Being Irish, I am very used to seeing dodgy portrayals of Ireland on screen. You know the type, full of Aran-jumper-wearing farmers, diddly-eye music, sheep traffic jams, and accents ranging from begorrah to full-blown leprechaun. But many of the worst offenders – Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in Far And Away, Mathew Goode in Leap Year, and Gerald Butler in PS I Love You, who gets a special mention for possibly the most mangled version of an Irish accent I've ever heard – were produced a long time ago.