In The Oxford Companion to Irish literature, the ‘stage Irishman’ is described as "garrulous, boastful, unreliable, hard-drinking, belligerent (though cowardly), and chronically impecunious." This archetype, which can be traced back to before Shakespeare and still exists today, is designed to perpetuate the idea that Irish people are either drunkards on the verge of an early death or leprechauns with an accent representative of no real place. Or both.
Last night, while watching Eternals with
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