My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an electrical engineer, and my mom is in microbiology.
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I grew up in a little village in the west of Ireland.
My father was educated in Cork, in the University of Cork, in the '50s.
My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
I'm from an Irish Catholic family.
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.
My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur.
I grew up in northwest London on a council estate. My parents are Irish immigrants who came over here when they were very young and worked in menial jobs all their lives, and I'm one of many siblings.
My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn.
On my mother's side, I come from Midlands engineers and, on my father's, from tenant farmers near Oxford.
I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987.