Cork Quote by David Essex

My nan and granddad are from Cork.

— Declan Rice

My grandfather John came from Cork. I have six degrees of separation in Ireland.

— Duff McKagan

My father was educated in Cork, in the University of Cork, in the '50s.

— Chris Abani

Apparently, my grandfather left from Cork to America without saying goodbye to his mother! The family in Longford is still not happy about that.

— Peggy Johnson

My blue-grey Irish eyes are from my grandfather, who was a travelling tinker.

— David Essex

My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look…

— Anonymous

Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.

— Maria Edgeworth

My father was from Belfast; my mother was from Crossmolina. I grew up in Dublin.

— Colm Wilkinson

My father left Ireland because he did not want to muck horse manure for the rest of his life, and he wanted to come…

— Denis Leary

My dad's Irish, so I was visiting Ireland a lot as a kid, so it's not totally foreign to me.

— Katherine Ryan

I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin.

— Greta Scacchi

My uncle was a photographer for 'The Irish Times.'

— Roisin Murphy