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He wasn't very 'irish' was he ?


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Irish-American.

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Maybe to the Italian Mafia he was.

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What, you don't think Robert De Niro was believable as an Irishman? Would it have made more sense if they called it "The Italianman" ?

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His character in Goodfellas was also part Irish.

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True

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Of De Niro's grandparents, he thinks that three were Irish and one Italian. Source: https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/news/robert-de-niro-really-does-have-irish-roots-and-hes-determined-to-find-them-38522558.html. So he's more Irish than Italian!

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Cool, didn't know that

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The way he is speaking is very straitford.

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But American Irishman talk like that though. They're wannabe whops.

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The thing with the Green Coffin just felt really odd, it was was like his only nod to his Irishness in the while movie.

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