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There are high profile Irish actresses now, like Saoirse Ronan and Catriona Balfe from Outlander. I'm not sure about back then. But you don't need high profile actors to make successful film, and that's been proven a thousand times. And Cate Blanchett shouldn't have been cast as an Irishwoman (also a specific famous real life Irishwoman who she looked nothing like) any more than she should be cast as a black woman or a Frenchman. She was also pretty horribly miscast in the 4th Indiana Jones film. Classic example of a Western actor messing up playing a Russian.