The look of the Irish From film to fashion, how a 'green wave' is ruling pop culture

After decades of stereotyped portrayal, Ireland has finally broken free from the clichés imposed on it. From Paul Mescal, Cillian Murphy and Saoirse Ronan charming Hollywood to fashion falling for designers such as Simone Rocha and authors including Sally Rooney and Paul Lynch scooping up literary prizes, a green wave is ruling pop culture.

- Chloe Mac Donnell

"There's a real gravitas towards the Irish and Irish culture right now," says Samantha Barry, the editor-in-chief of Glamour. Barry, who grew up in County Cork and now lives in New York, describes it as "counter-programming" to outsiders' previous depiction of Irishness geared around leprechauns and wearing green.

This iteration isn't cringe.

Barry says: "We have always had a cool factor, especially in art and literature, and now we are able to show up in those circles in a really authentic way."

Last year Murphy became the first Irish-born man to win the best actor Oscar. New York magazine has coined the term the "Craic Pack" for a group that includes the Oppenheimer star and other Irish actors dominating the screen such as Colin Farrell, Andrew Scott, Nicola Coughlan, Barry Keoghan and Jessie Buckley.

Resale tickets to Mescal's run of A Streetcar Named Desire in Brooklyn are fetching more than three times their value.

After critical success for Motherland, Catastrophe and Bad Sisters, the writer and actor Sharon Horgan is now adapting Julia May Jonas's novel Vladimir for Netflix alongside another series of Amandaland.