Born and raised Quote by Victoria Wilson

We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately,…

— Jimmy Carter

Hindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.

— Marianne Moore

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 family, although they're very large on both my parents' sides, they don't know much about their family tree. Occasionally, they try to dig,…

— Anonymous

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 mother was born on a tiny farm in County Mayo. She was meant to stay at home and look after the farm while…

— Julie Walters

I grew up in the prolonged survival of the great age of the horse, with harness and saddle and sleigh bells and horse pictures,…

— Paul Engle

My grandparents were all born in the U.S., but their parents came from Ireland.

— Michael Connelly

My nan and granddad are from Cork.

— Declan Rice

Mum and I were delighted to find out we were descended from 'bog-trotters.'

— Jasmine Guinness

I'm used to riding horses. My father used to breed horses when I was a child. I grew up in Tipperary, in the country,…

— Kerry Condon

“It is surprising how many great men started out as horse thieves.”

— P.J. Sullivan