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Quiz
How much do you know about the Irish heritage of these famous people?
Ed Sheeran this week said he identifies culturally as Irish – despite being born and raised in England.
GALWAY GIRL SINGER Ed Sheeran this week said he identifies culturally as Irish – despite being born and raised in England.
While he was brought up in Suffolk, Sheeran has a large Irish family and said he would spend his holidays in the country as a child.
“I class my culture as Irish. I think that’s what I grew up with,” Sheeran told the latest episode of The Louis Theroux Podcast.
After Sheeran’s announcement that he identifies “culturally” as Irish, we want to test your knowledge on the supposed Irishness of these famous figures:
“My dad is Irish,” remarked Sheeran on The Louis Theroux podcast. Where is his dad from?
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Cork
Belfast
Limerick
Galway
Former US president Barack Obama famously has Irish roots, but to where?
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Ballina, Co Mayo
Moneygall, Co Offaly
Carlingford, Co Louth
Virginia, Co Cavan
The DUP recently commissioned a report into the supposed Scots-Irish heritage of a US politician but came up short and found no connection. Who is the politician in question?
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Donald Trump
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Lindsey Graham
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Marco Rubio
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JD Vance
Which famous celebrity loves to holiday in Ireland but this month said they have given up on their ambition to gain Irish citizenship?
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Kim Kardashian
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Jeremy Irons
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Sarah Jessica Parker
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Matt Damon
While the above celebrity has given up their hopes of an Irish passport, Rosie O’Donnell said she is in the process of getting hers. Why did she move to Ireland?
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For a new job
To 'escape' Trump
For the scenery
She choose Ireland at random from a map
Model and actress Emily Ratajkowski has grandmothers who are both from Ireland and her artist father has a farmhouse in Bantry, Co Cork. He has a book featuring drawings of which animals found in fields near his Bantry home?
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Cows
Chickens
Pigs
Horses
Mission Impossible star Tom Cruise previously said he can trace his Irish ancestry back to the ninth century and that research on his family showed they owned “most” of a city at “a certain point”? What was the city?
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Tipperary
Galway
Cork
Dublin
Former Sex Pistol John Lydon, once known as Johnny Rotten, has strong Cork roots. What did he say the ‘local boys would slag me off for’ when he visited during the summer as a child?
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His name
His fashion sense
His Cockney accent
His music taste
Conan O’Brien is of Irish descent, and what Irish drama did he appear in last year?
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Kin
Hidden Assets
Fair City
Ros na Rún
Irish-American Hollywood star John C. Reilly was honoured with an Oscar Wilde Award in February. What did he say makes Ireland “great”?
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Guinness
Its care to the most vulnerable
The Music
The storytelling
RAY RYAN
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Conan O'Brien
Proven Irish bona fides
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John Ratajkowski
You love quizzing as much as John loves cows
Mark Rode
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Barack Obama Plaza
Ireland's best pitstop
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JD Vance
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