Just in time for a certain Irish holiday, a Web site has arrived offering, among other things, Irish-American news and a list of the 10 worst Irish accents on film (Sean Connery tops it, and along with Julia Roberts, appears twice).

The man behind the site, IrishCentral.com, is Niall O’Dowd, the New York-based Irish publisher who puts out the weekly Irish Voice, Irish America magazine and the newspaper Home and Away. The new site includes genealogy information, top tourist spots in Ireland, breaking news and breaking fluff. Its target audience is the Irish diaspora, which numbers 36.5 million in the United States, more than eight times the population of Ireland.

“Like Michael Flatley reinvented Irish dance with ‘Riverdance,’ I want to make the Irish experience vibrant on the Internet, in a good sense,” Mr. O’Dowd said from his office in Midtown, which happens  coincidentally, he insists  to be carpeted in green pile.

The times are hardly auspicious to begin a Web site, what with the economic tailspin that the media  not to mention Ireland  has found itself in. But Mr. O’Dowd, whose prominence in the Irish-American community was cemented by his role in brokering the Northern Irish peace agreement, said he had managed to cobble together $2.4 million in investments from prominent Irish-American businessmen and advertising commitments.