Tanya Sweeney: New Yorker’s ‘satire’ piece on Cillian Murphy’s bedtime routine packs in every Irish cliché – including Lucky Charms
The piece entitled ‘Cillian Murphy’s Bedtime Routine’ has drawn criticism for its extensive use of hackneyed ‘Oirish’ stereotypes
As an arbiter of humour, The New Yorker magazine has a long-standing reputation. After all, Nora Ephron, David Sedaris and Dorothy Parker have routinely published there.
And yet the venerated magazine’s latest stab at a humorous read has garnered much attention for the wrong reasons.
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