[4] For non-Irish productions, the reason for inclusion usually is obvious, such as a setting in Ireland or a story about people of Irish heritage.

Back to the Future (1985) has a detailed entry, owing to a scene in the Diner at the beginning when local bully Biff Tannan refers to Marty's father as 'Irish' in a derogatory fashion.

The nearest literary analogy I can think of is Dineen's Irish Dictionary",[7] Jeff Brownrigg of Australia's National Film and Sound Archive writes that the book is "an indispensable tool for the researcher."

and that it "provides a valuable source of information about a large group of international narrative feature films gathered together under the head of their general association with Ireland."

He writes of the book's nearly two thousand entries and makes note of its comprehensive nature, concluding that it "is clearly an essential reference for libraries and will be sought by film buffs.