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The look of the Irish: a ‘green wave’ takes over pop culture and fashion


From the buzz around the ‘Craic Pack’ to Irish style influence, interest in the country’s culture is busting cliches

Barry, who grew up in County Cork and has lived in New York for more than 10 years, describes it as “counter-programming” to outsiders’ previous depiction of Irishness geared around leprechauns and wearing green. Photograph: Album/AlamyAfter critical success for Motherland, Catastrophe and Bad Sisters, the writer and actor Sharon Horgan is now adapting Julia May Jonas’s novel Vladimir for Netflix alongside another series of Amandaland. Jonathan Anderson, from Magherafelt in Northern Ireland, who currently oversees Loewe and is hotly tipped to become the new head of Dior, has scored a viral hit by collaborating with Guinness.

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