List of American actors of Irish descent (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "List of American actors of Irish descent" in English language version.

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  • "AILF Salutes Irish Americans". Archived from the original on June 19, 2006. Retrieved July 5, 2006. Noted as one of "Irish American Political Leaders"; paternal grandparents, John Michael Reagan and Jennie Cusick, were both the children of Irish immigrants

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  • "Archived copy". Archived from the original on November 13, 2006. Retrieved June 23, 2006.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "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."

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  • Patrick (2004). "Robert Kelly Live". CringeHumor.net. Archived from the original on June 18, 2006. Retrieved February 18, 2016. "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."

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  • Staff (August 2, 1999). "Top Catholics of the Century, Number 94: Pat O'Brien". DailyCatholic.org. Retrieved August 21, 2017. "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."

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  • "A Garland for Edinburgh". July 1951. "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)."

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  • Tayor Lange, Ali (July 17, 2012). "Kevin Conroy is Batman". Esquire. Retrieved February 3, 2020. "He was no comic geek, having been raised in a strict, traditional Irish-Catholic family outside New York City, where recreational activities were more likely to include baseball and jigging with his Gaelic-speaking Grandma."

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  • Fischer, Paul (2002). "Owen Wilson Royal Tenenbaums, Behind Enemy Lines". Femail.com.au. Retrieved September 19, 2017. "I would like it to be Dublin, to be Ireland, because that's where my ancestors are from and I think I get along well with Irish people."

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  • "FORWARD : FastForward". Archived from the original on May 18, 2006. Retrieved June 23, 2006. "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."

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  • http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue01/infocus/cagney2.htm "As an Irish-American and a primarily New York City star, Cagney was an icon for immigrants ..." [15] "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." [16] "Hollywood columnist Sidney Skolsky dubbed them the "Irish Mafia", but they preferred to call their group the "Boy's Club". The original members of the club were Frank McHugh, James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, and Spencer Tracy, all of whom were Irish-Americans hence the name Irish Mafia."

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  • O'Sullivan, Charlotte (September 13, 2002). "Julia Stiles: 'That'll sound slutty'". The Independent. Archived from the original on January 22, 2009. Retrieved December 19, 2017. Her mother (half English, half Italian) makes ceramic pots, her dad (Irish) sells them – and Stiles admits that the basic ethos is, 'it's bad to be lazy! If I decided not to go to college [my parents] would not be that happy.'

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  • http://www.irishrepub.org/ [11] Archived April 27, 2006, at the Wayback Machine (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

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  • "JACK LORD Talks About His Mother & Father!". Archived from the original on February 8, 2008. Retrieved July 26, 2007. "He looked like that marvelous painting of John Brown with his hair flying...big and tough and Irish. And that's just how he was. William Lawrence Ryan... My mother – Josephine O'Brien she'd been before she married – was an Irish matriarch, just as strong as he was."

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  • Tugend, Tom (December 30, 2005). "In search of Nathan Lane's 'Jewish' roots". Jewish News. Retrieved May 5, 2017. "Even though you were born into an Irish Catholic blue-collar family, just about everyone assumes that you're Jewish and that you changed your name from Rabinowitz."

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  • The Times [5] "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." [6] "I'm a hundred per cent Irish. I'm an American – but the blood is green."

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  • "Archived copy". Archived from the original on July 20, 2006. Retrieved June 23, 2006.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "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."

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  • "Michael O'Keefe - Yahoo! Movies". Archived from the original on August 3, 2011. Retrieved January 14, 2017. "One of seven children born into a wealthy Irish-American family..." [7] "The O'Keefe name forever associates him with the Emerald Isle and the third generation Irishman has relatives living in Wicklow, Limerick and Cork..."

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  • http://www.irishrepub.org/ [11] Archived April 27, 2006, at the Wayback Machine (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

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  • http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue01/infocus/cagney2.htm "As an Irish-American and a primarily New York City star, Cagney was an icon for immigrants ..." [15] "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." [16] "Hollywood columnist Sidney Skolsky dubbed them the "Irish Mafia", but they preferred to call their group the "Boy's Club". The original members of the club were Frank McHugh, James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, and Spencer Tracy, all of whom were Irish-Americans hence the name Irish Mafia."

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  • "Michael O'Keefe - Yahoo! Movies". Archived from the original on August 3, 2011. Retrieved January 14, 2017. "One of seven children born into a wealthy Irish-American family..." [7] "The O'Keefe name forever associates him with the Emerald Isle and the third generation Irishman has relatives living in Wicklow, Limerick and Cork..."

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  • 19 mei 2009. "The JONAS Brothers talk purity rings & their Irish roots". YouTube. Retrieved February 24, 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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  • Hall said he was "Irish and Italian" on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, can be seen at [1]