Forget the parade.
Instead of watching your local GAA team walking down the main street followed by Farmer Tom and his bandy old-ass tractor, why not stick on Netflix and check out some of the best Irish actors and comedians in action.
The good folk at Netflix Ireland have collated some of the best movies, TV programmes and comedies featuring Irish actors and comedians.
Check them out below…
Irish Comedies
Killing Bono
Determined to be a rock star, a Dublin boy starting his own band prevents his brother from joining a group formed by a classmate -- a band called U2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGCOryLwgiY
The Stag
A groom-to-be agrees to a bachelor party in the great outdoors, but the weekend takes a turn for the weird when the bride's boorish brother shows up – Stars Andrew Scott & Amy Huberman.
Frank
An aspiring musician joins a band of eccentrics led by an enigmatic singer -- who wears a fake head -- and his unstable girlfriend. Stars Michael Fassbender and Domhnall Gleeson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wptv2iDdTZM
Life’s A Breeze
A cash-strapped Irish clan inadvertently discards a mattress that's stuffed with nearly a million euros, igniting a wild goose chase to find it again.
Irish Comedians
Father Ted (Dermot Morgan, Ardal O’Hanlon & Paul McLynn)
Dermot Morgan stars as Father Ted, one of three Catholic priests who are exiled to a remote Irish island after misdeeds brought them under the scrutiny of the bishop. There, the priests are tended to by neurotic housekeeper Mrs. Doyle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT9xuXQjxMM
Black Books (Dylan Moran)
A misanthropic bookshop owner named Bernard Black (Dylan Moran) wakes up from a bender to discover, to his horror, that he's hired cheery Manny Bianco as a clerk.
Crooked Man with Tommy Tiernan
CROOKED MAN is the show that Tommy toured for 18 months and was recorded at the infamous home of real stand up in Ireland, City Limits Comedy, Cork. CROOKED MAN perfectly captures the passion and vitality of Tommys inimitable live show.
Irish Dramas
The Magdelene Sisters
Four women are condemned to indefinite servitude in the Magdalene Laundries, where they'll work to atone for their "sins."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhXKI9tAI_M
Bloody Sunday
This drama depicts the 1972 massacre in Northern Ireland, when members of the British Parachute Regiment shot and killed 13 unarmed demonstrators.
Calvary
An anonymous man comes to Father James in confession and vows to kill him in one week, simply because the priest is himself a good man. Stars Brendan Gleeson, Chris O'Dowd, Kelly Reilly, Aidan Gillen, Dylan Moran.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iBJbcHq-oU
Gold
A man returns home after a 10-year absence to reconnect with his ex-wife and daughter, but finds them living with his domineering former P.E. teacher. Stars James Nesbitt and Kerry Condon.
Irish Actors
Ondine (Colin Farrell)
A fisherman's life is transformed when he catches a mysterious woman in his nets. His daughter comes to believe that the woman is a magical creature.
Deadman Down (Colin Farrell)
This taut crime thriller stars Colin Farrell as a brutal gang enforcer who falls for a woman bent on exacting revenge on his boss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI2ruUmvuKU
Seraphim Falls (Liam Neeson & Pierce Brosnan)
A former Confederate colonel leads a posse into the mountainous American West on a hunt for an ex-Union officer who committed a wartime atrocity.
Millers Crossing (Gabriel Byrne)
As the adviser to a 1920s Irish kingpin, Tom's loyalty is tested when he takes up with his boss's girl. Meanwhile, rivals threaten their crime racket.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYifReJJn4M
Love is All You Need (Pierce Brosnan)
A group of people in Italy search for love, and deal with jealousy, passion and loneliness as they struggle to change their lives for the better.
A long way down (Pierce Brosnan)
When a faded TV personality decides to jump off a London skyscraper on New Year's Eve, he meets three lost souls who had the exact same plan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12jCVd5Evko
Nell (Liam Neeson)
Two doctors are astonished to discover a backwoods North Carolina woman who has formed her own language after being cut off from civilisation.
The Other Man (Liam Neeson)
After a shoe designer vanishes, her doting husband learns about her affair with a suave Spaniard and becomes obsessed with learning the details.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPmPgVcSza0
Stigmata (Gabriel Byrne)
After an atheist woman's hands and feet begin to mysteriously bleed, she and an investigating priest are thrust headlong into supernatural terror.
