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| This is a list of famous ] and Americans of Irish descent. It is not restricted to those born in Ireland nor those born to Irish nationals, and includes individuals with verifiable Irish ancestry. | |||
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| ===Actors=== | |||
| *] "Born Donald James Yarmy to a Hungarian-Jewish father and Irish Catholic mother..." | |||
| *] "Only half a Mick (mom's side-- Affleck is Scottish) sad to say..." | |||
| *], brother of Ben Affleck | |||
| *] "Big breasts, a near-perfect butt, Irish eyes, and dark, Portuguese skin." | |||
| *] "he would usually wind up in Chicago, the home of his mother's Irish-Catholic, lower-middle-class family whose humor Steve described as "sarcastic, volatile, sometimes disparaging, but very funny."" "When Steve Allen was 18 months old, his father died and Isabelle Donahue Allen placed her infant son in the care of her Chicago-based, Irish-Catholic family." | |||
| *] "The Irish-Catholic Baldwins lived in Nassau Shores" | |||
| *], brother of Alec Baldwin | |||
| *], brother of Alec Baldwin | |||
| *], ], ] & ], all descendants of Irish actor ] | |||
| *] "My mother's Irish--she went to school in London when she was young--but she's full-on Irish, you can trace it back as far as you want. My father is from Manchester, England, with the accent... Yeah--I consider myself American, and so does my family. I have a British passport, an Irish passport, and an American green card." | |||
| *] "He was born Edward James Begley in Hartford, Connecticut on March 25, 1901 of Irish immigrant parents." | |||
| *], son of ] | |||
| *] (a.k.a. William Cody) His father, "Dr. James Cody was born August 22, 1820, in the city of St. Johns, Newfoundland, of Irish parentage..." | |||
| *] "Being an Irish Chicagoan came with all the rites of passage for Boyle, including weekend trips with her mother to Notre Dame football games, Irish dance lessons, and braving the Windy City's frigid breezes to dance in the city's St. Patrick's Day parades... Boyle maintains that she is "seven-eighths Irish," a fact borne out by the traditions bestowed on her by her paternal grandmother, Helen O'Shaughnessy, her paternal grandfather, Jack Boyle, and her maternal grandmother, Kathleen Flynn, from whom she obtained the middle name "Flynn." Although neither side has definitively traced its Irish roots, Boyle believes that her maternal ancestors came from County Mayo, while her paternal side emigrated from Cork. "The Irish are a singing, storytelling people. And all of the Irish stereotypes were alive and well within my family," she said. In particular, she recalls the colorful stories told by her Great-grandfather Flynn. "That's what the holidays are for—for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?" she asked." | |||
| *] "Born William “Billy” Millar July 4th, 1931 at White House by Belfast, Northern Ireland." | |||
| *] "...wasn't all that unusual a choice for an Irish Catholic middle-class kid growing up in Philadelphia. Cop, priest, fireman, Brother. The options were limited." | |||
| *] "He was a distant, conservative man of French, English and Irish stock; the original family name was Brandeau." | |||
| *] "We're also both Irish. "Eccentric," she says. "When I was in Ireland recently, I went there to do a play, I picked up a book called Irish Eccentrics. I wouldn't be anything else. It's the saddest damn history I've ever seen, and now I can't get enough of Irish history. And, I married an Englishman." | |||
| *] "My father has Irish heritage. My mom took a trip to Ireland — a very short trip — and when she saw Ireland, she was like, “I’ve got to take my husband here because he will be amazed to see all his relatives.”" | |||
| *] "Edward Burns, writer, director, and featured actor in "The Brothers McMullen" is now being hailed as the Irish-American Woody Allen." | |||
| *] "Ellen Burstyn... raised by middle-class, Irish parents who later divorced when Ellen was still quite young." | |||
| *] "still something a little too real about this morgue-pale, floppy-thin Irish-Italian for him to count as a bona fide star." | |||
| *] "Born to a Native American father and an Irish mother, Gary Busey grew up in Oklahoma (Note Added: On "I'm With Busey" Gary has said that he's only one-eighth Native American..." | |||
| *] "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." | |||
| *] "The only son of an Italian Mother and Irish Father, Eddie was the second child..." | |||
| *] "Carlin... primarily raised by their mother...Mary Carlin, a devout Irish Catholic..." | |||
| *] "Carney was born into an Irish-Catholic family in Mount Vernon, N.Y., on Nov. 4, 1918, and baptized Arthur William Matthew Carney..." | |||
| *] "I’m actually a mixture of Irish, English, Scottish, Welsh, German, Spanish, Italian, Ukrainian and Cherokee. I have the attitude of an Irishman." | |||
| *] "She was born in Phoenix, Arizona in July 1951, to a family of Irish/Hispanic descent." | |||
| *] "Raised in Forest Hills, Queens, Caruso's Irish-Italian heritage is reminiscent of a youthful James Cagney." | |||
| *] "He came from working-class, Irish Catholic stock..." | |||
| *], son of Jack Cassidy | |||
| *] "My mom's 100 percent Irish, and in my family we've always called acting blarney." | |||
| *] ''grand-daughter of Irish-American ]'' | |||
| *] "When not working, Lenny would spend time kibitzing with his large, Irish family, sharing his unique blue-collar take on life." | |||
| *] "By all reports, the Clooneys are a close-knit, Irish-Catholic family, and George is fiercely loyal to his father." | |||
| *] "Clooney was born into a troubled family of Irish Catholics in Maysville, Kentucky, in 1928..." | |||
| *] "My grandfather was born in the US, and my great grandparents were Irish... Ultimately I’m an Irish Catholic Jew. I’m riddled with guilt!" | |||
| *] "Louis Francis Cristillo was born on March 6th 1906. His father was Italian and his mother was half French and half Irish." | |||
| *] "Costner's roots are Irish and German." | |||
| *] "born in Barstow, California, to George A. and Loretta Crain, nee Carr, of Irish descent" | |||
| *] "Bing’s mother was of Irish descent and his father was descended from a maritime family." | |||
| *] (Mila Kunis on Culkin) "Yeah. No my boyfriend was raised Irish Catholic... We consider him an honorary Jew." | |||
| *], brother of Macaulay Culkin | |||
| *], brother of Macaulay Culkin | |||
| *] "Born in Evanston, Illinois, USA on June 26, 1966, John Cusack was the son of an Irish Catholic family." | |||
| *], sister of John Cusack | |||
| *] "Given that Dawson is Puerto Rican and Afro-Cuban on her mother's side and Irish and Native American on her father's (her parents are divorced), one might wonder whether race has been an issue when it comes to landing roles." | |||
| *] "Brian Dennehy was a burly, light-haired supporting player... whose Irish charm and engaging grin made him a popular second-tier star in the 1980s." | |||
| *] "I'm part Italian, part Dutch, part French, part German and part Irish, but I probably identify more with my Italian side." | |||
| *] "Interviewer: German, Irish? Johnny Depp: Yeah. Poo-poo platter, yeah. Combination of weird things. Indian, Irish, German and god knows what." | |||
| *] "Christened Mary Cathleen Collins, she was known as Cathleen or Cathy in this Irish/German/Dutch-California family..." | |||
| *] "She has pinkish-fair skin and naturally dark hair, a combination of her black Irish and French ancestry -- "a natural goth," as she puts it." | |||
| *] "His parents, both Irish Americans, still live in the same large 1910s house where Matt grew up with his sister and four brothers." | |||
| *], brother of Matt Dillon | |||
| *] "From you name you are of Irish descent.....do you know the History of your family..? Shannen says to Alan: Yes I do - there was a Disney movie made about my great-great-great (!) grandmother!" | |||
| *] "The institute’s advisory board includes such American Irish luminaries as... actress Karen Duffy..." | |||
| *] "Patty's father, John Patrick Duke, was Irish and an alcoholic, and his father was a bartender with a nasty temper." | |||
| *] "Tall, stocky and darkly handsome with smiling Irish eyes, he was a natural for acting." | |||
| *] "Carmen Electra's heritage is Irish, German, and Cherokee." | |||
| *], son of ] | |||
| *] "Q: What nationality are you? A: Irish Italian" | |||
| *] ""I'm Irish, so I mean, please," gripes Fallon. "They should never stop selling alcohol in general." | |||
| *] "We were a large, Irish family growing up in the Midwest who wanted to see humor in everything." | |||
| *] "The daughter of the Australian director John Farrow and the Irish actress Maureen O'Sullivan, Mia Farrow was brought up in the Hollywood of the 1940s and 50s." | |||
| *] "Alice Jeanne Leppert was born on May 5, 1915, in Hell's Kitchen, New York and was the third child of her Irish Mother and German Father." | |||
| *] "A talented Irish actress whose redheaded independence off screen hampered her film career..." | |||
| *] "Speaking about his ancestors, Harrison Ford said that he is “Irish as a person but I feel Jewish as an actor.”" | |||
| *] "But I'm just a guy with an Irish face and Yiddish timing..." | |||
| *] "This half Irish, half Cuban actor can dance for six hours straight! "I'm proud to have the Latin hips," he says!" | |||
| *] "...with his full, pouting lips and black-Irish good looks - one of the most insolently sexy men in show business." | |||
| *] "She's a bonny lass, this Judy Garland, with a well turned leg, and a fine Scottish complexion (is gift from her "Irish Grandmother" she says)." | |||
| *] "This half-Italian, half-Irish, New Jersey transplant says she may have the leading role..." | |||
| *] "Garr’s Irish relatives emigrated from Cork to New York in the early part of the last century. “They started a mortuary in midtown and then they moved to Philadelphia.” Garr’s father, Eddie Garr, was an actor-comedian on the vaudeville circuit... “Aunt Alice was smart and funny and a great Irish Catholic. She went to Mass every day but she also liked to have a few drinks and tell dirty jokes. She was so great and sometime I think that’s where I get my humor.”" | |||
| *] "actor Mel Gibson was born in Peeksill, NY, to Irish Catholic parents." | |||
| *] "Jackie Gleason was definitely Irish. Born in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, Gleason’s mother was born in Ireland, while his father was Irish American." | |||
| *] "She says she rebelled against a strict Irish Catholic upbringing. Her parents counter that it wasn't especially rigid." | |||
| *] "LAUREN: Yeah, and you’re Irish and I’m Irish." | |||
| *] "And I don’t want to be comfortable. I’m 100% Irish Catholic, and what am I going to do?" | |||
| *] "She's a redhead, Irish and both sexy and funny." | |||
| *] "St. Patrick's Day celebrations this year were compromised by the news that theatrical legend Helen Hayes, who once described herself as "a little Irish biddy," had died of congestive heart failure..." | |||
| *] "Her parents were Irish and Swedish and thus her beautiful red mane and milky complexion." | |||
| *] "The forty-one-year-old Heaton, who grew up in an Irish Catholic family of five in Cleveland, readily admits that her own childhood was hardly fancy fare." | |||
| *] "Of French-Irish descent, his father Emmet senior was a dentist." | |||
| *] "...the half-Irish, half-German natural blonde was a child model for Sears catalogs before landing small roles in commercial work." | |||
| *] "How far out can a girl who grew up as one of three children in a German/Irish Catholic family go?" | |||
| *] "After growing up as part of a large Irish family (seven kids), she trained as a nurse and worked specifically with cancer patients." | |||
| *] "Many of the biographies on Keaton say that he was, indeed, Irish. But Keaton's sister Louise apparently believed that there back in the family history the Keatons had some Native American blood as well." | |||
| *] "DK: I'm an Irish Catholic. And you know what that means." | |||
| *] "Gene Kelly, born in 1912 in Philadelphia, was Irish on both sides of his family; he became renowned in Hollywood as a singer and dancer." | |||
| *] (On Kelly's parents) "The two were married on January 30, 1924, at which point Mrs. Kelly converted to Catholicism- Jack was a devout Irish Catholic." ''Grace Kelly's mother was of German descent, her father was of Irish descent'' | |||
| *] "Instead, the 29-year-old Irish-American New Yorker has been living off the independent film industry since 1993." | |||
| *] "I'm friggin' Irish, my name is Robert Patrick Kelly...I look like a little Mexican dishwasher, I don't know what the hell happened...maybe my mother had sex with the paper boy Raul." | |||
| *] "Agnes Kline, his mother, was of Irish descent and a Catholic, and Robert, his father, was Jewish... In fact, after this interview for Irish America, I have to rush off for another one with The Jewish Light." | |||
| *] "Lane sprouted from an Irish-Catholic neighborhood in Jersey City..." | |||
| *] "born November 29, 1898 in Chicago, the son of an Irish mother and French father." | |||
| *] "American-Irish comedian and the last angry man Denis Leary in-true-form defied Irish smoking laws and sparked-up numerous cigarettes during his sold-out Point concert at the weekend..." | |||
| *] "This place was a fair reflection of her Irish-Italian Catholic family's fortunes at this point." | |||
| *] "Of Irish and Polish descent, Eric Mabius grew up moving almost constantly." | |||
| *] "Maher's Irish-American father, a radio newscaster and later an NBC-TV news editor, was Roman Catholic. His mother, a nurse, was Jewish." | |||
| *] | |||
| *] | |||
| *] "The Irish-born actor intends to play Joe Astor..." | |||
| *] "McCarthy grew up in Chicago in an Irish Catholic family..." | |||
| *] | |||
| *] "Malachy McCourt was born in Brooklyn, USA and from the age of three was raised in Limerick, Ireland..." | |||
| *] "Waterbury, Connecticut, October 26, 1961 - Mark Anthony McDermott is born to a pair of Catholic teenagers: the Italian American Diane, only 15 years of age, and the Irish American Richard, just 17." ""I'm Irish", he says, pinching his cheeks, "It goes right to my face."" | |||
| *] "It was love at first sight, he says, tears puddling his ice-blue eyes. "She was, 'Who is this Irish guy?' She didn't understand." | |||
| *] "McGinley, whose paternal great-grandfather hailed from Donegal..." | |||
| *] "Very close to the dark shade that I have now. I am Irish after all and I come by the black hair and white skin thing naturally. Unlike Michael Jackson." | |||
| *] "Stiller first laid eyes on the young Irish gal that would one day become his wife, back in '53, as he waited in a talent agent's office." | |||
| *] "The son of Irish immigrants, Thomas Mitchell came from a family of journalists and civic leaders; his nephew, James Mitchell, later became the U.S. Secretary of Labor." | |||
| *] "Those feelings are not because I had at one dark time been a Liberal, but because I’m Irish-American." | |||
| *] "...she is Irish on both sides of her family. Her mother’s family are Moriartys from County Donegal and County Clare. Her father’s side are Moynahans from County Cork. She has visited Ireland many times, and has an Aunt Bridget in Ireland who was delighted to meet her, largely because she was so happy that her name was being passed along..." | |||
| *] "And his terrific personality and good looks, (he is ¼ Italian, ¼ Irish and ½ Puerto Rican) have made him a heartthrob." | |||
| *] "Murray, who will be spending more time at home in upstate New York, has come a distance from his humble Irish roots. Growing up in a large Catholic family in the suburbs of Chicago, Murray was one of nine children of Lucille and Edward Murray, a lumber salesman." | |||
| *], brother of Bill Murray | |||
| *] ''On Nicholson's maternal grandparents:'' "She began as Ethel May Rhoads of Chester, Pennsylvania, only daughter of upright Pennsylvania Dutch Protestants, and when she married John Nicholson, a working class Irish Catholic, her irate family broke their ties and disinherited her." | |||
| *] "Born in New York of Irish parents, Edmond O'Brien starred on Broadway prior to becomming a leading man of the forties." | |||
| *] "The voters chose as the 94th selection an Irish-American actor who personified the Church in film - William Joseph Patrick O'Brien better known to film buffs as Pat O'Brien, the rugged actor who starred in films from the thirties to the early eighties." | |||
| *] "Jerry O'Connell and his younger brother Charlie (Sliders) have always been close. "We're Irish twins, 14 months apart," says Jerry, 30." | |||
| *] "Born in the Bronx, NY, to an upper-middle-class Irish family, his father was a well-connected attorney and his mother was a school teacher." | |||
| *] "O'Connor was born in Chicago, the seventh son of circus performers who went into vaudeville. His Irish-born father, John "Chuck" O'Connor, who died when his son was six months old, was a circus strongman and acrobat." | |||
| *] "When he called his Irish-Catholic parents back in Chicago to tell them about it, his mother was so upset she hung up on him." | |||
| *] "I come from an Irish Catholic family that suffered a tragedy where emotions weren't dealt with on any kind of real level." | |||
| *] "She was born in Ranelagh, Ireland, on August 17, 1920, as Maureen FitzSimons, the second oldest child of Charles and Marguerita FitzSimons." "And, since I am now an American citizen, I can speak for the people of the United States." | |||
| *] "One of seven children born into a wealthy Irish-American family..." "The O'Keefe name forever associates him with the Emerald Isle and the third generation Irishman has relatives living in Wicklow, Limerick and Cork..." | |||
| *] "I am, in this moment, a part of the O'Malley clan and we're in Massachusetts; so, technically, I'm Irish and this shouldn't be a problem." | |||
| *] "The bride's father, the hotheaded Irish-American actor Ryan O'Neal..." | |||
| *], daughter of ] | |||
| *] "Peck’s maternal grandmother, Katherine Ashe, a native of Dingle Co. Kerry raised her son—Peck’s father, partly in her native county... When talking about Ireland Peck has been quoted as saying: “The Irish influence has been a big thing in my life. Kind of an anchor–it means a lot to me,” and “I feel drawn to Ireland; I feel a sense of coming home.”" | |||
| *] (Penn's mother) "EILEEN RYAN PENN: I'm half-Irish, half-Italian, I'm a practising Catholic, I was married to a non-practising Jew for forty-one years..." | |||
| *], brother of Sean Penn | |||
| *] "I'm kind of a mutt, part Swedish, German, Dutch, Irish and Swiss, but sometimes I am a little mad, like the Swedes." | |||
| *] "Around the age of 14, the Irish Catholic was attracted to the calm and order of the orders, but her final career decision was helped along by the fact that she was married and pregnant at 19." | |||
| *] "Power's Irish great-grandfather and namesake, Tyrone (1795–1841), was a popular actor and comedian..." | |||
| *] "We're Irish Catholic Russian Jewish. I'm a total mutt." | |||
| *] "KING: Lest we forget, you are half Irish. ANTHONY QUINN: Yes, half Irish... KING: So your father was Irish? ANTHONY QUINN: Half Irish, yes. KING: Your mother was Mexican. ANTHONY QUINN: Yes. KING: How did they meet? ANTHONY QUINN: Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico." | |||
| *] "Born in Brooklyn, New York, Colin Quinn has come to represent the quintessential Irish American comedian: pissed off, cynical and hilarious." | |||
| *] "Now 39, John Reilly grew up in a tough neighbourhood on the south side of Chicago. He was the fifth of six children born to a Lithuanian mother and an Irish-Catholic father." | |||
| *] "The Italian blood has been bred out of me. There's an Italian four or five generations back who married an Irish woman and they all had sons. So they married more Irish women, there were more sons, and more Irish women. Now I'm basically Scots-Irish." | |||
| *] "The Irish American Robards performed in Eugene O'Neill's plays like a blood brother to that moody genius: quixotic, haunted, drink- and guilt-ridden, with a hint of self-destructive violence and a swift and changeable charm." | |||
| *] ''on Roberts' father:'' "Walter, of Irish, Scottish, and Welsh extraction on his father's side and English-Scottish extraction on his mother's..." | |||
| *] "modest beginnings in the Bronx, the daughter of a pen salesman (Irish) and a Jewish mother (who were divorced before she reached high school)." | |||
| *] "And get this? Washed-up Irish American actor Mickey Rourke was at the center of controversy." | |||
| *] "Born in Queen's, New York, of both Irish and Cuban descent..." | |||
| *] "CrankyCritic: So where does Mary come from? Molly Shannon: It's a lot based on my own experience. I'm from an Irish Catholic family." | |||
| *] "He was born Ramon Estevez in 1940, in Ohio, the seventh of 10 children of a Spanish immigrant father and an Irish mother." | |||
| *], son of Martin Sheen | |||
| *] "The blonde actress grew up with a father who was an alcoholic, as were many of her relatives - and she believes her heritage has a lot to do with it. She says, "My people are from Ireland so we have a bit of a drinking problem." | |||
| *] "Brought up in a strict Irish Catholic family with an alcoholic father, Ms. Stapleton left home..." | |||
| *] "My heritage is, my dad's side of the family is Irish, my mom's side of the family is Italian and English, so I basically have all the countries in Europe that hate each other..." | |||
| *] "Being of Irish and Jewish heritage, Stiller’s parents, serve green matzoh ball soup during their annual Saint Patrick’s Day dinner... Stiller’s great-grandfather, James Meara came to the United States from Liverpool aboard the Parthia on 19 May 1881." | |||
| *] "The oldest of a large Irish Catholic family, Julia's first step on the path to disillusion comes when her mother tells her that her birthday is in October, not September." | |||
| *] "L.A. residents are famous (and ridiculed) for their reluctance to flout jaywalking laws, but "it was my Boston Irish Catholic upbringing" that stopped her, she explains." | |||
| *] "I'd have to eat every two weeks. I'm sturdy Irish stock. I can lift things." | |||
| *] "Thornton's dad, whom he describes as "a hotheaded, Irish basketball coach who just wanted to play ball," died when the filmmaker had just turned 18." | |||
| *] "His father John Tracy was Irish; his mother Caroline Brown Tracy could trace her ancestors back to American Colonial days." | |||
| *] "But John Travolta has more of a claim than others being half Irish on his mother Helen's side and growing up in a predominantly Irish neighbourhood in New Jersey. His mother was also a drama coach. Although the Italian side of his lineage is what he is most recognised for, Travolta himself sees it differently. He told Plus Magazine recently, "The emotional, romantic, whimsical part of me is Irish. Spiritually, I probably feel more like an Irishman - that's where my heart is."" | |||
| *] "The big-eyed, freckle-faced twenty-five-year-old Irish-American actress from the South Side of Chicago..." | |||
| *] "I'm half Protestant and half Catholic, parts Irish, Italian, English, Lebanese and German. I was never 100% welcome in any club and I think that's a real blessing." | |||
| *] "The youngest of nine children in a strict Irish Catholic family, Wahlberg spent much of his teen years dealing drugs and picking fights on the streets of Dorchester, Mass., a working-class section of Boston." | |||
| *], brother of Mark Wahlberg | |||
| *] "Wayne’s mother Mary was of Irish descent, and the Duke said “she was a tiny, vivacious red-headed bundle of energy." | |||
| *] "Wilson grew up in Dallas, the middle child of Irish Catholic parents who were both funny and creative; his mother is a photographer, his father a writer. The family is prone to a melancholy moodiness, an "Irish strain of depression," Wilson said, that goes back generations. "The Irish way of dealing with that is humor," he added." | |||
| *], brother of Owen Wilson | |||
| ===Arts=== | |||
| *] - sculptor "1876-1943, b. Patrick Jeremias in Co. Kerry, son of small farmer; family emigrated to Massachusetts..." | |||
| *] - dancer "The important thing to know about Michael Flatley is that he's Irish-American... His success comes from his ability to join unlikely elements together—Irish and Americans, step dancing and flamenco, pretension and frivolity." | |||
| *] - painter "William Harnett American, born Ireland, 1848(?)-1892" | |||
| *] - painter "Of Irish and Hungarian ancestry, Georgia O'Keeffe was born on a farm in Sun Prairie, Wis...." | |||
| *] - painter "He was one of the earliest Irish-born artists in America." | |||
| *] - sculptor "Augustus Saint-Gaudens was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1848 to an Irish mother and a French father." | |||
| ===Business=== | |||
| *] - financier and philanthropist "Born in 1856 into an Irish immigrant family who ran a saloon on the Lower East Side..." | |||
| *] - billionaire philanthropist | |||
| *] - founder of ] "Ford was born on 30 July 1863 in Dearborn, Michigan, the son of Irish immigrants who fled the potato famine in the 1840s." | |||
| *] - lawyer, president of the ], prosecuted the trial against the ] "Franklin Gowen, the fifth son of a Irish immigrant, was born in Philadelphia in 1836..." | |||
| *] - founder of ] "On his father's side there was the Irish connection, his grandfather coming from Tipperary and his paternal grandmother from Cork..." | |||
| *] - entrepreneur "grew up in the suburb Orland Park, to a Croatian-Irish family..." | |||
| *] - Former CEO of GE "The Irish-Catholic kid who learned to play golf as a 12-year-old caddy beat a champion..." | |||
| ===Film directors/producers=== | |||
| *] "his father, Elias Disney, an Irish-Canadian, and his mother, Flora Call Disney, who was of German-American descent." | |||
| *] "John Ford was born John Martin Feeney, February 1, 1894, at his father's farm in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, the child of Irish immigrants. The Irish were a ghettoised minority, then, and it was only toward the end of his life, Ford said, when Kennedy was elected president, that he felt like a first-class citizen. He grew up in Portland, where his father had a bar." | |||
| *] "Mel Gibson was born in Peeksill, NY, to Irish Catholic parents." | |||
| *] "He was the youngest child of an East End family whose father ran a poulterer's and greengrocer's business and whose mother came of Irish stock. The family was Catholic." "In 1955, he became an American citizen." | |||
| *] "Also, my heritage is Irish from my father's side so there is an affinity to this material." | |||
| *] "Leo McCarey was the first son of Irish-Catholic Thomas McCarey, a well-known boxing promoter, and French-born Leona McCarey, for whom he is named." | |||
| *] "Moore, now 49, was raised in a working-class Irish-American family." | |||
| ===Gangsters=== | |||
| *] - ], ] "Irish-American mob boss, James Whitey Bulger, and his accomplice..." | |||
| *] - ], Gangland assassin | |||
| *] - ], depicted by ] in '']'' "Jimmy Burke, an Irish American cast in the mould of a mean and deadly gangster..." | |||
| *] - ], retired mob leader | |||
| *] - ], ], Irish enforcer for the ] "examines Coll's roots in rural Ireland and his background of poverty..." | |||
| *] - ], ], ] leader | |||
| *] - ], attempted assassin of ] | |||
| *] - ], bootlegger | |||
| *] - ], gangster and ] "Arthur "Butchy" Doe Jr. was an Irish-American mobster from Charlestown, Massachusetts..." | |||
| *] - ], ] gangster | |||
| *] - ], ], ] member | |||
| *] - ], gunman, Monk Eastman and Five Points Gang member | |||
| *] - ], hitman for ] | |||
| *] - ], ] member | |||
| *] - ], ], ] "Vannie Higgins:. Brooklyn’s Last Irish Boss..." | |||
| *], ], basis for '']'' "Henry Hill was born to an Irish father and Sicilian mother in Brooklyn, NY in 1941..." | |||
| *] - member of the '']'' Gang, killed Winter Hill Gang boss ] during Boston's ] | |||
| *] - assassin for ], brother of Cornelius Hughes | |||
| *] - Memphis, Oklahoma, New Mexico, bootlegger, kidnapper | |||
| *] - ], ] gangster | |||
| *] - ] ] gang leader | |||
| *] - ], boss of the ] ] Mob | |||
| *] - ] Charlestown Mob leader | |||
| *] - ] ] | |||
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| *] - ] Teamsters muscle and mob hit man | |||
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| *] - ], prolific ] "tough Irish kid born in 1901 and raised near the Brooklyn, NY, docks..." | |||
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| ===Law=== | |||
| *] - United States Supreme Court Justice "The second of eight children born to Irish immigrants..." | |||
| *] - former ] of the United States "He was born in Yonkers 42 years ago, the second of four children in a middle-class Irish-American family." | |||
| *] - current ] "His parents were Irish-born and he grew up in a working-class Irish American community..." | |||
| *] - United States Supreme Court Justice "Ethnicity Irish" | |||
| *] - Chief Justice of the ] from 1964 to 1970 | |||
| ===Literature=== | |||
| *] "Born in Chicago in 1888 to Irish parents, Chandler grew up in Ireland, where his mother fled after his father abandoned them. His mother's family moved to England later, in part for his education." | |||
| *] "Kate Chopin was born Katherine O'Flaherty on February 8, 1850 of an Irish and French descent in St. Louis, Missouri." | |||
| *] "Mary Higgins Clark is of Irish descent. " The Irish are, by nature, storytellers," says Clark, who considers her Irish heritage an important influence on her writing." | |||
| *] "says Conroy, his blue Irish eyes hardening, his red Irish cheeks flushing..." | |||
| *] "Among the day's highlights will be a round-table discussion of the ''Irish-American Experience'' at 5 PM with the writers... Elizabeth Cullinan..." | |||
| *] "J. P. Donleavy became an Irish citizen in 1967 and now lives on the shores of Lough Owel near Mullingar, County Westmeath." | |||
| *] "Born to Irish immigrants on Chicago's West Side in 1867, Finley Peter Dunne began a career as a newspaperman..." | |||
| *] "James T. Farrell was an Irish-American writer..." | |||
| *] "F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St Paul, Minnesota of mixed Southern and Irish descent...." | |||
| *] "THOMAS FLANAGAN (1923–2002), the grandson of Irish immigrants, grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut..." | |||
| *] "on my father’s side, both paternal grandparents were the parents of white Irish fathers and black slave mothers. Therefore, I’m part Irish. I can’t feel Irish to save my soul, but it’s a fact." | |||
| *] "before Kennedy's Irish brethren left the committee rooms..." | |||
| *] "His coming-of-age memoir of growing up in the rabidly Irish-Catholic..." | |||
| *] "In 1965, using this money, he left America on the liner Sylvania, intending to visit the home of his Irish ancestors..." | |||
| *] "Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland..." | |||
| *] "Malachy McCourt was born in Brooklyn, USA and from the age of three was raised in Limerick, Ireland." | |||
| *] "Like a lot of us in recent years, Tim O'Brien got to be curious about his Irish heritage..." | |||
| *] "Edwin O'Connor wrote about the Irish. Not the near mythical folk of the Emerald Isle, but the gritty, down-to-earth, American Irish of which he was one..." | |||
| *] "Ethnicity Irish" | |||
| *] "O'Hara was ethnically Irish, and it is well known the Irish aren't very far removed from the days..." | |||
| *] "O'Hara was born to Irish Catholic parents in Pottsville, Pennsylvania..." | |||
| *] "His parents, both Irish Catholic but from different social classes, always seemed to communicate "in code"..." | |||
| *] "He was greatly beloved for his winning personality and his fervid Irish temperament..." | |||
| *] "He has always been proud of his part Cherokee and part Irish ancestry..." | |||
| *] "War correspondent, journalist, editor, and author, Cornelius Ryan was born in Dublin, Ireland on June 5, 1920." | |||
| *] "is one of four children raised in an Irish Catholic family. His mother, a Kelly, was first-generation Irish-American. His father was from a farm in Westmeath, which still belongs to the family..." | |||
| *] "Spillane, the only child of an Irish bartender and a Scottish mother..." | |||
| *] "The pagan part connects me to all of my roots - my African, my Scottish, Irish, Native American, all connected at that pagan root." | |||
| ===Media/Journalists=== | |||
| *] "In this racial maelstrom, there was one Globe man who was trusted on the gritty streets of South Boston, a young Irish columnist named Mike Barnicle..." | |||
| *] "His book has been criticized for its intemperate remarks about the Irish and their American great-grandchildren, but if Jimmy Breslin is not qualified to make those judgments... who is?" | |||
| *] "Miss Bly was, in fact, the daughter of Irish immigrants." | |||
| *] "Mr. Buckley is an anomaly in American life, a man who has been made, or who made himself, systematically déclassé. "I never knew I was an Irish Catholic until I ran for mayor of New York," he once told Martin Nolan..." | |||
| *] "Look, I'm half-Italian and half-Irish. I figure I was born with a temper..." | |||
| *] | |||
| *] columnist for the ] | |||
| *] "When he and Buchanan squared off on camera to debate the recent Pledge of Allegiance court ruling, they were just another pair of wealthy, middle-aged, white Irish Catholic men pontificating." | |||
| *] "Dowd is assumed by most people to be a Democrat... in reality she was part of this kind of Irish-Catholic mafia that included Chris Matthews and Mike Kelly..." | |||
| *] "Mort's Dad, the original Morton Downey, was an Irish tenor and a very big star in the 1930's and 40's." | |||
| *] "Patrick Ford, the noted Irish journalist, was born in Galway, Ireland, the son of Edward and Anne (Ford) Ford..." | |||
| *] "Born in Brooklyn in 1935, of Irish immigrant parents, Pete Hamill served in the US Navy, attended Mexico City College..." | |||
| *] "Hannity, a proclaimed devout Irish Catholic, has blamed liberals for actions taken..." | |||
| *] | |||
| *] "But Chris Matthews, the Irish-American host of MSNBC's political talk show "Hardball,"..." | |||
| *] police reporter for the ] | |||
| *] "I pick Dublin because I was there most recently, and also because I'm Irish-American..." | |||
| *] "O'Brien, the proud Irishman, clad very casually in denims and navy blue shirt..." | |||
| *] "O'Brien was named to Irish American Magazine's "Top 100 Irish Americans" on two occasions." "Soledad O’Brien brings her unique heritage of Latino, Irish, and African-American cultures..." | |||
| *] "O’Donnell has also been named to Irish American Magazine’s 2000 “Top 100 Irish Americans” list." | |||
| *] "He was raised Irish-Catholic in Long Island, NY..." | |||
| *] "He was the son of an English woman of aristocratic origins and an Irish-born..." | |||
| *] "Part of an Irish-American catholic family, he was the eldest son of Frank and Florence..." | |||
| *] "I'm proud of my Irish heritage, but I'm not Irish. I'm not even Irish-American. I am American, period." | |||
| *] "As you may recall, Ed Sullivan, whose heritage was Irish ..." | |||
| *] "Born in New Jersey of a Puerto Rican father and Irish American mother, and a self-described army brat..." | |||
| *] "I don't know if it comes from being Irish or Catholic or both...." | |||
| ===Military=== | |||
| *] - father of the ] "John Barry was born in a modest thatched cottage in 1745 at Ballysampson on Our Lady's Island, which is part of Tacumshin Parish in County Wexford, Ireland..." | |||
| *] - ] ] "Patrick Cleburne a North Georgia Notable Born: County Cork, Ireland, March 17, 1828(St. Patrick's Day)" | |||
| *] - United States Army general "A policeman in Ireland, Michael Corcoran became a symbol of what an Irishman -- and a Fenian -- could make of himself in the New World..." | |||
| *] - leader of] "Hickey is the son of working-class Irish immigrants..." | |||
| *] - ] general "LEWIS, Andrew, soldier, born in Donegal, Ireland, about 1720" | |||
| *] - ] general, ] "THOMAS Francis Meagher, Irish nationalist. captain in the 69th New York State Militia at 1st Manassas, and Civil War general..." | |||
| *] - ] general "MONTGOMERY, RICHARD (1736-1775), American soldier, was born in Co. Dublin, Ireland, in 1736..." | |||
| *] - most decorated combat soldier of ] "One of the countless young Irish Americans queuing up in front of the recruitment offices was Audie Murphy from Greenville, Texas..." | |||
| *] - ], ] "His parents, Irish immigrants, were Thomas and Mary (Lundy) Murphy..." | |||
| *] - captain in ] "The shamrock centered at the top of the pile alludes to Jeremiah O'Brien's Irish ancestry..." | |||
| *] - ] general, ] "General John O'Neill arrived in the United States from Ireland in 1848..." | |||
| *] - high ranking ] expert | |||
| *] - Revolutionary War heroine "She survived her husband many years, known of course as Molly McCauly, and the statements so frequently made that Molly Pitcher was a young Irish woman..." | |||
| *] - ], ], ] "John and Mary Minah Sheridan, Philip's parents, came to America in 1830 at the urging of John's uncle, Thomas Gainor, living in Albany, New York. John and Mary were second degree cousins from County Cavan, Ireland." | |||
| *] - ] general "General John Sullivan: His Irish Family Background" | |||
| ===Music=== | |||
| *] "Mike: I learned that your dad is Irish, and your mom is Dutch Indonesian and French." | |||
| *] "Irish-American recording artist Chris Byrne, familiar to Irish music fans as Seanchai (pronounced SHAN-a-kee), and as a founder of the Irish musical group, Black 47..." | |||
| *] "I've always said that my father is half black and half Venezuelan and my mother is Irish. But people don't understand... They can't fathom that I'm African American, Venezuelan and Irish." | |||
| *] ] member | |||
| *] "Ken Casey’s Boston-Irish immigrant family experience is in many ways very similar..." | |||
| *] "Clooney was born into a troubled family of Irish Catholics in Maysville, Kentucky, in 1928..." | |||
| *] "For Cohan, the spirit of Ireland thrived in the large Irish-American communities of New York, Boston and his native Providence. To be Irish in America was, for him, to be an American with a proud ancestral heritage." | |||
| *] "I was born with the Irish virus. That's easy. I came by it honestly through centuries and centuries of ancestors, I am sure..." | |||
| *] - lead singer of ] "Chris rebelled against his Irish Catholic upbringing..." | |||
| *] "I never really knew about my ancestors until this year when I learned that the name Cobain was Irish. My parents had never bothered to find that stuff out..." | |||
| *] "Bing’s mother was of Irish descent and his father was descended from a maritime family." | |||
| *] "heritage Irish" | |||
| *] "Irish-American trombonist Tommy Dorsey, more than two years younger (according to recently unearthed baptismal papers) than his clarinetist and alto saxophonist brother Jimmy..." | |||
| *] "carving out an image which drew heavily on Everlast and Danny Boy's shared Irish heritage..." | |||
| *] "The daughter of Irish-American vaudeville singers..." | |||
| *] "Victor Herbert, an Irish-born American composer and conductor of operettas and light music..." | |||
| *] "The project would be loosely based on Keys growing up in a multiracial family (her mother is Irish-Italian, and her father is Jamaican)." | |||
| *] "For Dave King, the Dublin-born singer/guitarist/songwriter of SideOneDummy recording group Flogging Molly..." | |||
| *] "Larry Kirwan, a native of Wexford on the southeast coast of Ireland, writes the songs of Black 47..." | |||
| *], daughter of ] and (half) sister of ] "and developed the powerful Irish charm and sense of style that stayed with him for the rest of his life. My family has sometimes survived on charm alone." | |||
| *] "Barry Alan Pincus, his father an Irish-American truck driver, his mother the daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants, grew up poor in Brooklyn." | |||
| *] "Nationality: Irish, English and Scottish" | |||
| *] "Gerry Mulligan, of Irish German ancestry, was born in New York in 1927..." | |||
| *] "Basically I’m.. if you really want to know my ethnic background... I’m a quarter Irish and a Quarter English. My father’s side of the Family was English and they came here in 1630. And my mother’s side of the family... there was a potato famine." | |||
| *] "show is a evening of songs and stories based on Quinn's early life in Dublin..." | |||
| *] "If there are clues to Patti's complexity in her Italian/black-Irish ancestry or her working-class childhood in Pitman, New Jersey..." | |||
| *] "Well my background is Greek and something called Black Irish. It’s an ethnic Irish. It’s not the blonde haired blue eyed Irish. My mom can almost look Spanish. She has really dark dark eyes. So it’s basically like an Italian Irish or a Spanish Irish. It’s dark. So yeah, Greek and ]..." | |||
| *] "Tom is Scottish and Irish from his father's side of the family and Norwegian from his mother's side." | |||
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| *] - ] "aka Billy Bonney, from his birth in New York's Irish slums..." | |||
| *] - first female commander of a ] "The Irish American contribution to space exploration has continued in recent years with astronauts Kathryn Sullivan and Eileen Collins..." | |||
| *] - ], printed the first copies of the ] "John Dunlap, born in Ireland in 1747..." | |||
| *] - ] as a ] in ] "A native of Ireland, she had been sold as a slave in Barbados..." | |||
| *] - world poker champion "Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts of Irish descent..." | |||
| *] - ] of the ] in ] "Hoban studied at the Dublin Society School in Dublin before emigrating to the United States of America..." | |||
| *] - Frontiers Woman | |||
| *] - ] "the highest ranking Irish American in the Dinkins administration..." | |||
| *] - countercultural icon "Timothy Leary was born in October 1920, the son of an Irish-American Catholic dentist who left the family when Timothy was a teenager..." | |||
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| *] - chairman of ] and performer "Now in his early 50s, McMahon still retains that boyhood charm that most Irish kids growing up in New York possessed in the 1920s." | |||
| *] - wrestling promoter, son of Vince McMahon | |||
| *] - ] executive and occasional performer, son of Vincent J. McMahon | |||
| *] - ] executive and occasional performer, daughter of Vincent J. McMahon | |||
| *] - first immigrant to be processed at Ellis Island | |||
| *] - chess player "His parents were Judge Alonzo Morphy of the High Court of Louisiana and a West Indian Lady, Thelcide Carpentier whose father Joseph Carpentier, was French. His father's nationality was Spanish, but he was of Irish origin..." | |||
| *] - "Regarded as the Father of American Architecture, Louis H. Sullivan was born on September 3, 1856 in Boston's South End to an Irish father and a French-Swiss mother..." | |||
| *] - Philadelphia Police Commissioner "John F. Timoney. Mr. Timoney, a native of Dublin, Ireland, immigrated to the United States at the age of 13..." | |||
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| ===People with distant Irish ancestry=== | |||
| * ], Irish maternal Great-Grandfather | |||
| * ], Astronaut, first man on the moon | |||
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| * ], signatory to the ] (Scotch-Irish) | |||
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| * ], New York governor, Irish maternal grandmother | |||
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