The worst Irish accents ever. Part 1

Titus Welliver as Jimmy O'Phelan in Sons Of Anarchy. A True IRA member who was in conflict with the Samcro motorcycle club. Below is a short clip that may scar you. Be wary.

Appalling. Just appalling.

No Irish person on earth has ever said the word "home" like that.

Actually no.

No person on earth has ever said the word "home" like that.

Welliver's a good actor with a skill for impersonation but god only knows what he was thinking here. Or for that matter Kurt Sutter, the creator of the show. This episode was based in Northern Ireland and a lot of the episode was actually shot here as well. Paula Malcolmson, the blonde haired woman in the clip is from Northern Ireland too. There's 100's of excellent actors up there so there was no reason to hire an American for the part of Jimmy. He's so bad that his accent has become the standard, the one against which all other fake Irish accents are held against. Very few come across as badly as this one.

Monty Python's Graham Chapman succinctly sums up how it makes me feel.