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'Here was this oh-so-sophisticated audience in London laughing about the goings-on in a post office in Letterkenny'

Colin Farrell and Jenny the donkey in The Banshees of Inisherin.

We could say it was Brian Friel.

When Colin Farrell stood up on the Golden Globes stage recently to accept his award for best actor in The Banshees of Inisherin, he spoke of a donkey, a banshee, the locals of Inis Mór, and of crunchy nut cornflakes. He wasn't being twee or putting on his Irishness, he was being himself. No translation necessary. The speech went viral.