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It is St Patrick's Day so what better way to celebrate than to assess the Hollywood stars who have ruined the Irish accent.

It's the accent that is consistently voted the sexiest, the best, the most amazing, etc etc, but apparently that means movies just can't get it right.

From Sean Connery in The Untouchables (never mind untouchable, it was unhearable) to Julia Roberts' attempts to sound like she was born on the Emerald Isles, film hasn't been kind to the Irish accent.

Read on below to check out the worst Irish accents on film ever.

Sean Connery in The Untouchables

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Oh Sean. Sean, Sean, Sean, Sean, Sean. No. Don't try to do an Irish accent again. It didn't go well.

Now you wouldn't be alone in thinking that Sean Connery didn't play an Irishman in The Untouchables because judging by his voice, neither did he, which is a slight problem.

Because truly the worst Irish accent is the one you can't actually tell is Irish.

Pierce Brosnan in Taffin

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It takes a special kind of talent to produce such an awful version of your native tongue but Pierce Brosnan managed to do it.

Starring in Taffin, as, er Taffin, the former James Bond didn't exactly impress with his interesting vocal maneuvers and it was made all the worse by the actor actually hailing from the Emerald Isles himself.

Awkward is not the word.

Julia Roberts in Michael Collins

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Julia Roberts is an Oscar-winning actress of incredible talents.

Sadly, of her many, many talents, an Irish accent does not feature because the noises emitting from her mouth in Michael Collins weren't great.

Ironically she played Kitty Kiernan, the lover of the uber Irish Michael Collins, but no-one told her accent.

Julia Roberts in Mary Reilly

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What's the saying? If at first you don't succeed, give up and don't make us suffer through another awful accent? Is that right? Because Julia Roberts needs to take heed.

We're not entirely sure what the world had done in 1996 to warrant both Julia Roberts' accent in both Mary Reilly and Michael Collins, but it's more than paid the price.

Please stop, Julia. Don't play Irish again.

Brad Pitt in The Devil's Own

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Brad Pitt may be one of the finest actors in his generation (without an Oscar) but he's excellent at accents.

Just not the Irish accent, unfortunately as he found out when he IRA man Frankie Gallagher/Rob Devaney in 1997 action film The Devil's Own.

Now unfortunately Frankie Gallagher was meant to be from Belfast, but he sounded more like he had a face full of Cornish pasties because he sounded like he was from Cornwall.

Brad Pitt in Snatch

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Having already proved that an Irish accent isn't his strongsuit in The Devil's Own, Brad Pitt came back a few years later in Snatch, and it was something else.

No, literally, it was something else. It wasn't so much an Irish accent as an accent uttered by someone, somewhere in a way that is totally undecipherable by human ears.

Sorry Brad, but hey, no-one can possibly make it third time unlucky, right?

Kevin Spacey in Ordinary Decent Criminal

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Before he started sounding like Blanche Devereaux in House of Cards, Kevin Spacey perfected his awful accent game in Ordinary Decent Criminal.

Playing Michael Lynch, not a single person of Irish descent thought to tell Spacey that he wasn't sounding Irish, not even director Thaddeus O'Sullivan or Collin Farrell. Not a single person.

Presumably the accent was that bad.

Tom Cruise in Far and Away

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Tom Cruise is a fine actor, and a formerly brilliant action star.

His accent in Far and Away is so bad that we wish it was both far and away. Playing a poverty stricken Irish immigrant by the name of Joseph Donnelly, you'd think he'd sound like an Irish immigrant called Joseph Donnelly.

He didn't.