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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.

You gotta understand, my great-grandfather was German and Irish. My grandmother was Indian, and my grandfather was African-American, so we all got a little something in us.

My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.

My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish.

My father was a creature of the archaic world, really. He would have been entirely at home in a Gaelic hill-fort. His side of the family, and the houses I associate with his side of the family, belonged to a traditional rural Ireland.

My parents are Irish, my grandparents are Irish, my great-grandparents are Irish. I was born in England; my blood is Irish.

My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was a beautiful country, and both the women and men were good-looking.

I'm such an odd mix of things. My grandfather was Indian: I've got more family living in India than I do in the U.K. My old man was East London. I was brought up in Yorkshire. My great-grandfather was Irish.

My great-great-great uncle - or maybe it's only two 'greats' - crossbred the first Aberdeen Angus.

I'm from an Irish Catholic family.