Ah mitzy we meet again
He is indeed irish as was Pierce THE BEST BOND Brosnan (Don't Mention Mamma Mia) ;-)
Actually, most of the actors who have played the trilingual swiss-school educated Eton-attending literary Bond have had humble origins.
Sean's mum was a cleaner, Dad a factory worker
Roger's mum was a housewife, Dad a policeman
George's mum worked in a store, Dad a railwayman
All three had had military service (part of Bond's biog)
Timothy born Colwyn Bay. But he, like Roger, attended Rada.
Pierce's Dad buggered off, mum a nurse, brought up by gp.
Daniel Craig is probably the least 'umble, looking at his biog.
Aidan Turner's mum carpet shop worker, Dad electrician.
Idris Elba's mum a clerk, Dad car factory worker.
It's called Acting, dahling...you do not have to be one of the so-called elite, luvvie, to play one of the elite. Besides, James was an orphaned at 12 military man.
Sorry about the derail from Tay tay bearding again to diversity and representation in MI6/Equality in UK casting/acting opportunities.
MI6 did used to recruit many spies from Oxbridge (Oxford just seven years ago recruited only one student from a black caribbean background) and in March this year, private school heads were moving to accept more black students. MI5 have 8% employees come from black and minority ethnic backgrounds. Cannot find the figures for MI6 but Telegraph claim that faced with the threat of islamist terrorism, they now recruit more people from ethnic minorities and more women than before (no stats on how many women from ethnic minority background).
Given all that, there could and indeed should be a black Bond (although why anyone wants to play a martini-swilling, chain-smoking, misogynist, violent philanderer who will then typecast you for life is anyone's guess. Iconic but why?). Whether they ever will remains to be seen. In real life, like acting breaks, discrimination is still rife.
As an aside, anyone with Netflix, Master of None, Aziz Ansari: the episode ''Indians on TV'' is brilliant.
I would also heartily endorse Adeel Akhtar as Bond (He was in Utopia. I adore him. Also in River and The Night Manager). But I suspect Hrithik Roshan would beat him to the punch if we were being so shallow as to base it on looks alone ;-)