My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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 very religious. My mother came from Co Donegal to work in the shirt factory in Derry when she met my father.
My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish.
I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.
My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.
My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over women's rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old.
As you may know, I was raised in an Italian Catholic family in Baltimore, Maryland.
My parents were Belfast Catholics.