Banks Quote by Pierce Brosnan

Childhood was fairly solitary. I grew up in a very small town called Navan in County Meath. I never knew my father. He left…

— Pierce Brosnan

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

— KT Tunstall

I grew up in a little village in the west of Ireland.

— Philip Treacy

I grew up in a small village in the west of Ireland.

— Louis Walsh

I spent a lot of time growing up in Ireland in Donegal.

— Matthew Broderick

My last name is originally Irish. I'm not exactly sure whereabouts it's from, but I've got family branches that were traced back there.

— Matthew McConaughey

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

— Colm Wilkinson

I grew up during one of Northern Ireland's most complex periods.

— Jonathan Anderson

It's hard to explain the je ne sais quoi of the land of Ireland, and Dublin, and County Meath. Y'know, it's like walking into…

— CMAT

I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987

— Paul Muldoon

My husband hailed from Dagenham; he's an Essex boy. Me myself, I come from Derry City in the northwest of Ireland, so we love…

— Roma Downey

I grew up in leafy suburbs in north and east Belfast, but if I had been born a mile down the road closer to…

— Mike Nesbitt