Graham Norton Ponders His Irish Roots | Who Do You Think You Are

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  • Опубликовано: 28 окт 2024

Комментарии • 87

  • @DeidreL9
    @DeidreL9 11 месяцев назад +10

    I love Graham. He’s wonderful, just so wonderful.

  • @splaws-fk8sw
    @splaws-fk8sw 2 года назад +22

    I enjoy this program and admire Graham Norton. When I learned the two came together I had to watch. Well done all around. Graham, I hope you keep interviewing people--hope to keep seeing you on screens in America. xoxo

  • @fromireland8663
    @fromireland8663 2 года назад +22

    His Irish roots! He is Irish.

  • @lukethomas658
    @lukethomas658 3 года назад +27

    The handwriting on the paperwork is of another age, beautiful.

  • @quakekatut8641
    @quakekatut8641 Год назад +6

    When Graham's mum said, "Enough" I laughed ... Sounded just like my gran and mother telling us to stop our silliness.

  • @LpMcQuack
    @LpMcQuack 3 года назад +14

    The mom. "Enough " to her grown-up son..😂 love her..reminds me of my mom..

  • @dalestaley5637
    @dalestaley5637 11 месяцев назад +2

    Ireland's loss is the world's gain. Graham Norton is a delightful human.

  • @hannahmcgahan8920
    @hannahmcgahan8920 4 года назад +11

    This is like my background on my Dad's side my Grandad was from County Cavan (Cootehill) they all came over in the mid 40's - early 50's they were all brought up Catholic but in order to marry my Nan Grandad had to reuonce his Catholic beliefs as Nan and her family were brought up Church of England (Grandad loved the bones of my Nan) I'd love to trace back his grandparents and see how long the McGahan's have been in Ireland x

    • @o-o2399
      @o-o2399 4 года назад +2

      Lol took the soup basically no wonder why he left its a irish surname so its been there since its existed mate.

    • @OscarOSullivan
      @OscarOSullivan Год назад

      Love is love

  • @zellah
    @zellah 3 года назад +33

    Don't feel bad, Graham. My relatives had to leave Ireland 100-130 years ago for being poor Catholics.

  • @reginaromsey
    @reginaromsey 4 года назад +12

    The Logan Dooley thing could have been a short marriage when she was younger, death, and Return to maiden name. I see that occasionally in my own tree climbing efforts,

  • @cityhawk
    @cityhawk Год назад +1

    My mother grew up in the same place his mother lives (Bandon, County Cork). That must mean she lives close to Skibbereen.

  • @windygirl2342
    @windygirl2342 10 месяцев назад +1

    I'm thinking the Catholic animus toward Protestants stemmed from the long-ago loyalty to the crown that his ancestors held. This long ago, they still resent.

  • @mosellethomas40
    @mosellethomas40 3 года назад +6

    Such an interesting show

  • @MALEXI10
    @MALEXI10 Год назад +1

    This just proves that religious bigotry existed in Ireland (modern day Republic) before partition. Many Protestants in the south were treated shockingly by their Catholic neighbours and the emergence of the IRA only heightened that.

  • @rsoubiea
    @rsoubiea 3 месяца назад

    I’m so happy to hear that Reynolds is an Irish name, that’s my mums maiden name. ❤

  • @heatherspence3848
    @heatherspence3848 2 года назад +2

    Best face discovery in an old family photo lolol

  • @mjw12345
    @mjw12345 4 года назад +23

    I wouldn't get too carried away by claims of outsider status. Protestants didn't do so bad in post 1922 Ireland - the highest positions in the Civil Service, Trinity College, the Judiciary. Douglas Hyde, Erskine Childers both protestants, elected presidents of Ireland. The most suffering outsiders were socialists/communists, all the greatest literary persons of 20thC Ireland, LGBT people, unmarried mothers, Travellers...life was horrific.

    • @tarafarrell46
      @tarafarrell46 4 года назад +17

      I don't think Protestants were treated as badly as unmarrried mothers, LGBT people or Travellers but there is no denying we were not treated as being Irish by a lot of people. My father was asked one day by a fella who knew he was Protestant if he'd be supporting the England Football Team for the world cup. My Dad was floored by that. His family have lived in the same part of Ireland for the last 400 years. I was asked much the same when I was in school in the early 2000's.

    • @nellyiii8427
      @nellyiii8427 3 года назад +1

      @@tarafarrell46 wuzzums

    • @mjw12345
      @mjw12345 2 года назад

      @@tarafarrell46 Your father asked if he's supporting English Team - unforgivable, this is the worst. Did he ever recover from the PTSD that surely ensued?

    • @mjw12345
      @mjw12345 2 года назад +2

      @Nicky L Give us a break for heaven's sake - likely no sector of Irish society had it easier than Protestants, think what was done to unmarried pregnant mothers, people with developmental problems, psychiatric problems, nearly ever major writer of 20thC Ireland sanctioned, censored, Dev doing horrible mistreatment of IRA suspects WWII - summary executions, horror shows...'some of that attitude hanging about' - yeah! that's Srebenicha. Poor Prods! Spare a thought for how Catholics in Northern Ireland were treated or the Irish in Britain - the scale of this BS is stratospheric.

    • @mfitzy100
      @mfitzy100 2 года назад +8

      It’s not an either or. Irish Protestants are allowed tell their unique story too

  • @gerardmorvan2232
    @gerardmorvan2232 4 года назад +3

    I would like to know if there are any plans to issue series 12, 14 and 16 on DVD, if only because I would like to complete my collection.

  • @andymarsal
    @andymarsal 3 года назад +4

    OMG Graham's mom sitting on the car - she looks just like Steven Fry :D

  • @itsnotyouitsme_
    @itsnotyouitsme_ 4 года назад +5

    5:02 He almost drove right into the house.. 😅

    • @guitarmatricide4834
      @guitarmatricide4834 4 года назад +1

      Gracie T Oh my Lord! Somehow I missed that the first time I watched it. Then I read your comment and watched it again and my heart almost leapt in my throat!

  • @lindawhitehead8543
    @lindawhitehead8543 Год назад +1

    love you Graham

  • @judithhand4987
    @judithhand4987 4 года назад +17

    Interesting! Neat to see some facts until I'm able to purchase your book(s). I'm so sorry that you had to park in a certain place and that you had to watch how you spoke - what a thing to carry inside! Thanks for sharing this, Graham.

  • @lynnbell8757
    @lynnbell8757 9 месяцев назад

    Love Graham Norton! ❤️

  • @xandragc
    @xandragc 3 года назад +3

    Young Graham looks a bit like Matt Damon, doesn't he.

  • @hablin1
    @hablin1 4 года назад +12

    Really funny my family comes from Ahogahill too they were mostly farmers and like yourself being fromN.Ireland we never knew what to call ourselves like u we felt like second class Irish! In Germany where I live now they never get to grips with the whole British Nornirish thing so to them I’m just Irish ☘️

  • @donnajarvis9542
    @donnajarvis9542 4 года назад +15

    I’ve felt like that, being a Protestant growing up in Derry N.Ireland. I wasn’t really Irish.

    • @johnking5174
      @johnking5174 4 года назад +3

      Hi, I was born in Derry, in a mixed marriage family

    • @j.p.dunleavy1769
      @j.p.dunleavy1769 4 года назад +2

      Well if you are from Derry and you are Protestant you can be British.

    • @johnking5174
      @johnking5174 4 года назад +4

      @@j.p.dunleavy1769 Imagine a mixed marriage JP and the headache that caused my family

    • @JC19676
      @JC19676 3 года назад +5

      You don't call it Londonderry so you are Irish all the way!

    • @Dom-fx4kt
      @Dom-fx4kt 2 года назад +1

      @@j.p.dunleavy1769 You can be both

  • @eg2514
    @eg2514 4 года назад +22

    Graham's right, his mother is hilarious 😅😅

  • @kate392
    @kate392 4 года назад +3

    My family were in Wicklow in 1836 🙂

  • @joandolan589
    @joandolan589 4 года назад +4

    I use my maiden & married names. A lot of women in US put a - hyphen between them. Could be are imitating the Hispanic tradition of keeping maiden name but hyphenated after the married name. When a girl gets married the paternal name is put after the the hyphen and her maternal name is dropped.
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  • @patttyannhudson
    @patttyannhudson Год назад

    The one blood I do know I have is Irish the other I don't positively know but I like Irish

  • @aprilgail5
    @aprilgail5 4 года назад +10

    Omg thank you!!!

  • @mikeshaffer5844
    @mikeshaffer5844 3 года назад

    Graham looks like my Shaffer relatives, who were originally from Bremen, Germany…the original spelling was Shäffer.

  • @yeganeh4818
    @yeganeh4818 2 года назад

    It's great, 👌

  • @jokedejojo
    @jokedejojo 5 месяцев назад

    I thought Irish people didn't say "Southern Ireland?"

  • @kellymichelsen191
    @kellymichelsen191 3 года назад

    Awwww, love you ❤️

  • @TheLloydChannel
    @TheLloydChannel Год назад +1

    Did he say "chicken-sexer"? 👀

  • @MartinaDowney-ql9rz
    @MartinaDowney-ql9rz Месяц назад

    Looks like mick jagger in young yrs

  • @amyclarke41
    @amyclarke41 4 года назад

    yes

  • @prettypurple7175
    @prettypurple7175 6 месяцев назад

    THE SETTLERS////

  • @prettypurple7175
    @prettypurple7175 6 месяцев назад

    ENGLISH PLANNED IN IRELAND/////

  • @SteabhanMacGR2
    @SteabhanMacGR2 2 месяца назад

    The Islamic Republic of Ireland

  • @marymcneill7438
    @marymcneill7438 4 года назад +1

    He didn't go back to see his mother in all those years? Shame on him.

    • @brooksstudiosgarden1615
      @brooksstudiosgarden1615 4 года назад +19

      He lives in Ireland near his mother when his show is on break.

    • @maireos
      @maireos 4 года назад +15

      Not at all, you see him in Cork airport all the time. He's often in Cork.

    • @tvdsje
      @tvdsje 2 года назад +5

      Shame on you for judging without any knowledge -.-

  • @hollyrose2648
    @hollyrose2648 4 года назад +1

    He's a brown helmet species

  • @Frankabagnale33
    @Frankabagnale33 22 дня назад

    Born and raised in Ireland until adulthood. Hardly Irish roots. He’s an Irish man.