Sabrina Carpenter may already be dating an Irish hunk: The actress and singer attended the Vanity Fair Oscars party with Irish actor Barry Keoghan last Sunday, fueling the rumors of their romantic involvement.
But whatever feelings Ms Carpenter may have for Mr Keoghan did not stop her from saying she had eyes for Cillian Murphy, another Irishman, in a Vanity Fair interview filmed before the party. Mrs. Carpenter he joked that if she saw Mr. Murphy at the event, she would leave with him.
After sharing a video of the interview on Instagram, Mr Keoghan left a comment. It had no words, just two emojis: a person with a raised hand and a shamrock. Another user commented: “He’s got a thing for the Irish like me.”
Mr. Keoghan, 31, and Mr. Murphy, 47, along with Paul Mescal, 28, and Andrew Scott, 47, have recently infused popular culture with great Irish energy starring in the films “Saltburn,” “Oppenheimer” and ” All of us foreigners.” As a result, these actors have started a moment for Irish crushes.
Some of them seem to have leaned on their reputation. Mr Keoghan appeared on a cover version of it Vanity Fair’s Hollywood Issue butt naked. His body was a bit more dressed up in a Valentine’s Day campaign than dating app Bumble. these pictures when shared on social mediahad some people drooling in the comments.
Weeks ago, Mr. Mescal seen walking the streets of New York in short shorts and a cut-off sweatshirt that exposed the hair on his lower torso (a patch some suggestively refer to as the “happy path”).
Olamide Asanpaola, 26, recently shared one video on TikTok, in which she blasted Mr Keoghan’s ability to “look straight into the camera and try” to seduce you — only instead of “seduce”, he used an unpublishable four-letter word.
Ms. Asanpaola, a musician in New York, said in an interview that Irish men like Mr. Keoghan have attractive qualities beyond charisma. “They just seem so progressive,” she said, and “they carry themselves with such grace.”
Bailey Kormick, 26, wrote in a caption for a video shared on TikTok, “Irish people just hit different.” In an interview, Ms. Kormick, a marketing director in Washington, D.C., who is of Irish descent, said it might have something to do with their accent. “I feel like it’s a little sexier and more rustic,” she said.
Some of Mr. Murphy’s fans said they were drawn to the Oscar winner because of another characteristic: his eyes. Or, as Hayden Reis, a 20-year-old college student in New York, put it, “those beautiful blue eyes that put you in a trance.”
Noelia Caceres, 26, who works at a mental health clinic in Miami, echoed that sentiment. “Cillian Murphy’s eyes, oh my god,” he said, adding that he and other Irish actors have a compelling on-screen charisma.
Ms. Caceres noted that she has crushes on people of all backgrounds and that she has no fetish for Irish men, but she is playful. “We like to joke around,” he said.
Attention has been paid not only to celebrities, but also to some less famous men in Ireland. In the two years since 21-year-old James Doyle started his TikTok accounthas amassed around 1.3 million followers by posting casual videos showing snippets of his daily life in Leitrim, about two and a half hours from Dublin.
Mr Doyle, whose ginger hair is styled into a mullet, said he had a “big American audience”. He believes part of it has to do with the “country accent”.
“I think the main appeal to Americans of Irish lads is that we have a sense of mystery, mainly because they can’t understand our accent,” he said.
Sarah Geraghty, 39, a communications consultant and former wedding columnist for The Irish Times, said many people complain about Irish men because they “have this unusual, almost strange Irish modesty”.
“I think Cillian Murphy’s Oscar speech really captured all of that,” he said, describing the actor’s remarks — which included a shout-out to his hometown — as understated and gracefully delivered.
Andrea Bo, a 25-year-old medical assistant in Houston, said she was one of many people planning to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day this weekend. Ahead of the celebration, which is on Sunday, Ms. Bo was posted on social media platform X a photo of a green T-shirt that sported the phrase “Kiss Me I’m Irish,” with the word “Irish” crossed out and the word “Latina” underneath. In one caption, she referred to the shirt as her St. Patrick’s Day outfit.
Do her vacation plans include meeting an Irish cutie? “Fingers crossed,” Mrs Bo said.