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Sabrina Carpenter may already be dating an Irish hunk: The actress and singer attended the Vanity Fair Oscars party<\/a> with the Irish actor Barry Keoghan last Sunday, adding fuel to rumors of their romantic involvement<\/a>.<\/p>\n But any feelings Ms. Carpenter may have for Mr. Keoghan did not stop her from saying she had eyes for Cillian Murphy, another Irishman, in an interview with Vanity Fair filmed before the party. Ms. Carpenter joked<\/a> that if she saw Mr. Murphy at the event<\/a>, she would leave with him.<\/p>\n After a video of the interview was shared on Instagram, Mr. Keoghan left a comment. It had no words, only two emojis: a person with a hand raised and a shamrock. Another user commented, \u201cShe has a thing for the Irish just like me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Mr. Keoghan, 31, and Mr. Murphy, 47, along with Paul Mescal, 28, and Andrew Scott, 47, have recently infused popular culture with big Irish energy by starring in the films \u201cSaltburn,\u201d \u201cOppenheimer\u201d and \u201cAll of Us Strangers.\u201d As a result, those actors have ushered in a moment for Irish crushes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Some of them seem to have leaned into their reputation. Weeks ago, Mr. Mescal was seen walking the streets of New York<\/a> in short shorts and a cropped sweatshirt that revealed the hair on his lower torso (a patch some suggestively refer to as a \u201chappy trail\u201d).<\/p>\n Mr. Keoghan appeared on a version of the cover of Vanity Fair\u2019s Hollywood issue<\/a> butt naked. His body was only slightly more clothed in a Valentine\u2019s Day campaign by the dating app Bumble; those images, when shared on social media<\/a>, had some people drooling in the comments.<\/p>\n Olamide Asanpaola, 26, recently shared a video<\/a> on TikTok in which she gushed about Mr. Keoghan\u2019s ability to \u201clook directly into the camera and like try to\u201d seduce you \u2014 only instead of \u201cseduce,\u201d she used a four-letter word not suitable for publication.<\/p>\n Ms. Asanpaola, a musician in New York, said in an interview that Irish men like Mr. Keoghan have attractive qualities beyond charisma. \u201cThey just seem so progressive,\u201d she said, and \u201cthey carry themselves with such grace.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Bailey Kormick, 26, wrote in a caption for a video<\/a> that she shared on TikTok, \u201cIrish men just hit different.\u201d In an interview, Ms. Kormick, a marketing manager in Washington, D.C., who is of Irish descent, said that might have something to do with their accent. \u201cI feel like it\u2019s a little bit sexier and rustic,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Some admirers of Mr. Murphy said they were attracted to the Oscar winner<\/a> because of another feature: his eyes. Or, as Hayden Reis, a 20-year-old student in New York, put it, \u201cthose beautiful blue eyes that put you in a trance.\u201d<\/p>\n Noelia Caceres, 26, who works at a mental health clinic in Miami, echoed this sentiment. \u201cCillian Murphy\u2019s eyes, my god,\u201d she said, adding that he and other Irish actors have an exciting charisma onscreen.<\/p>\n Ms. Caceres noted that she has crushes on people of all backgrounds and that she isn\u2019t fetishizing Irish men, but being playful. \u201cWe love to joke around,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Attention has been lavished not only on celebrities, but also on some less famous men in Ireland. In the two years since James Doyle, 21, started his TikTok account<\/a>, he has gained some 1.3 million followers by posting lighthearted videos showing snippets of his day-to-day life in Leitrim, about two and a half hours from Dublin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Mr. Doyle, whose ginger hair is styled in a mullet, said he has \u201ca large American audience.\u201d He thinks part of that has to do with his \u201ccountry accent.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI think the major appeal to Americans of Irish lads is that we have kind of a sense of mystery, mostly because they can\u2019t understand our accent,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Sarah Geraghty, 39, a communications adviser and a former weddings columnist at The Irish Times, said many people swoon over Irish men because \u201cthey have this uncontrived, almost peculiarly Irish, modesty about them.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI think Cillian Murphy\u2019s Oscars speech really distilled all that,\u201d she said, describing the actor\u2019s remarks<\/a> \u2014 which included a shout-out to his home country \u2014 as understated and delivered with grace.<\/p>\n Andrea Bo, a 25-year-old medical assistant in Houston, said she was one of many people planning to celebrate Saint Patrick\u2019s Day this weekend. Ahead of the holiday, which is on Sunday, Ms. Bo posted<\/a> on the social media platform X a photo of a green T-shirt that was a play on the phrase \u201cKiss Me I\u2019m Irish,\u201d with the word \u201cIrish\u201d crossed out and the word \u201cLatina\u201d below it. In a caption, she referred to the shirt as her Saint Patrick\u2019s Day outfit.<\/p>\n Do her holiday plans involve meeting an Irish cutie? \u201cFingers crossed,\u201d Ms. Bo said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n