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I'm from an Irish Catholic family.

My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn.

I was raised Catholic.

I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics.

My parents were very religious. My mother came from Co Donegal to work in the shirt factory in Derry when she met my father.

I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.

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 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.

I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that's all I ever was associated with.

I come from a magnetic field of Catholicism. I was baptised by my mother's family, who were all traditional Catholics. But my mother was the black sheep of the family - she ran away to the ballet at 17.