mucky Steers
    Bawn Free

  69. Conan Drumm says:

    Flight of the Phoenix Park

  70. Conan Drumm says:

    Ring of Bright Waterford

  71. &7 says:

    Night of the Punter

    Who’s Your Paddy?

    The Arse End of the Affair

  72. Holemaster says:

    From Lusk till Down

  73. Holemaster says:

    Fear and Loathing in West Finglas

  74. hooronahonda says:

    Beer and Loafing in East Finflas

  75. hooronahonda says:

    Beer and Loafing in East Finglas

  76. Whiskeyintheditch says:

    Paddy Daycare

    Blades of Gorey

    Nanny McGee

    Pink Floyd’s The North Wall

  77. Eolaí says:

    Euro Cents and Sensibility

  78. Eolaí says:

    Maud Gonne with the Wind

  79. 10 PARK DRIVE says:

    Noope. Y’all wrong. The worst Irish film of all time, and Lord knows there have been some bad ones, was The Van.(1997)

  80. fill3rup says:

    One for MonkeyBalls:

    Nightwatchmen

    yes theres more:

    The Italian Jobstown

    A View to a Kilkee

    Wild Wild Westport

  81. Magoo says:

    I seen what you done last summer

  82. Magoo says:

    What’s atein Gilbert Grape

  83. Eolaí says:

    The Oscar Wilde Geese

  84. Magoo says:

    Amen (Dunphy)
    Look back in Ongar

  85. Ibanez says:

    Full Metal Jackeen

  86. Holemaster says:

    Alice in Funderland

  87. Rob says:

    Coolock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

  88. Rob says:

    When Harry met Sally’s Gap

  89. Rob says:

    A room with a Mervue

  90. Rob says:

    East of Edenderry

  91. Magoo says:

    Bunrattytouille

  92. Rob says:

    Camolin the name of the father

  93. Eolaí says:

    Malin Hedwig and the Angry Inchicore

  94. Magoo says:

    The colour of Moneygall

  95. Eolaí says:

    Dundrums Along the Mohawk

  96. Ibanez says:

    Fairwell my Conchubair

  97. Conan Drumm says:

    Oughterard: With a Vengeance

  98. Ibanez says:

    The Maltese Flagon

  99. Conan Drumm says:

    The Nutgrove Professor

  100. Eolaí says:

    Donegal the President’s Men

  101. Eolaí says:

    Whoops – I’ll concede Youghal is better

  102. Eolaí says:

    Paddy Power Rangers

  103. Ibanez says:

    How to get Drogheda in business

    really sorry

  104. Fintan says:

    Demons Un-Laoised

  105. Ibanez says:

    Portarlington Road

  106. Eolaí says:

    Monaghandy Man

  107. Fintan says:

    Geishill Girl
    Deep Moate (sorry!)

  108. Fintan says:

    Home Athlone

  109. Fintan says:

    Raiders of the Lost Arklow

  110. 10 PARK DRIVE says:

    FOR THE LOVE OF GOD TWENTY PUT AN END TO THIS HORROR NOW

  111. HalifaxDave says:

    Drunken shags please where Irish?

  112. HalifaxDave says:

    Drunken shags please we’re Irish

    god I hate slyxdexia

  113. Ian Murphy says:

    Athy Me Up Athy Me Down
    Gortfellas

    Harry Potter and

    The Philosopher’s Greystones
    The Dail Chamber of Secrets
    The Prisoner of Strabane
    The Goblet Of Glanmire
    The Half Pissed Prince
    The Bleedin’ Deadly Hallows

  114. Ian Murphy says:

    Forgot the Order of The Phoenix Park but that’s a very obvious one!

  115. Eolaí says:

    A Carlow Down Durty Seamus

  116. Eolaí says:

    The Galway We Were

  117. Eolaí says:

    Nothing in Roscommon

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  119. Dobharchu says:

    O’Robot

  120. Aisling says:

    This has me laughing so hard I’m crying at my desk…
    “A View to Achill”??? ah aha ha h aha hah ah aa

  121. Twenty Major says:

    Top work everyone.

  122. Sproosey Goosey Moose says:

    The Postman Always Ringsend

  123. Sproosey Goosey Moose says:

    Little Firhouse on the Praire

  124. Sproosey Goosey Moose says:

    ColeraineMAN

  125. 10 PARK DRIVE says:

    Fried Green Potatoes

  126. johnny spider says:

    One flew over the new park west

    the full monto

    an postino

    the bicycle’s thiefed

    Das Booterstown

  127. Holemaster says:

    Day of the Jackeen.

  128. hooronahonda says:

    Mortal Cowpat
    Gombeen the Wind
    Free Welly
    The Jumbo Breakfast Roll Club
    Father of the Bridie
    Missisbrown Burning (please!)
    Siobhan a Yellow Ribbon

  129. hooronahonda says:

    Some Bond related nonsense:

    From Rooskey with Love
    Goldfingal
    Octopaddy
    Thunderbally
    Cascarino Royale
    Tom O’Connor Never Dies
    Mondos are Forever

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  132. Paulus says:

    12 Skangery Men

  133. Paulus says:

    The Curious Case of Brian Cowen
    Born On The 17th Of March

  134. Paulus says:

    Breakfast Roll at Tiffany’s

  135. Paulus says:

    Brokeback Mountjoy :D

  136. Bearhunter says:

    From the Wexford FIlm Institute’s jury:

    The Enniscorthy Year Old Virgin

    The Colour of Moneyhore

    Curracloe Down Dirty Shame

    Bree Willy

    Four Fethards

    New Ross and the Switchblade

  137. CW says:

    A Perfect Stormont
    A Time to Kill-dare
    No Cunt for old men
    The Big Cunt
    The Beerhunter
    Apacko’fags Now
    Dances with Wolfhounds
    Battleship Potemkinsale
    Quantum of Bollocks
    Duck you Fucker!
    The Magnificent Seven Creamy Pints
    Lough Neagh and two smoking barrels
    Men in Black Rock
    Once upon a time in the Westmeath

    Then there’s one about the West Belfast super-hero:
    “Spide-Man”.

  138. CW says:

    There will be Spuds

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  140. Witch says:

    Million Dollar Bank Robbery

  141. Witch says:

    Mr & Mrs Murphy

  142. Witch says:

    Durty Dancin

  143. peterga says:

    “The two Martello towers”

  144. becks says:

    Athlonement

  145. Isolde C says:

    The House of Frigging Liars

    Like Waterford Chocolate

    Iron Manorhamilton

    Irish remake of “Moulin Rouge” – Red Mills dog food

    The Bertie’s Dozen

    Leaving Laois-Offaly

    An Offaly and a Jamestown

    The Brigids of Monaghan County

    East Wall Street

    Falling Downpatrick

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