America Quote by Peggy Johnson

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

— Duff McKagan

My nan and granddad are from Cork.

— Declan Rice

My grandfather was a travelling tinker in Cork.

— David Essex

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 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

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

— Chris Abani

All of my dad's family, his brothers and sisters, my nana and grandad and all of the cousins emigrated to Australia within two years…

— Genevieve O'Reilly

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

— Colm Wilkinson

I'm pleased to say I grew up in a happy family in Dublin. I feel we're very close.

— Domhnall Gleeson

I was gonna move to Ireland for a while. All my family lives out there.

— Angus Cloud

I've got my roots in Northern Ireland - my biological father's side of the family were from Belfast.

— KT Tunstall

The secret of my success is my mother, who was from Dublin. All my relations are in Dublin or in the west, or as…

— Judi Dench