Tristan is full of rage at the Irish for taking his family.

I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.

I've always liked it here. Part of me is Irish. . . . My family comes from the west coast, so whenever I come to Ireland I get a wee tingling in my heart that I'm where I belong.

Midlife Irish: Discovering My Family and Myself.

I'm from an Irish Catholic family.

Though I soon became typecast in Hollywood as a gangster and hoodlum, I was originally a dancer, an Irish hoofer, trained in vaudeville tap dance. I always leapt at the opportunity to dance in films later on.