Righteous Kill is a 2008 American crime thriller film with elements of a buddy cop film directed by Jon Avnet, and starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro.
 This is the second film (the first one is "Heat") in which De Niro and Pacino appear together in the same scenes (both De Niro and Pacino starred in "The Godfather Part II", but did not appear in any of the same scenes).
 "Righteous Kill" also features John Leguizamo, Carla Gugino, Donnie Wahlberg, Brian Dennehy, and Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson.
 The film was released in the United States on September 12, 2008.
A buddy cop film is a film with plots involving two people of very different and conflicting personalities who are forced to work together to solve a crime and/or defeat criminals, sometimes learning from each other in the process.
 The two are normally cops, but some films, such as "48 Hrs.
" (a cop and a con), that are not about two cops may still be referred to as buddy cop films.
 It is a subgenre of buddy films.
Bon Cop, Bad Cop is a 2006 Canadian dark comedy-thriller buddy cop film about two police officers - one Ontarian and one Québecois - who reluctantly join forces to solve the murder.
 The dialogue is a mixture of English and French.
 The title is a translation word play on the phrase "Good cop/bad cop".
Tracy Jamal Morgan (born November 10, 1968) is an American actor and comedian best known for his seven seasons as a cast member on "Saturday Night Live" (1996–2003), "30 Rock" (2006–2013) and his 2010 buddy cop film "Cop Out" and hosting "Scare Tactics".
 He was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2009 for his work on "30 Rock".
 He has appeared in numerous films as an actor and voice actor.
The Guard is a 2011 Irish buddy cop comedy film written and directed by John Michael McDonagh, starring Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Mark Strong and Liam Cunningham.
 It is the most successful independent Irish film of all time in terms of Irish box-office receipts, overtaking "The Wind that Shakes the Barley" (2006), which previously held this status.
Alien Nation is a 1988 American buddy cop neo-noir science fiction action film directed by Graham Baker.
 The ensemble cast features James Caan, Mandy Patinkin and Terence Stamp.
 The film depicts the assimilation of the "Newcomers", an alien race settling in Los Angeles, much to the initial dismay of the local population.
 The plot integrates the neo-noir and buddy cop film genres with a science fiction theme, centering on a union between a veteran police investigator (Caan) and an extraterrestrial (Patinkin); the first Newcomer detective.
 The duo probe a criminal underworld attempting to solve a homicide.
War on Everyone is a 2016 British black comedy buddy cop film written and directed by John Michael McDonagh.
 The film stars Alexander Skarsgård, Michael Peña, and Theo James.
 Set and filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, it was screened in the Panorama section of the 66th Berlin International Film Festival.
 The film was released in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 7 October 2016 through Icon Film Distribution.
John Michael McDonagh is a screenwriter and film director with British and Irish nationality.
 He wrote and directed "The Guard" (2011) and "Calvary" (2014), both films starring Brendan Gleeson, receiving a BAFTA Award nomination for the former.
 He was born in London in 1967.
 He is the older brother of playwright and filmmaker Martin McDonagh.
Freebie and the Bean is a 1974 American action-comedy film about two off-beat police detectives who wreak havoc in San Francisco attempting to bring down a local organized crime boss.
 The picture, a precursor to the buddy cop film genre popularized a decade later, stars James Caan, Alan Arkin, Loretta Swit and Valerie Harper.
 Harper was nominated for the Golden Globe for New Star of the Year for playing the Hispanic wife of Alan Arkin.
 The film was directed by Richard Rush.
 An article in Rolling Stone magazine alleged that Stanley Kubrick called "Freebie and the Bean" the best film of 1974.
 Arkin and Caan would not appear in another movie together until the 2008 film adaptation of "Get Smart".
CHiPs is a 2017 American action comedy buddy cop film written and directed by Dax Shepard, based on the 1977–1983 television series of the same name created by Rick Rosner.
 The film stars Shepard as Officer Jon Baker and Michael Peña as Frank "Ponch" Poncherello, with Rosa Salazar, Adam Brody and Vincent D'Onofrio in supporting roles.

Question: John Michael McDonagh wrote and directed the buddy cop film from 2011 in which country?
Answer: Irish