i never knew they were irish..

[GalwayBayBoy]

Martin Keown

I remember hearing he came from Kesh in Fermanagh, any truth in it?

Family are from Galway I believe. He's usually around Galway a fair bit most Summers anyway.

[GalwayBayBoy]

Che Guevara had links too on his paternal grandmother's side.

His great-grandfather, Patrick Lynch left Galway during the 1840's.

[Geoff Tipps]

Martin Keown

I remember hearing he came from Kesh in Fermanagh, any truth in it?

Family are from Galway I believe. He's usually around Galway a fair bit most Summers anyway.

Not sure where his family are from originally but has a sister living in Galway.

[Franko]

Declan Donnelly (Ant & Dec) has relations from Derry or Tyrone AFAIK.

[isourboydownyet]

Declan Donnelly (Ant & Dec) has relations from Derry or Tyrone AFAIK.

your 100% correct,his dad is from desertmartin of all places and has a uncle living in bellaghy

[AZOffaly]

Dare I mention Boy George? Oh, I just have.

Aye, 20 minutes after Seafoid had already mentioned it.

Keep up young man, keep up.

I never said I was first

[5 Sams]

Jason McAteer has tenous links with Newry.

[AZOffaly]

Jason McAteer has tenous links with Newry.

and John Aldridge with Athlone, but I presume we all knew they have some sort of Irish connection seeing as they played for Ireland. Tony Cornetto excepted.

[Dinny Breen]

Aidan Gillen aka as Mayor Carcetti from The Wire

[Dave]

Sam Allardyce

dont think so

he managed in the league of ireland years ago, think it was sligo rovers, he's English though

Thought it was Limerick. Maybe both?

You are correct LL it was Limerick.

[Dinny Breen]

Olivia Wilde has Irish citzenship aka 13 from House

[Donnellys Hollow]

Paul McCartney's mother was a Mohan from Monaghan
Kate Bush's mother was a Daly from...Clare??Neil Morrissey (Men Behaving Badly), family from Cullyhanna
Elvis Costello's real name is Declan Patrick McManus so I'd suggest some Irish input there

My duaghter assures me yer wan who plays Becky in Coronation St is from Kerry??

Sir Michael O'Dwyer, governor of the Punjab at the time of the massacre at Amritsar was a Tipp man.

Pretty sure I read recently that she was from Waterford.

All 4 members of The Smiths came from Irish families. Morrisey's father was from Crumlin. Would need to look it up but pretty sure Johnny Marr's parents are from Kildare.
John Lydon from the Sex Pistols also came from an Irish family. I think his father may have come from Tuam.
There's a load of other english musicians/artists that have Irish heritage.

Morrissey once said that The Smiths were more Irish than U2!

Johnny Maher's folks hailed from Athy. He changed his name to Marr to avoid confusion with The Buzzcock's drummer John Maher.

[red hander]

Why? The boy in The Smiths didn't play the drums 

[BarryBreensBandage]

James Smith, George Taylor, Matthew Thornton - three of the eight foreign signatories of the American Declaration of Independence, were Irish.

[Bogball XV]

Aidan Gillen aka as Mayor Carcetti from The Wire

that was a shock, not as big a shock as finding out that Stringer was a cockney boy, but....