When it comes to sounding Irish, most Hollywood stars are full of blarney. So say more than 20,000 Irish expats surveyed by the language-learning app and platform Babbel, which released its findings Tuesday, on a parade-free St.
Patrick’s Day. Several Irish expat and heritage organizations in the US were given short clips of the highest-grossing movies in which an American actor plays an Irish character in either a lead or supporting role.
The actors were rated from 1 to 5. Alas, most of them didn’t come close, but leave it to Meryl Streep to finish on top. In “Dancing at Lughnasa,” an adaptation of the Brian Friel play of the same name, Streep plays the oldest of the five Mundy sisters, a devoutly Catholic schoolteacher whose accent rated
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