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My mother and grandmother both had beautiful skin.

I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity.

On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.

Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.

The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese.

I'm not Irish. Just because I have red hair doesn't mean I'm a lucky charm, you know?

My soul is still Irish.

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.