The Irish Film Classification Office (IFCO) received complaints last month about the portrayal of Irish people as “moronic” in the Oscar-nominated Banshees of Inisherin, which was described as “extremely offensive” by one correspondent.
There was also criticism about the accuracy of the accents portrayed by the inhabitants of the fictional island that features in the movie, as well as a claim that its reflection of Ireland in the 1920s was ‘wrong’.
One complainant questioned whether it was made clear from the outset that the film was a work of fiction rather than “a real outlook on the peoples of the islands off the cost (sic) of Ireland…?”
