I must admit, even though I'm the product of two Jewish parents, I think the Irish temper got in there somewhere, so I'm going to check Mom's genealogy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I am an unusual Irishman. I'm probably Ireland's third most famous Jewish son.
People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.
My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish.
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 at the old homestead.
I'm from an Irish Catholic family.
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA.
I remember as a kid being asked if I was Jewish or Irish. I said, like the glib little 15-year-old I was, 'You can be both.' Feeling very pleased with myself. Before they smacked me.
There might well have been an Irish great-great-grandfather of mine back then in the 1800s.
My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn.