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Foreigners who are more famous/acclaimed in Ireland than their home countries

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  • #32
    topper75
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    Fratton Fred


  • #33
    The Backwards Man
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    St Patrick


  • #34
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    Red_Wake wrote: »
    Tony Cascarino.
    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Any number of football players esp of a certain generation.
    MikeyTaylor wrote: »
    *Jack Charlton, soccer manager.
    *Mick McCarthy, soccer manager.



    Naming the English players who played for jack charlton’s Ireland back in the day under the grandparents rule may seem like an easy answer to the question but most of them are now commentators, the rest are managers. So they are well known in Britain.

    And jack himself is a World Cup winner. Jack and mick are famous there anyway.


  • #35
    murpho999
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    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    Paki Bonner - no one in Pakistan has a clue who he is.

    Sorry but this joke fails as it's "Packie Bonner"


  • #36
    Benjamin Buttons
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    Argentinian born warbler Chris de Burgh, pretty sure his name doesn't ring out in
    the barrios of Buenos Aires with the same frequency as Messi and Maradona.


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  • #37
    jmayo
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    MikeyTaylor wrote: »
    Any examples of notable non-Irish people who are more popular or acclaimed in Ireland than their home country?
    Ones I can think of:
    *Josh Ritter, American indie folk musician.
    *Charlie Landsborough, British musician (although he is quite well known in the UK)
    *Jack Charlton, soccer manager.
    *Mick McCarthy, soccer manager.
    *David Gray was big in Ireland before making it big in the UK and globally.
    Any more?

    Ahh come on most English football fans would know Charlton and big Mick.

    Chris Rea was far more popular in Ireland and Europe than Britain probably until Road to Hell.

    Nathan Carter is a prime example because country music is not really a British thing whereas over on this island it's massive in some areas.
    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Baz whatshisname and that Indian doctor in Clare who was a TD and minor celeb.

    Baz's mammy is Irish and he has lived here since he was 8.
    So really he is Irish for jaysus sake.

    I am not allowed discuss …



  • #38
    Grayson
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    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »
    She was made 'surplus to requirements' soon after the George Hook Twitter frenzy debacle. Have no doubt she can concentrate fully now on her stand up career and be famous the world over though.

    Never heard of her so looked her up. To be fair her parents who were jehovah's witnesses rejected her because she was gay. Only yesterday I passed the JW's in my town on the way to work.


  • #39
    Water John
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    Ronan O'Gara
    Marty Morrissey


  • #40
    YFlyer
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    LCD wrote: »
    Any number of Olympic Athletes, who once they got dropped from their home federations declared for Ireland.

    South African guy?


  • #41
    TomOnBoard
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    Manuel from Barcelona...


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  • #42
    tonycascarino
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    Daniel Day-Lewis


  • #43
    whisky_galore
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    jmayo wrote: »


    Baz's mammy is Irish and he has lived here since he was 8.
    So really he is Irish for jaysus sake.

    Born in Libya though.


  • #44
    lawred2
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    Omackeral wrote: »
    That **** pheasant Nathan Carter

    :D


  • #45
    Water John
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    Wonder if Lewis qualifies as an A List actor known throughout the world.


  • #46
    RobertKK
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    Katherine Zappone.


  • #47
    [Deleted User]
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    Uncharted wrote: »
    Super Mario and his brother Luigi.

    Italians never even heard of them...

    If they're the Super Mario Bros then am I right in saying their full names are Luigi Mario and Mario Mario?


  • #48
    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
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    Cans of Foster's


  • #49
    murpho999
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    TomOnBoard wrote: »
    Manuel from Barcelona...

    Not real and also very famous in UK.


  • #50
    dd972
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    How can Mick McCarthy be described as foreign?, he's an Irish national born in England.


  • #51
    Liam McPoyle
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    murpho999 wrote: »
    Sorry but this joke fails as it's "Packie Bonner"

    I recall a time when he used to do punditry on Sky Sports, think it was around the world cup in 2002. They called him Paddy Bonner, had his name on screen as Paddy etc. One has to assume it was due to the racist connotations that Packie would have in the UK.

    The name that is, not Packie himself.


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  • #52
    [Deleted User]
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    murpho999 wrote: »
    Sorry but this joke fails as it's "Packie Bonner"
    murpho999 wrote: »
    Not real and also very famous in UK.

    You are great craic, fair play.


  • #53
    ifElseThen
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    Laurie Hartz,
    Paolo Tullio,
    Kunle Eluhanla


  • #54
    diceyreilly
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    Roald Dahl ( although could have been just me that grew up thinking he was Irish)


  • #55
    razorblunt
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    St Patrick


  • #56
    professore
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    dd972 wrote: »
    How can Mick McCarthy be described as foreign?, he's an Irish national born in England.

    Roy Keane managed it in 2002


  • #57
    jiltloop
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    tonycascarino wrote: »
    Daniel Day-Lewis

    Ah here, he's a multiple Oscar winner, he's just as famous outside of Ireland as he is in Ireland surely!


  • #58
    3 the square
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    Micheal and danny healy ray


    Both u s citizens


  • #59
    HydroTendonMan
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    On the flip side, my German roommates were astonished that I didn't know of "the most famous Irish people in the world", The Kelly Family.

    They were massive in Germany and I was none the wiser.


  • #60
    Taytoland
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    Gerry Adams.


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  • #61
    AfterLife
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    HydroTendonMan wrote: »
    On the flip side, my German roommates were astonished that I didn't know of "the most famous Irish people in the world", The Kelly Family.

    They were massive in Germany and I was none the wiser.

    They were massive here in the mid 90's too.


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