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And all the way now
from Navan

and the banks of the Boyne,
Dr. Pierce Brendan Brosman.

Of course I wear suede
on a bloody hot day

and the sun's coming down.

Say, tuck your shirt,
good Lord.

Lick your lips,
sit up straight.

It was a great
introduction for Bond.

When I was on the tour
with the Bond movie,

every time
I had introduced the film,

I would go to the back
of the theater just to watch.

Wayne Michaels
was the stuntman.

Wayne Michaels
jumped off that dam,

spent two weeks there
going up on the dam every day,

and the conditions were
not right.

The conditions
were not right.

Then one day he stood up
on the dam

and the conditions were right

and he just stood there.

Took the swallow dive pose,
looked up,

and just as
he was about to dive off,

the Italian crane driver
who was hoisting him

back up on the bungee
just went...

You have to keep that dive.

You have to keep
the horizon line all the way.

As soon as your head turns,
you're inverted.

That's it. Snap.

So he did it twice.

Did it twice.
Quite extraordinary.

It was a great opening
for the movie.

It was a great opening
for my career as James Bond.

I think "GoldenEye"
is one of the best.

You know what I mean?
It's iconic.

Of course,
the irony of an Irishman

playing James Bond

didn't escape
the funny bone of my life.

I just accepted it and
I think people accepted it.

I don't think there was
any heavy-handed

criticism or anything like
that to my playing James Bond...

as an Irishman.

Hmm.

Quite extraordinary time
in life.

Quite extraordinary.
Powerful.

The feeling coming at you
like a tsunami was just...

I remember saying to Keely,
the day I got the job.

The phone rang and it was
Fred Specktor, my agent,

and Kevin Huvane,
and they said, "It's yours.

It's all yours."

I remember putting the phone
down and saying to Keeley,

"Hold on to your hat.
This is going to be...

It's going to be
one wild ride."

Ten years later, it was.

My name is Pierce Brosnan,
and we're at The Surfrider

here in Malibu.

Malibu's been home forever.

I dropped in here in '82
and I came to the seaside.

I was in the Hollywood Hills
to start with, and

that kind of felt like a home,

but it was
a little distant and...

The ocean dragged me
to it, and so,

I've been here ever since,

and it's a good part of
the world.

I love LA, I hate LA.

I love LA and drives me nuts.

I fly in over it and think,
"Why do I live here?"

But I live out there
at the beach.

It's gorgeous.
It's been good to me.

Yes, I'm from Navan,
County Meath.

I grew up on
the banks of the river Boyne.

My father, God bless him,
Tom Brosnan, he--he...

went off into the hills
and never to return.

So my mother
was a young mother,

and being
a single mother in the '50s,

in a very...

closed environment

and Catholicism really did

kind of...

mangle somewhat the lives
of many people,

even though there was

the prayer to God
and Jesus and happiness.

But, uh...

the marriage didn't work out,

and being a single mother
in those years,

they made you feel it.

A cloistered town, like Navan,

there was no escaping.

My mother left
when I was a young lad

to be a nurse in England.

That was
her courage and her glory,

and thank God she did,

and she went off
to make a life.

So I lived with
my grandparents,

then an aunt and an uncle.

One way or the other, Navan is

very much part of my life.

And you acknowledge that.
It's your roots.

It's who you come from.

It's the seed and the bone
and the flesh

of your soul somewhat.

And then when I was eleven
years of age,

my mother finally
found her footing in England

and got her nursing degrees
and sent for me,

and we were reunited.

So those first eleven
years of my life

were very, somewhat solitary.

But I think it's what gave me
the interior life of an actor

and of an artist,
and made me the man I am today.

So I landed in London and
was reunited with my mother

on the same day
that Ian Fleming passed away.

I didn't realize that for many,
many years.

The sun was shining.

I was looking...

for the cars
with the big wings.

I thought they were there,
but they weren't.

They were just little cars
like in Ireland.

And we lived in Putney.

Number 72
Chelverton Road, Putney.

My mother and stepfather
took me to the pictures,

Putney High Street.

First film I saw,
"Goldfinger."

I'd never seen the likes of it.

I was just bedazzled.

I was good at art and I was
good at English,

and my essays were strong.
The art wasn't bad.

I left school at 16
with nothing

but a cardboard folder
of drawings,

paintings of flowers,
plants, people.

And I got a job,

again in Putney,
drawing straight lines,

Watering the spider plants

and making cups of tea
for the three other guys.

And that was it.
I was an artist.

I almost went into the army,
almost became a cop.

I would have been a good
soldier, I think.

Would have been
a good cop.

Acting, really...

acting kind of
came out of the blue.

One day I was hanging
my coat up in the studio,

talking to a colleague from
the photographic department,

talking about movies.

And he said,
"You should come along

to the Oval House Theater."

I said, "What is it?"
And he said, "It's an arts lab.

They do workshops."

I went along and that was it.

This other world
revealed itself to me,

and also my inner self too.

And workshops, which were

the beginning of
my own analysis...

as an artist.

I got cast in
an American production,

"The Manions of America,"

six-part mini series
on the Irish potato famine.

So Ireland came back into me,

came back into my life.

I was unknown.
My late wife Cassie said,

"You know,
we should go to America."

I said, "How the hell
are we going to go to America?

We just bought
this house in Wimbledon."

She'd just done a James Bond
movie, "For Your Eyes Only."

I've done
the six-hour miniseries.

I said, "This is
too stressful, no, no.

I want to do a play
at the royal court."

And she said "No,
we should go to America."

I said, "But
we don't have the money."

And she said, "I'll find a way."
And she did.

She took out a second mortgage
on the central heating.

Sent me down to the bank
manager in Raynes Park

to get an overdraft
for £2,000.

Said I had a job.
Big lie. Little lie.

She was right, you know.
She was absolutely

on-the-nose,
pitch perfect right.

Got the overdraft.
Freddie Laker used to do

cheap flights to LA.

100 quid.
Bring your own sandwiches.

Friend of mine said,
"You can stay at our place."

It was right there
on the strip.

Had a room in the back,
a waterbed.

Rented a car
from Rent-A-Wreck.

Got to Hollywood.
Got an agent.

Very first interview.
Across Laurel Canyon.

My God, here I am.
I'm in Hollywood.

I'm going for a job.

I'm in this beat-up
old piece of crap car.

I'm going for a job.

It blew up and
I had to walk down, CBS.

They were looking
for Remington Steele.

I said, "I'll do it."

I screen tested.
I got the job.

I worked my tail off.
It was so stressful.

10, 12 pages a day,
dialogue,

but I was good on dialogue.
I was fast.

I played with a lot
of alacrity.

Back then I did, anyway,
coming out of the theatre,

coming out of
English speaking theatre.

Tongue.

Precision.
Precision.

So I would rattle through the
dialogue and they'd write more.

You know, at this,
I could make a career.

How much pride
did you have then

when Remington Steele
shot an episode in Ireland

at a time when there was
no real film or tv industry?

Uh...

Well, I was very proud.

I think that's...

probably an understatement.

Here I am with an American
TV series, "Remington Steele."

I played Remington.

It's 1984, the Olympic Games
are coming to Los Angeles

and we decide
to take the show abroad.

And I said, well,

"Remington is an enigma.
We don't know who he is.

Why doesn't he go
look for his father?"

Remington looks for his father,
Pierce looks for his father.

It all dovetailed rather well.

But I loved the movies.

I wanted to be up there

in some wild dream,
some notion.

But, you know,

that's just a notion.
That's just a dream.

The actual practical doing of
day-to-day living

is get a job, go to work.

Get a job, do it well,

come home,
do it again,

as an actor.

So Keely and I are still
trucking down the road here,

30 years,

sorting the world out.

And the boys are grown

and we want to go back
to Ireland to make movies.

We have a couple of ideas,

so we know enough people
over there now

to raise a bit of money
and

make a "fill-im."

Welcome to the
20th IFTA Awards ceremony

taking place here tonight

at the
Dublin Royal Convention Centre.

I think what's quintessentially
Irish

is that whatever is
happening at the time,

we'll claim it.

We're "glic out." We're clever,

We claimed Obama.
We claim whoever we want.

I left when I was a young boy.

I left when I was six.

There's something
about people here,

they're so kind.

In the darkest of times,
there's a great sense of humor.

My dad's homemade brown bread.

That's what's
quintessentially Irish to me.

Are we good at trying
to hide things from people,

cover, you know...
not being totally open?

Sometimes, like,
bare-faced honesty,

and it's quite shocking.

Brendan Gleeson,

red hair, charming,

gift of the gab.

They're all Irish traits,
I think.

So it sounds like I'm
in the tourist board now,

but an openness,

and maybe
it's because of age

and the difference between
when I was young

and what
happened to the country.

Suddenly there was this huge
curiosity of the world.

My missus is French, so
I spent a lot of time in France.

And their idea of
who the Irish are

is a great rootedness,

a great openness,

a great joie de vivre.

We're a mysterious and
complex people

with lots of
traumatic legacy behind us.

A quintessential Irish
characteristic

has to be
the Irish welcome.

And it was something
that I noticed living in London

five years,
took me a while.

And I went back home and
everywhere I looked,

somebody was warm to me.

Someone helped me,
someone held a door for me.

Someone said, "Oh, that's
my favorite chocolate bar, too."

That's the Irish welcome.

It expects nothing back
in return except to

give you a little bit
of kindness in your day.

And that, for me,
defines Ireland.

You say you're
from Ireland and people

immediately are warm to you.

Other people get jealous, like,

why does everyone
like the Irish so much?

You may find Irish people
are socially

or politically judgmental,

but they're personally
very tolerant.

Are there quintessentially
Irish characteristics

or traits that you find?

Of course there are.

I wouldn't be here
if there weren't.

I'm married to an Irish girl
and she's my savior.

I'm Anglo-Saxon,

with all the sort of
heavy German boringness

that that brings.

And she is a Celt,
a will-of-the-wisp,

a difficult, edgy thoroughbred,

and comes from a family
of storytelling

and comes from a country
which has survived on that.

There's something deeply...

mystical and powerful
about the Irish.

What it is,

it's very hard to define,

but we certainly bring it out
in song, in our writing,

the way we spiritually
kind of connect to the world.

The idea of Irish has come

from the thoughts of
Irish people,

from the poets, to the history,
to the language.

But what is largely forgotten

is the natural aspect
of Irish,

the plants. It's the nature,
it's the landscape.

We have certain natural
characteristics as a nation

to do with connectivity,
to do with humor,

and to do with,
dare I say it, crack.

-And what is crack?

Well, let's just say
it's not a legal substance.

It is a spontaneous fun
that the Irish have,

the ability
to laugh at ourselves,

the ability to create a party
for any occasion,

and having good crack.

I think compassion.

I think we must have
the courage

to stand by our compassion.

No matter
what the adversity is,

it's that incredible spirit
of never giving up.

I'm here.
Yes, I have my hopes

and aspirations
and great dreams,

but I fear nothing
and so I'm free.

That is what makes Ireland
such a great country now.

My wife, Greta, who's
from Perth in Western Australia,

her first day in Ireland,

I tried and failed
to find a pub

that had traditional music,
having promised her

she would have this great treat
of traditional music.

So I went into this pub
and I was getting desperate,

so I asked the lady behind
the counter,

"Do you know any place
in Kenmare

where there might be
Irish music?"

She said,
"Sure, I'll play for you."

And she pulled down
a fiddle and started playing.

She would play,
she would finish,

pull a few pints
and start playing again.

And for me,
that was the essence of Ireland.

That was Ireland at its best.

And I can always say

I played with
the Irish Youth Orchestra.

Can I say that?
Can I say that?

"Going to the pictures,"
that's a great phrase,

"Are you going
to the pictures?"

Michael D. Higgins
is a great character,

full of bonhomie and
mischief.

This passion for the arts and

the creativity of souls
and the harmony of people.

Huge fan of Michael D.
I think he's a great president.

He's done a huge amount
for the country.

The present strength of
a multi-skilled

creative film community

on the island of Ireland

is the result of committed,

loyal supporters of film

and decades of work.

I think it was very important
that when I became

the first Minister for Arts,
Culture and the Gaeltacht,

that I had experience
with the community

involved in filmmaking.

So therefore
it was never for me

going to be
simply a commodity.

The late Prime Minister
Albert Reynolds,

he met me and he said,
"Michael,

what do you need
to get it all going?"

I said, "I can get all of this
running quickly

for 15 million."

Everything I did
was against the tide.

I was accused regularly

that I was building
an empire. I was.

We immediately,

immediately
had five major projects.

I knew that difficulties
had arisen

in relation to the making
of "Braveheart" in Scotland.

And Mel Gibson himself came

and there was
a four-hour meeting.

We said, "We can help, yeah."

At that meeting,
Chris O'Grady negotiated

30 first assistant posts
at every level,

including an assistant
to Mel Gibson himself.

And that became
the model of our scheme.

You could make
any film in Ireland now

and you wouldn't have
a skill shortage.

"Braveheart" came to Dunsany.

The church scene, in which
the French princess marries,

was filmed right over there.

I was ten years old,
hiding in bushes,

and there was this
homeless-looking man.

It was Mel Gibson,
dressed in costume.

Big biceps, not very tall.

And I thought to myself,

"There's the 'Lethal Weapon'
guy."

And I thought,
"Isn't this fantastic?"

And I followed him around

from behind, peering,

watching him direct,

and I knew
I wanted to do the same,

and if I could have the biceps,

that would also be good, too.

We have been
very lucky in Ireland

to have such outstanding
acting talents,

production talents.

It tells us that you have,
in fact,

put a structure in place

to make everything possible.

Whatever small contribution
my policies made,

that was just
a contribution to a structure

that makes
other things possible.

It had been my dream.

Ross White,
accompanied by Oscar.

- Pleasure to meet you.
- I saw your [indistinct].

It isn't just the director
and the script writer.

It's all those
who make it possible,

and those, in fact, actually

who provide the hot meals
at the breaks.

The Republic of Ireland
today

is a country with a past
that tugs at your heart

and a future that's shaping
the world.

And it's a global force
in culture and the arts

and evidenced by
the 14 Oscar nominations

went to
Irish artists this year,

The pride, the bród,

that we all felt like,
seeing

the Irish takeover
at the Oscars.

Best director, Best Actor,
Best Supporting Actor,

Best Supporting Actress,

Best International Film
for "An Calín Ciúin."

It's extraordinary.

I love that film.

It just broke my heart

because of my own aloneness
as a child

of being wanted or not wanted.

You hear things, you see things.

"Calín Ciúin."
Stunning piece of work

by this man and wife team.

It's lovely to see
Irish films be celebrated.

Colm Bairéad.

We're the first Irish
language feature film

to be nominated for the Oscars

and the first time
an Irish film

has been nominated in
this particular category,

which is the international
film category.

And of course,
an Irish person is famously

associated with
the Oscars themselves.

The golden statuette
is designed by Cedric Gibbons.

There's an Irish wave
certainly coming to Hollywood.

Hopefully the luck of
the Irish will follow us, too.

I was so moved by
the warmth conveyed

in the award-winning
live action short film

"An Irish Goodbye."

"An Calín Ciúin,"
which made history.

The journey has been absolutely
extraordinary for us.

It's been a complete whirlwind.

We've been at the BAFTAs
and the Oscars.

- Now it's the IFTAs.
- Yeah, I mean,

I guess it worked out
pretty well, right?

Winning an Oscar
is fantastic.

And it's
so special to be here tonight

at the IFTAs, you know,
the final stop on the journey.

To sort of finish at home

makes it extra special
for us all.

Quintessentially Irish.

I mean, we're great at
congratulating ourselves.

And here we are at
the IFTAs.

Next presenter,

the greatest man
that ever lived,

Mr. John C. Reilly.

I know what you're thinking,

What the hell is he
doing here?

Well, I couldn't
get a seat at the Oscars

because there are so many
Irish people there this year,

but I thought I'd try
my luck here.

The culture
and traditional writing

in this country
is so profoundly rich,

and there has been
a real gear shift

in terms of
the way that Ireland

is presented on screen.

There's less of
the old Irish tourist board

presentation of this country.

We've got great dramas
and here we have a drama

that's full of Irish women
who look gorgeous.

Nobody's peeling at
any point in the kitchen.

You know?
It's just fantastic.

And the winner is

"The Banshees of Inisherin."

Is part of
the huge success of "Banshees"

the fact that it's
quintessentially Irish?

No, I think it's a story told
in a particular idiom.

The fact
that you can tell a story

in the Irish idiom,
in the Irish landscape,

give it an epic quality,

maintain a very ordinary sense
of humanity within it

and do extraordinary
things with it.

So that's where
I think the success is.

It's not that it's Irish,
it's that it's good.

What is so wonderfully,
quintessentially Irish

- about Sinead O'Connor?
- Ooh!

Goodness. Oof.

I think her ability to
tell very authentic stories.

Her voice is
quintessentially Irish.

I think she sounds
like a keening

from the depths of
ancient Ireland,

the most fabulous icon

we could be
lucky enough to have.

So, yeah, that's
what I think about Sinead.

So I was in
a tiny little village

in the south of France
last week,

and I went to
the local village hall

where there
was a production

of "Da" by Hugh Leonard.

And I don't
understand French,

but opposite me
were an Irish family

who didn't understand French.

And the rest
of the hall was filled with

French people who thought
it was hilarious and very Irish.

And there's
this sense of the absurd,

which the Irish absolutely,
inherently,

seemed to understand.

Perhaps it's to do
with the nature

of the people
in the country itself.

Add to that the diaspora

and the people who profoundly
associate themselves,

often mistakenly,
with this country.

Then you've got
a lot of influence.

We like society.

We're not solitary people.

That's why when
we go abroad, we engage

and we connect very well.

I've been in many countries

where I've
seen Irish communities.

They make an impact

above and beyond what
the numbers might suggest.

As an island community,

we're surrounded
by the Atlantic Ocean,

north, south, east and west.

And we go beyond
the Aran islands,

then the next step after that

is the east coast
of America.

We do travel.

As a people,
we have travelled far.

Every corner of the world
has an Irish man,

a woman there somewhere

left to seek fame and fortune.

The prime minister of
New Zealand was called Muldoon.

The prime minister of
Australia was called Keating.

The prime Minister of
Great Britain

was called Callahan.

The prime minister
of Canada was called Mulroney.

The president
of the United States was Reagan,

and--wait for it--
the president of France,

de Gaulle,
traced his origins back

to the McCartans
in County Down.

It is kind of like
an extraordinary empire

which wasn't built by military
might or force of arms,

but just by the fact
that so many people

left this island.

And the bad news is that, like,

10 million people in history
have left Ireland.

But the good news is
that 10 million people

in history have left Ireland

because what we now have
is a phenomenal global tribe.

We've no plans
to invade anybody soon.

I think the last time
we had a home win was

1014 against the Danes.

We haven't had
great success since then.

You see manifestations of
this Irish diaspora

in all sorts of places,
like James Hoban,

who built the White House.

And in these rooms,
we see the dreams

of one Irish builder made real.

When George Washington

chose James Hoban
to design the White House,

the young architect had
his credentials

from the Dublin Society.

The Irish played a huge part
in building America.

A million people left Ireland

mostly for
the United States

between 1815 and 1845.

And they're established when
the great famine wave comes,

when 2 million people go.

The Irish between
1815-1845

are described as
Protestant and prudent.

They are now property owners
in Boston and so forth.

They're not necessarily
welcoming 2 million people

coming in on top of them.

So you begin to get
the scatter of the Irish

throughout the United States.

Most of them are descended
from post-famine emigrants.

And those people left Ireland
with a sense of grievance

about the circumstances
that had led to their departure.

When they arrived in America,

they were not warmly
received by Americans.

There was a party
in the 1840s and '50s

that wanted to send
the Irish home,

and therefore
they banded together.

The Irish proved themselves
to be assets to America,

and that transformed
the image of Ireland

in the United States
to the benefit

of our country
going forward from there.

And one of the key moments
was the Civil War,

where Irish people
joined the Union forces.

Those who came into New York
very often were recruited

within weeks and were off
fighting in the Civil War

under the leadership
of Thomas Francis Meagher,

a good Waterford man
like myself.

Irish America is
a remarkable phenomenon.

Many Irish Americans are 4th,
5th, 6th generation,

and yet a surprising
number of them

have an affinity with Ireland,

an affiliation with Ireland,

an affection for Ireland
that is hugely beneficial

from an Irish point of view.

There's a difference between
Irish-born people

who live in the United States,
for example,

and Irish Americans.

They are not the same people.
They are different tribes.

And very often people who may
have a series

of other ethnic definitions
in their background

don't choose them,
but they choose the Irish one.

The Americans
want to love the Irish.

They want to be more Irish
than the Irish are themselves.

I don't believe
that Ireland would have

become independent in
the way it did in the early '20s

had it not been for
the influence of Irish America.

And likewise, I'm not sure
that the Good Friday Agreement

would have emerged in
in the way it did,

but for the influence of
Irish Americans,

persuading
the Clinton administration

to take
an active interest in Ireland.

I remember
being in Belfast during

those months leading up
to the final agreement in 1998.

The word would go round--
the White House is on the line!

Which meant
that President Clinton,

the busiest man in the world,

was picking up the phone
to ring politicians

in Northern Ireland
to urge them

to make those final moves,

to make a compromise
and a settlement possible.

You have all
heard the expression,

every St. Patrick's Day,

every Irishman goes out

to find another Irishman
to make a speech to.

Well, that's why I'm here.

The St. Patrick's Day
festivities in Washington, D. C.

would not happen because
Ireland's a jolly good country.

No, it happens
because Irish Americans

are a jolly good community.

You visited the White House.

How proud were you
to be at that reception?

It was a proud morning.

It was a chilly morning,
but the food was good,

the hospitality was great.

President Joe Biden,
he was very gracious to me.

We had a good chat
about Ireland and fishing.

The taoiseach of Ireland.

I don't know how many countries
there are

that have an annual date
in the calendar

for a meeting
with the US president,

the sheer extraordinary
pleasure

of an occasion like that.

Some of my European
colleagues in Washington

were tearing their hair out
at how

we could pull off this one

and have a full day
in Washington devoted

to Ireland's prime minister.

And I know people at home
in Ireland

can be cynical
about these things.

"Oh, it's all
a bit of blarney."

No, it's not.

You get a chance to sit down

with the most powerful person
in the world for an hour.

And then you meet that person
over lunch for an hour,

and then you spend an hour
with them

in the evening at
a reception at the White House.

So this is an extraordinary
blessing and boost for Ireland.

Niall Horan.

Happy Paddy's day, everyone.

And for the Americans,

that's not with two Ts,
that's two Ds.

When I was sat down
to write my first album,

the first thing
that came to my mind

was my hometown of Mullingar.

And... emotional.
Um...

It's a song called "This Town,"

and it's about, effectively,

an immigration song
about traveling the world and

knowing that I'll always
have Mullingar to go back to.

And the chorus basically says,

if the whole world
was watching,

I'd still dance with you.

And it's effectively
about my hometown.

If you know the words,
you can sing along.

If you don't, good.
That's fine, too.

Where have you been hiding?

It's a wonderful day
to be Irish in London.

We'll paint Trafalgar
Square Green until Friday,

and then we'll paint
the England rugby team Green

- on Saturday.

Take it easy.

We want to
celebrate our Irishness,

our language, personality,

our love of
music and literature,

all aspects of life.

We celebrate St. Patrick's Day,

and he might be Welsh
or wherever he's from, but sure,

all we want
to do is party anyway.

St. Patrick, who is known
often as our patron saint,

is ironic because
he's not traditionally Irish,

because he was
a foreigner.

Not Irish.
That's very surprising to me.

Was St. Patrick Irish?

Of cour--no.
No, he's actually English,

and then he got
taken into Ireland.

I know the story.

No, I don't believe he was.

Is that meant to be
a trick question?

No, he wasn't, actually.
But that's okay.

He's a great brand ambassador.
Do you know what I mean?

It's great to have him.
Don't like snakes, so.

My only issue with
St. Patrick's Day

is why did we have to
pick a festival

in the middle of March,
which is usually

the coldest month of the year,

with an easterly breeze
that cuts through everything.

And as a child and as
a grown adult,

standing by,
reporting on things,

I've stood around in the cold
too often on St Patrick's Day.

I wish we had it in June.

He is buried in County Down,

our neighboring county,

and he was a shepherd
on Slemish Mountain.

We usually have
a little get-together

with friends and family.

We have to keep
that tradition alive.

The palace is turned green.

The Niagara Falls
has been turned green.

What I call
the greening tower of Pisa.

And now in the White House.
An amazing feat

that our country
has that ability

to appeal to people
around the world,

even those that have no...

ancestral connection
with Ireland.

Thank you very much,
those with links to Ireland.

Those of us without links
but pretend

to have links with Ireland.

We're really grateful
for the massive contribution

the Irish have made to
our city

in culture,
in music and in the arts.

Previous generations,
the people that I met,

the older people
who were still there in Britain

after maybe 50 years
living in the country,

they had built Britain,
in many cases, with their hands.

The Irish that came in
the period

leading up to my arrival
in London,

were designing Britain.

They were actually operating
at a very different level.

The Irish have given some
service to Britain

over the years
and we kind of run the place,

really, if truth be known,
you know.

I mean, I don't think
anyone would dispute that.

All of you seem to
have English accents.

Do you consider yourself Irish?

- Of course, yeah.
- Of course. Of course.

We just interviewed
three of your friends.

- Yeah.
- Are they Irish?

No, they're plastic paddies!
I'm the only true Irish!

I feel sorry
for plastic paddies.

These are the people
who truly want to be Irish,

but don't know what Irish is.

But a plastic paddy is
a person who

never grew up in Ireland,

never grew up with
any of the Irish traditions,

doesn't know
anything about Ireland,

but would like to be Irish.

Was that a bit cruel?

There's quite a few of them.

I know some people say,

"Oh, we should definitely
cast those people aside."

No, they're our people.

Irishness comes in
different shapes and forms.

Plastic paddies,
a really shameful description,

because I think it's
impossible actually to

define Ireland without
reference to its diaspora.

First of all,
they bailed us out,

literally
from the famine and beyond.

And then the children
of these Irish immigrants

really valued
their Irish heritage

when they went to school
and so on.

They not only saw themselves
as American or British,

but they also were very proud
of their Irish heritage

and really put that
on the table.

And as a result of that,

they faced
a lot of discrimination.

Then when
they returned to Ireland,

they weren't accepted
as Irish either.

So they really were isolated,
shot by both sides.

To throw an accusation
that they aren't proper Irish

is hugely insulting
because they are,

and because the current
Ireland wouldn't be where it is.

It wouldn't have
the global networks

that have enabled
multinationals to locate here.

You wouldn't have
the social networks

where people in Ireland
can show up anywhere

and there's a warm,
welcoming hand.

I don't think people
on the island of Ireland

are appreciative enough of

what the international
diaspora have done for us.

My grandfather
had a small 15 acres

of very poor land
in West Claire

and got up every morning
and milked four cows

at 4:00 in the morning.

And my father
didn't want to inherit that.

My father met my mother
and they immigrated to New York.

And my father got involved
in the travel business

with Thomas Cook,

with Aer Lingus
at Kennedy Airport,

and then set up
his own business

and then did the typical paddy:
came home to buy a pub.

I think my family's story
is just a mirror image

of thousands more.

When I'm doing an All-Ireland
Hurling Final on the radio,

I like to reach out
not only to the Irish,

but the descendants
of the Irish.

You are part of us.

You might be 3,000 miles away,

but no matter where you are,
you are family.

In times gone by,
we had JFK coming to Wexford.

We had Ronald Reagan.
We had Joe Biden recently,

who had clearly strong roots
with Louth and Mayo.

As the great-great-grandson
of the Blewitts

of County Mayo and
several are here today...

President Biden
traces his Irish ancestry

to County Mayo, as do you.

What is it about the west?

I don't know.

There must be something
in the air or the water.

Don't get me wrong, I love
the other parts of Ireland too,

but it's true that the west
has a special atmosphere.

It's not an easy climate.
It can be very wet and windy.

That usually creates
good character

and toughness to face life.

Every American president
is a little bit Irish

- on St. Patrick's Day.

But some
are more Irish than others.

And, um...

I think it's fair to say
that today

we're celebrating
our national day

with a president who is

unmistakably
a son of Ireland.

Is Joe Biden Irish?

I guess he thinks he's Irish
and I guess that's what matters.

If he wants to be Irish,
let him be Irish.

President Biden
is considered so Irish

that his Secret Service
code name is "Celtic."

AÁINE LAWLOR: The man
is proud in his heart

and his soul to be Irish,

and we saw that on his visit
here to Ireland.

You know, that wasn't
any political theatrics.

As the Irish saying goes,
"Your feet will bring you

where your heart is."

That was a real connection
he'd made, all the way through.

So you're not
cynical about it at all?

You know, politicians
have hearts, too.

Sometimes.

Sentiment is a very powerful
force in human affairs.

The fact that Joe Biden
is sentimentally Irish

is, I think,
a huge bonus for Ireland.

Thank you. Thank you.
Wonderful to be back.

Mr. President,
what are your

quintessentially Irish
characteristics?

I'm not going to presume.

I'll let others
make that judgment.

He's not just saying he's
Irish for the crack

or like, saying it
to make people happy.

He's obviously saying it
to try and draw in

other people who are
loving their Irish roots.

They're going to cash in
on anything they can,

but it made
for an interesting view.

Put it like that.

President Joe Biden is
a proud, patriotic American,

but he's also someone
who prides himself

on his Irish heritage.

And he is, by the way,

the most Irish president
since John F. Kennedy.

And indeed, he's always
wore his Irish identity

on his sleeve,
on his heart.

Whereas in the case of Kennedy,

Kennedy was a little
more circumspect about it,

because at that time,
back in the '60s,

being an Irish-American

wasn't necessarily
the advantage it carries

in the years since that time.

Presidents
Joe Biden and Barack Obama

have more in common than just
being Irish-Americans.

Both Biden and Obama
are descended

from Irish shoemakers
who emigrated to the States

in the 19th century.

You know,
I know it sounds silly,

but there's so many
Irish-Americans,

like my relatives who got here,

got to America
in 1844, '45 and '46

who've never been back here,

and they talk about it.

Mr. President,
why do Irish shoemakers

make great presidents?

Isn't that amazing?

Isn't that amazing?

My great-great-grandfather

left from the same port

five weeks later after Barack's
great-great-grandfather,

and the idea
that they both would

seek a new life

and think that
their great-great-grandsons

would end up being
president of the United States.

That's remarkable.

That's the Irish of it.

President Barack Obama,

he spoke eloquently
about his Irish connections.

The great landscape of
history of Ireland and America,

the men and women
who created this country

came out of desperate times,
dark times, the famine.

I love when Obama came
to Dublin,

his very funny speech about
being Barack O'Bama

from Moneygall, but somehow

the apostrophe
was dropped along the way.

Mr. President,
thank you for spending

so much of your precious time
on our beautiful island.

Thank you for coming home to us.

My name is Ricky Simms.
I'm a sports agent.

I'm from Milford in County
Donegal. I live in Monaco.

Growing up in Milford,

which is a small village
outside Letterkenny,

it's a farming community.

I was a sports-mad kid.

I played all kinds of sports.

My opportunity
was with a club called

Finn Valley Athletic Club,

which was one of the biggest

athletics clubs in Ireland.

I always say I was good in
Donegal,

but I never made it
to the Olympic Games

or the world championships.
I was never really good enough.

When I started working with
the Kenyan athletes,

I realized it was time for me
to stop running,

because they were way,
way faster than I could ever be

if I ate, slept and trained
for the rest of my life.

But I had a talent
for organizing

and managing and coaching,

and coming from Donegal

doesn't mean you have
to stay at home on a farm.

You can go and try and
do things around the world,

and that's where
I got really connected

to international athletics.

I met Sonia O'Sullivan,

who was
a big hero in Ireland,

and her coach and agent

was Kim McDonald,
who ran one of

the biggest athletics agencies
in the world at the time.

Traveling to world championships
and seeing how it all worked

gave me the appetite to have
a career in that area.

Mo started with us in 2000.

Usain started 2003.

In 2012, Usain
was the face of the games.

Mo was maybe the second
most famous athlete there.

One of the iconic photographs
from 2012

was of Usain
doing Mo's celebration,

then Mo doing Usain's
celebration.

That was a good picture.

Who took that picture?

So it was my idea
to get a picture.

Exactly, yeah, yeah, yeah.

- I said, "Okay, let's get it."
- Get a picture, yeah, yeah.

There was probably
100 photographers, like,

swarmed round
and got the photo.

If I'd got it myself,
I probably could have sold it.

We've been together so long,

I have a lot of stories,
so he's nervous.

Yeah, we do.

Ricky has meant
a lot to my career.

To find somebody
that believes in you

and believes in your career

helps to propel you to be
the best person you can be.

It doesn't happen every day.

When I started,
I struggled a lot

with injuries,
ups and downs.

It wasn't smooth sailing,

but Ricky always treated
me the same,

and for me, that meant a lot.

So when I actually made it,

it was my way of showing,
like, you know what?

You were loyal to me,
so I'm gonna be loyal to you.

We have
developed this big family

that is just a wonderful thing.

One thing I would say
about him

throughout the championship,

he's not--he's not
as cool as he looks.

You know what I mean?
He worries.

You know what I mean?
No matter how well

I'll be doing
through the season,

he's the worrier in the group.

He worries,
you know what I mean?

- Thanks for adding that.
- No, I'm just saying.

- You gotta have a Plan B.
That's him.

You need a Plan C
and a Plan D.

That's the only thing
I would add,

that he's the worrier
in the group.

This is why I enjoy being
around him, man.

I'm always laughing.
He just lighten the mood

so it's always a fun time.

Unless he's worrying
about me.

So I'm funnier than I look?

I wouldn't go that far.
But--but--

You're--you're decent.

The Irish and the Jamaicans
are very, very similar.

We don't take ourselves
too seriously.

We like to have a bit of fun.

They love Guinness in Jamaica.

Actually,
the most popular drinks

are Guinness and Hennessy.

Ireland's a cold
Jamaica,

and Jamaica
is a hot Ireland.

So for me, our cultures
mash together,

and I think that's
one of the reasons

why me and Ricky
gets along so well.

One thing we have done
throughout the years

is that we
just become instinctive.

He understands me as a person.

He's watched me
do so much interviews,

if you ask certain
specific questions,

he can answer exactly,
almost word for word...

- I've heard it all before.
- how I would answer questions.

I've never said this out loud,

but he has done
a few interviews for me

without asking.

Usain Bolt has never actually
been in Ireland,

which is
quite hard to believe.

I hope he comes there one day.

It's not my fault.

- Oh, it's his fault.
- It's his fault, yeah.

Definitely his fault.

Every time they ask me,
I'm like,

"I'm waiting on Ricky."

I can't go without him.

So hopefully he'll make it
to Ireland

and have
a pint of real Guinness,

not the stuff
he drinks in Jamaica.

The premiere
of this film in Ireland

will be the--
This'll be the perfect--

I went to a small school
on Harcourt Street

in Dublin called High School.

Obviously,
the most famous old boys,

we call them,
was William Butler Yeats.

But he did mention
about his time in High School.

He said, "My schooling
interrupted my education."

I think that put the school

maybe on the back foot
a little bit, I believe.

Yeats was very good friends
with my great-grandfather.

In fact,
they used to play chess.

My great-grandfather
used to

beat the living life
out of him in chess,

which I think created
some awkward moments.

I'd like to think that Yeats

got a lot of influence
from Dunsany,

because when
you walk the lands of Dunsany,

how can you not be
absorbed by the nature?

My name is Randal Plunkett.
I'm the 21st Lord Dunsany.

Once a bodybuilding meathead

to vegan rewilder

and protector
of the animals here.

Here in Ireland,
we are the oldest family

still associated with one place.

So among our people,
we've had my father,

who was an artist,

my grandfather,
who was a soldier

who fought Rommel in Africa.

Horace Plunkett,
the founder of the co-ops,

helped start
the Women's Association.

And he spent almost all
our money

building 2,500 schools.

Because he had an idea,
and the idea was,

we are now a republic.

But the way to truly
be free

was to stand level with
the British

through education.

Saint Oliver Plunkett--

or Oliver Plunkett
at the time---

was arrested.
They found him guilty,

and they hung, drew,
and quartered him

and then set him on fire.

He looks a bit
like my father even now,

so that's kind of grim,

and, in fact, I have
the same bone structure.

And if you look...

here and look at the painting,

you will see some similarities.

Yes, we've been here a while.

Bit like
that old pair of shoes

that you can't throw away.

So this is
a large estate that was

traditionally a large farm.

Out of that,
one third is rewilding.

Now, we removed chemicals,
we removed farm animals.

We allowed everything
just to become natural.

What happened was
the succession plants came

and things
just started booming,

and nobody understood.
Nobody knew what I was doing.

So they thought
I was a decadent millionaire

sitting on a good Meath land,
wasting it,

something that his ancestors
would be ashamed of.

People started
seeing the animals.

He had salmon, otters,
hares, deer,

foxes and pine martin,
red kites, woodpeckers,

drilling away in the morning,
keeping me up.

We embrace the smaller
things of being Irish.

This is not a museum,
and yet it is a museum.

It's a home, but a home
that is also a museum.

I don't consider myself to
be an owner. I don't own this.

I'm a caretaker,
a steward,

and I have a little tradition,
and it's a family tradition.

The next generation
decides whether you have

earned a place on that wall.

You know,
everything that we have

in this place is donated
to us by a Dubliner.

One day we had

a "'lecky," an electrician,

in fixing the lights
here in the museum.

When this electrician
was a boy,

he was asked by his teacher

to write a letter
to someone

who used to
live in his house.

And him
and his family went back

and they did a bit of research,

and they found out,
lo and behold,

Sam Beckett himself
used to live in his house.

And he wrote to Sam.

Samuel wrote back, talking
about his love for the house,

his memories with his brother,
the room that he was born in.

Genius, as always,
Beckett signs it.

"If you ever see my ghost
in house or grounds,

"give it my regards.

Yours antiquatedly,
Sam Beckett."

Oscar is, I think,

one of the most
quintessential Dubliners,

you know, for one,
because he didn't stay.

Many think that he's British.

Oscar Wilde, of course,
quintessential Londoner.

I still quote Wilde
now in my speeches.

One of my favorite
Oscar Wilde quotes is,

and it applies
to this Tory government.

"They know
the price of everything

but the value of nothing."

Can you quote any James Joyce?

Oh, God. And I've just
been playing James Joyce.

That's a low blow.
That's a low blow.

James Joyce, for me, is

the greatest novelist
of the 20th century.

He left Ireland as
a young man in 1904.

In the last 37 years
of his life,

he only returned
to Ireland three times,

and yet practically
everything he wrote

was set in the Ireland
he left in 1904.

And he wrote about that
incessantly,

and forensically,
and brilliantly.

He gives us a picture
of this country

which is an Ireland
on the cusp of change.

The great political
transformation took place

a decade later when Joyce
was already writing "Ulysses."

What people don't maybe
know enough

in relation to Joyce's
continual contact with Ireland

as it was being heard,

was he kept Raidió EÉirea on

practically day and night
as his sight was fading.

When he was buried,
the local ambassador writes over

to the Secretary of the
Department of Foreign Affairs,

and the question is,
"Did he die a Catholic?"

"If he didn't, better
to be safe" and so forth.

For goodness' sake.

Well, I have seen
James Joyce's passports

on display at
the University of Buffalo,

where they have a huge
collection of Joyce material,

and they are
both British passports.

James Joyce famously

didn't have an Irish passport.

- Yeah, yeah.
- He traveled on a British one.

Does that make him
any less Irish?

No, it doesn't.
It absolutely doesn't,

particularly for what
he's done for our country.

James Joyce
actually set up

the first-ever cinema
in Ireland.

Did he?
I never knew that.

Does it still exist?

There's a Penneys

commemorating the Volta cinema.

What a shame
it's not there still.

Have to do with the plaque.

James Joyce
should be acknowledged

for his forward thinking
and his passion for cinema.

Yes.
Not many people know.

He saw,
I think, very early on,

and it's there in the writing

of how images
are very important.

It didn't succeed
not because of Joyce,

but rather because
it was specializing

in international and
foreign cinema,

and the market for
that in Ireland at that time

simply wasn't
great enough to be able

to sustain
a venture of that kind.

Well, it's Bloomsday today.

The festival is normally
a week after Bloomsday,

but it corresponds today,
and so we did a reading

this morning, my wife and I,

to celebrate one of Ireland's
greatest writers, Joyce.

"Quick warm sunlight

"came running
from Berkeley Road swiftly,

"in slim sandals,
along the brightening footpath.

"Runs... she runs to meet me,

a girl with golden hair
on the wind."

To be able to read that aloud...

hopefully will open up the book

for some people who maybe

didn't get all the way
through it

or never read Joyce.

You know,
I'm an Englishman.

I was glad the audience
seemed to accept

that I didn't have
an Irish accent.

My wife made up
for that with her Molly.

"She doubled a slice
of bread

into her mouth, asking,

What time's the funeral?

"Eleven, I think," he answered.
"I didn't see the paper."

The audience certainly seemed
to accept it

because in a way,
the accent isn't important

if it doesn't ring out of
the dialogue,

which with Bloom,
it doesn't really.

"Did Roberts pay you yet?"

"9:20."

"What had Greta Conroy on?"

"9:23."

"What possessed me
to buy this comb?"

"9:24."

I hope a lot of people
will go to the library here,

buy a volume and
take it home and try it,

realize that it's
not as impenetrable

as people sometimes think.

"He allowed his bowels
to ease themselves quietly

"as he read,

"reading still patiently,

that slight constipation
of yesterday quite gone."

"Hope it's not too big.
Bring on piles again.

No, no, just right."

In England
we tend to have--

I swear,
I mustn't generalize,

but we tend to have
rock festivals everywhere.

In Ireland
it's slightly more

mixed in its culture.

I mean, of course, we do
have rock festivals here too,

but there's other stuff.

I think it's all part
of the fabric of this society

and the society I'm very
pleased to be a-blowin' in.

It's a wonderful weekend.
I don't want too many people

to come because
then it'll get too big.

The occasional
person should come.

James Joyce.
WB Yeats. Jack Yeats.

I started to collect
Irish paintings

when I started to have
some money.

Art is something
you don't buy for profit.

You buy for what you enjoy
the look of it.

And it's only
when it's not there

that you actually miss it,

because you take it for
granted after a period of time.

But when
you just take it off the wall,

even if it's loaned it to
a museum, which I did, it's--

"Where's my painting?"

I'd be shocked.
The room was totally dead.

And I found that, to my horror,
loaning a painting,

I was giving a bit of myself
away for that period of time.

Did you know that there was

a big art robbery
in the Tate?

No, I didn't. How did
they get away with that?

Oh, she was beautiful painter.
Yeah, I remember this.

The theft in 1956

of a priceless piece of
French impressionist art

from the Tate Gallery
in London

was the art heist
of the century.

Hugh Lane was born
in Cork of modest means.

He came to London and
became

the preeminent art dealer

for British
and international art.

Hugh Lane opened the first
contemporary art gallery.

He wanted Dublin, Ireland,

to have its own
contemporary art gallery

and left this incredible
bequest of contemporary art.

He was quite
in debt at this stage and

he had arranged a great sale

which he personally
had to go to the States on.

He had some kind
of a premonition,

and he changed his will,

which had gifted
and granted

his private
personal collection

to the National Gallery
of Ireland,

to the people of Dublin.

That will had
not been witnessed.

Sir Hugh Lane went down
in the Lusitania

and could not see
his great desire and ambition

to create
a world class collection

of impressionist art in Dublin.

Monets, Manets, Renoirs,

the Tate gallery here
held onto them.

"They're too good for you.

"You haven't
got somewhere to put them,

and then it'd be lost,
it'd be wasted on you."

My uncle decides

that he's going to right
this historical wrong.

Paul and Billy
were doing this

out of a sense
of moral righteousness.

51 years after the will
was made,

the moment came.
The guards were off,

and they go about the heist.

"Jour D'EÉté"
by Berthe Morisot

is the picture
they're going to swipe.

Uncle Paul lifted it off
the wall,

walked out the door.

The photographer was
waiting as planned,

and took
the iconic picture.

All of the papers globally
had printed the picture

knocked off all of the stories
from the world headlines,

including the marriage of
Grace Kelly to Prince Ranier,

drawing attention to a...a...

a kind of great
national outrage

that had been committed
upon the people of Ireland.

That sounds ridiculous!

It's not ridiculous.

That's not ridiculous.

I'm making it sound
like the famine here.

If we can at least get it
back onto Irish soil,

the gesture will have
been made.

The Irish embassy in London
immediately handed it back.

"The Independent"
in London managed to get hold

of a redacted file
on the events.

And it was quite clear

that at the highest
ministerial level

in the British government,
the decision was made

not to make martyrs of
Paul Hogan and Bill Fogerty.

Sarsfield Hogan,
my grandfather,

was called by Dubliner DCI
McGraw of Scotland Yard.

"Your boy is on the ferry.

"He'll be at the north wall
at 7:30 in the morning.

You can pick him up.
He's not to come back."

They effectively
got away scot-free.

The publicity generated
led to further discussions and

it was decided that
the pictures could be shared.

They came to a compromise
whereby

they co-own the paintings

and they rotate
between the two institutions.

That is a great legal fudge.

The pictures
must finally be returned

to their rightful home,
which is Dublin,

in the municipal gallery
in Parnell Square.

It is in effect
the Irish Elgin marbles,

and we want them back.

We want them back in Dublin
where they belong.

Really, enough is enough.

Now bring them back home.

It would be rude not to.

I'll have to put my thinking
hat on here, you know.

"Thomas Crown 2."

Hugh Lane
played an inadvertent role

in making Ireland the modern,

thriving economy
that it is today.

Paul Hogan's father,
Sarsfield Hogan,

who is a leading civil servant
in the Irish government.

Sarsfield Hogan
fully expected to become

the first secretary of
the Department of Finance.

But because
his son was involved in

a diplomatic incident,

he was overlooked
for promotion.

And a young TK Whitaker
was appointed in his stead.

The visionary for
the modern Irish economy,

he created policies that made
Ireland less protectionist

and more
international-looking

from old Ireland to New Ireland.

So the Tate gallery theft was
the butterfly effect

that really led Ireland

into its period
of economic prosperity.

When I was born,
Ireland was objectively

the worst educated population
in Europe

and it's now the best.

My generation was the first
generation of Irish people

to have the opportunity

to be educated
to the highest level.

Remember,
my first year at school was

the first year of free education
introduced in the 1960s.

Most of the people that I met
at college at that time

were like me, experiencing
university education

for the first time
in their family history.

That has been
the transformative element

that has caused
our country to be changed,

changed utterly,
in the words of WB Yeats.

When I first went abroad,

Ireland was the poorest
country in western Europe

and I ended up in Berlin
opening a Primark store.

I've also gone from representing
an Ireland

that really was identified
with its whiskey,

Guinness,
and very little else.

What brings multinationals
here? Is it the weather?

No.

They're coming here
for a number of reasons.

Literally for the first
time in 100 years,

the dominant industry worldwide
was extremely footloose.

You had companies like
Microsoft, Facebook,

Google, Intel,

all who were knowledge-based,
looking to grow globally.

Ireland has access
to the European market.

So suddenly now we are
not at the edge of Europe.

We're actually a small island
at the center of the world.

We've got
a highly educated workforce,

we speak English.

Culturally,
because of our diaspora,

are totally in sync,

and we've got the lowest
corporation tax in Europe.

And bingo,
you've got the perfect storm.

So, timing was bang-on.

I mean, they started thinking
in the late 1980s--

they said, well, okay,
there are gonna be

three big sectors that are
gonna be really important--

IT, which was
no great prizes for it,

but they also thought
about pharmaceuticals, biotech,

and they thought about a thing

which nobody was thinking about
that much,

which is medical devices.

In each of those areas now,
you've got eight and nine

of the top 10 companies
in the world in Ireland.

My wife got a Fulbright.
We both came over.

She was basically studying
the Irish video game ecosystem

to see if there's anything
that could be improved

in the economy
for the games industry.

What it means is that now
there's a tax credit for us

developing games in Ireland.

That's when we opened
our Irish game studio,

so we moved from
Silicon Valley right to Galway.

It feels like the beginning
of something really cool,

and the country's amazing.

The people are amazing.
Great place to live.

One of the things
with the kind of economy

that we've developed is that
it's two economies, isn't it?

And this is
an extraordinary economy.

You know, it produces
a lot of very well-paid people.

Uh, it--it obviously employs

highly educated people
from Ireland,

but also, of course,
from everywhere else,

which makes Ireland
very, very expensive, of course,

and then makes it very hard
to live

for people
who are not in that economy.

The story of the Irish Derby,

when we run the Irish Derby
with Zagreb

is a very interesting story,
because that particular day,

Dermot Weld did not want
to run the horse,

and I insisted the horse ran,

and the horse ran away
with it.

Ladies and gentlemen,
it's your winner Aidan O'Brien!

It's the Dubai Duty Free
Irish Derby Day

here at the Curragh.

It's just a historic race
in the flat racing calendar.

It's the most prestigious.

How does Aidan O'Brien
celebrate an Irish Derby?

Listen, no, we'll go up,

and we'll have a cup of tea now
and relax.

The Irish Derby is
our most important race.

It's probably one of the best
race courses in the world.

It's one of the sports
that we're able to compete

at the very top, our breeding,
at show jump and racing.

Irish horsemen do well
all over the world.

They're everywhere.

So, it's great
that the Irish Derby

is as important a race as it is.

When it comes
to the equine industry,

you know, it's--it's something
that a lot of Irish people are--

are just good at,
is working with horses.

The horse racing
industry has been for decades

subsidized by the Irish government.

73 million euros was given
last year.

For every pound
the government puts in,

they get so much back
into the exchequer.

It was a very enlightened piece
of legislation, in 1969 it was,

when they created
an industry out of nothing.

The stallions were tax-free,
but at least the industry

got started
by getting help from government.

We need people
from all over the world

investing in their horses
in Ireland,

so we need to encourage it
rather than hinder it.

It's like wealth in general.

It'll come
to where it's welcome.

One of the main constraints
with the Irish economy

is that we're small.

So, in order to counter that,
we've had to use tax breaks

in order to overcome
those early disadvantages.

But now the Irish economy
has reached critical mass.

At the moment, Ireland is

the ninth largest investor
in the USA.

In 2019, for example,

we invested more in the USA
than France,

which is a real demonstration

that we have real substance
in the economy now.

More than 100,000 Americans
these days

are employed
by Irish origin companies.

What an extraordinary shift
and change

we've seen in a generation,
you know, from beer and biscuits

to now being a high tech center
in Europe.

When you think of Ireland,

is there anything
that comes to mind?

Beer.

Leprechauns.

- The accent.
- Uh... potatoes.

When I first
opened my restaurant,

people were like, "Oh,
you're gonna serve potatoes."

And although they meant it
in a humorous way,

it's a joke that steeped
in a lot of sadness.

It's a--It's a joke
that we were so reliant

on the potato
because of the nutrition.

There was so much nutrition
in a potato

that with a small patch
of land out your back garden,

you could feed a family of 10,

and that's why
we were so dependent on it.

So, there's something
deeply sad about someone

joking about me loving
and Irish people loving potatoes

when we loved it because it was
actually how we survived.

Um, so it's what--
That was a bit dark and gloomy.

Sorry about that.
But it is a bit sad,

the idea that people think
they're cracking a joke

when actually they're kind of
slagging off our--our dark past.

I tell you one thing for sure,

I'm shocked how many
English people slag off

Irish people's drinking.

I'm like, um...
I've been to the English pubs.

I think they're quite fond
of a tipple themselves.

They say the definition
of a real Irishman is somebody

who doesn't go to bed
the same day they get up.

We do like
our social activities.

We do like to lubricate them
sometimes with alcohol.

Aye, he's a good drinker.

- Not anymore. I think he's--
- Used to be.

- I think he's getting shaky now.
- No.

Well, we all know
the Irish quite like

a little drop of red wine
every now and again.

There's like
an ongoing joke globally,

that, like, all the Irish
are all alcoholics.

Like, it's not--it's not
a great reputation to have,

but, you know, it's not
necessarily completely wrong.

Ireland is a country that is
oftentimes put in a box.

We love that box.
We thrive in that box.

We use it for tourism. We use
it for industry, absolutely,

but it's ours to use.

People are very ready
to weaponize

what they understand
about Ireland

but are never willing to learn
what they don't understand.

I remember I was at an event
at the Irish Embassy here,

and there was
an Englishwoman there,

I said something about something
being very different in Ireland,

and she was just like,
"But how is it different?"

And I was just like,
"It's a different country."

You're telling someone
where you're from,

and if they go,
"Oh, yeah, so Britain." No.

I didn't realize that there was

that ignorance
outside of Ireland.

Like, it was painful to see

Paul Mescal be mistaken
as British.

The French
claimed Samuel Beckett

because he often wrote
in French.

The English--in fact,
we interviewed Sadiq Khan,

the London mayor, who called
Oscar Wilde a Londoner. Um...

He doesn't get out much.

If they wish to appropriate
us Irishmen and women

and make them theirs,
then so be it.

There's enough of us
to go round.

Gotta have a sense of humor
about these things.

Really, take it lightly.
Take it lightly.

My father told me a story

when he first came to London
in the '60s--the signs he saw

outside the guest houses
and the B&B's.

"No Blacks, no Irish, no dogs."

It was a sharp...
intake of breath

to be the outsider

and to realize
that you were different

and somehow maybe didn't belong.

It was, uh, you know,
from being taught

by the Christian Brothers
in Navan,

which is a whole other story,
uh...

You know, uh...

few children to this
comprehensive school system

of 2,000 children.

It was a short, sharp shock.

Being Irish,

how were you received
in your new school in London?

Oh, I was definitely made
to feel Irish.

They didn't let you forget
that you were Irish,

which I wore
as an emblem of pride.

They wouldn't say my name,
Pierce,

or couldn't say my name, Pierce.

I was known as "Irish."

That was my nickname,
and, uh, and--

and I took it
and wore it with pride.

You learn how to adapt,

and I suppose in some respects
it was the start of performance

'cause I had to assimilate.
I had to blend in.

I had to lose the accent.

Ended up talking like that,
ya know?

All right, mate?
All right, yeah.

So, I was with all the lads.

I enjoyed that company
and that life,

and I kind of
created a mystique for myself,

falling in with the guys

that were the hard guys,
the hard nuts,

but I wasn't really a hard nut.

I just, uh...

I just went with them
to protect myself.

Older Irish people that I met
when I was ambassador in London

have told me about seeing
these signs of, you know,

"No Irish need apply here."

That's changed because
Irish people have changed it.

Phil Lynott not only showed up
as an Irishman in the UK,

but he showed up
as a Black Irishman.

Shane MacGowan,
second generation Irish,

forming The Pogues

and coming out
with "Fairytale of New York,"

and, really,
through the Irish creativity

and hard work and so on,
they broke down those barriers.

There's over 7,000
Irish pubs outside of Ireland.

I think there's more Irish pubs
outside of Ireland

than inside of Ireland.

Yeah, anytime you're away
anywhere,

and you see an Irish pub,
you're just like,

ah, there--there we are.

But, um, I guess
they're just pubs here.

They're just not Ir--
uh, typically Irish,

but they're just pubs.

Everybody that opens
an Irish pub

should have it in a contract

that they have to go spend
some time in Ireland

to learn how
to pour proper pints.

It's a point of gathering,
you know, when you go--

when you see an Irish pub
somewhere, you know--

you know that you're gonna have
a good time, good beer.

It's quite fun to see
there's a real atmosphere,

Also, of course,
a place where you are able

to meet other Irish people.

Have you been
to an Irish pub ever?

Just in Dublin, but I don't
drink beer, just wine. Sorry.

Ah, yes, sure.

Because I lived in Dublin,
so it's very great experience.

So, Guinness--it's good.

I love Guinness.
I love the stout.

Everybody loves "Gin-ness."

What is it to be Irish, actually?

Well, it's not just having
a pint of Guinness,

that's for sure.

Any Irish person
mention they're Irish,

and the word "Guinness" is
usually one of the first things

that people bring up.

Implies that we're drunks,
basically, yeah.

Guinness is not Irish-owned
anymore, but it doesn't matter.

It's a global brand
that's made its way

all the way around the world

and a bit like the--
the diaspora,

we're all so proud of that.

I believe you own
the Cashel Palace Hotel.

Is it true that the first pint
of Guinness

was drawn from the well there?

Uh, so--so, legend has it.
You should come and taste it,

and you'll see for yourself
that it's different down there.

My name's Rory Guinness,

and I am
a humble brewer from Dublin.

We've been involved
with the City Centre of Dublin

since my great-great-
great-great-great-grandfather

Arthur Guinness
arrived from County Kildare

and signed a 9,000-year lease

on a bankrupt, derelict brewery
in St. James's Gate in Dublin.

One of the biggest things
that I want to do

is try Guinness,
is go to the factory,

because I'm a massive--
I drink a lot of Guinness.

I want to do the tour.

It's always great to think

about who's enjoying
a pint of Guinness.

Kim Kardashian, I saw the other
week, was enjoying a drop.

Gwyneth Paltrow loves a glass of
Guinness to steady her nerves.

Prince Albert of Monaco--
he loves a pint, too,

and he's a cousin
through marriage.

He's drinking the family drink.

Absolutely. Princess Florestine,
my ancestor in the 19th century,

she married the Duke of Urach
of Wurttemberg.

Their great-great-grandson

married
into the Guinness family.

I had forgotten about that
when I had my first Guinness,

but now it takes on
a very special meaning.

I am Chairman
of the Iveagh Trust,

which was started
by my great-great-grandfather.

The Iveagh Trust, to this day,

is one of Dublin's largest
social housing providers.

Previous generations
of the Guinness family

understood the importance

of space for recreation,
space to meet your neighbors,

space to provide
the breathing lungs

for the city.

I think of St Stephen's Green,
Iveagh House,

the Iveagh Gardens, St Anne's.

- Do you hear the bells?

Those are the bells given
by my great-great-grandfather

to St Patrick's Cathedral,

and they're still
chiming to this day.

Rory,
is Guinness good for you?

Oh, you would love that.

Guinness is good
for the people of Dublin

and the Irish community
around the world.

After all, Guinness is
a quintessentially Irish drink.

When you're doing business
with people,

and you see an Irish name,
or you see a connection,

and my wife laughs at me a lot
because the first question

I always ask,
"Are you from Ireland?"

And they're not
from Ireland at all.

They're just called Gallagher or
something from many years ago.

People sometimes laugh.

We say, Irish wineries.
What do you mean?

The fact that the Irish
were so prominent

in the wine industry
around the world.

In California were
the Barrett family from Galway

or Montelena, 'cause I remember
Mendoza in Argentina

sitting with the owner
of a winery,

and I was asking him,
"What's your name?

He said, "My name is
José Luis Hernandez Murphy."

Doesn't that just sum it up?

The highest selling white wine
in Ireland

is called Santa Rita 120.

refers to the 120 men
with Bernardo O'Higgins

who hid in a winery
as the Spaniards passed through

and then came out, regrouped
and defeated the Spaniards

and got independence for Chile,

Bernardo O'Higgins traces
all his origins back to Sligo.

What a story.

So, the Wild Geese--many of them
went into the wine industry,

particularly in France,

particularly
in the Bordeaux area,

and they became known
as the "Winegeese."

Throughout Bordeaux,
there's monuments,

street names, pubs that carry
this Irish heritage,

Médoc is a land of immigrants.

It's not the American dream,
but it's the Médoc dream.

We are now
actually in the vat room

of Château Langoa
and Léoville Barton,

and you can see how close it is
from the Gironde Estuary,

which is very important.

It has always been
very important for us

because it's really
thanks to this estuary

that we have this wonderful
climate and terroir,

but it's also the river
that saw our first ancestor,

Thomas Barton, arrive.

And here's the river
that started everything.

During the French Revolution,

the grandson went back
to Ireland,

and he actually bought a farm
that became very important

in our family,
which is Straffen House.

It still has this feel
of home in a way,

although it's not ours anymore.

It's now the famous K Club.

The K Club has
Barton objects, rooms,

and, of course,
a lot of Barton wines.

It's a lovely building.
My father was born there.

My grandparents
spent a lot of time there.

The house was purchased in 1989
by Dr. Michael Smurfit.

Loved his wines, in particular
his older Bordeauxs,

which is why we have
such an amazing collection

in the cellar downstairs.

I have fond memories
of the K club

and of having many
a fine meal there.

Lovely estate. Decided to
turn it into a golf complex.

The K Club turned out
to be a spectacular success.

Part of my DNA, if you will,
with the Barton family.

Well, I was actually drinking
Léoville Barton last night.

I only finished half
a bottle of it,

so I'll finish
the other half bottle tonight.

Hello, I'm Ronan Dallais,
working in the Château Clarke.

I'm Irish, grew up in Dublin.

Hundreds of years ago,
the Château Clarke

was owned by an Irish family.

Now the Château Clarke
is currently owned

by the Rothschild family,
but we are proud to keep

the name of Château Clarke
and the Irish heritage.

CAZES-HACHEMIAN:
The Lynch-Bages estate

has a world-renowned
reputation.

For us, it's very important

to stay true to our roots,
and our roots are Irish.

We say, "Lynch-Bages,"
but we actually should say...

Lynch-Bages.

So, it comes from
the Lynch family from Galway.

They established themselves
in Bordeaux in 1691.

Thomas Lynch
had a number of children.

Two of them became famous
in the history of the region.

Jean-Bapiste Lynch
became mayor of Bordeaux,

and his son Michel
became mayor of Pauillac,

which is a commonality
with my family,

because my grandfather,
André Cazes,

was also mayor of Pauillac
for 42 years.

So my great-grandfather,
Jean-Charles Cazes, was a baker.

He had the unfortunate event
in his life

that his bakery burned down,
so he had to reinvent himself.

He became a tenant farmer
at Lynch-Bages

and he was able to acquire
Château Lynch-Bages

in the late 30s,
which today is a good decision,

because I would be
selling bread instead of, uh,

talking to you
and drinking some good wines.

A few decades ago,

my father wanted to honor
the Lynch family roots.

He visited Galway and was told
that there was a Mrs. Lynch

still living
in a house down the street.

And he showed up unannounced
at Mrs. Lynch's doorstep,

and Mrs. Lynch opened the door.

He introduced himself
as Jean-Michel Cazes

from Château Lynch-Bages
in Pauillac,

and she said very nicely,
"I was expecting you."

So, she invited him for tea,

and the friendship started
that day.

There is a real deep Irish
connection with the château.

The founder
of Château Phélan Ségur

back in the very early
19th century

was Bernard O'Phelan,
a wine merchant,

and he purchased a small estate

thanks to the help
of his father-in-law.

If you ever come to visit
Phélan Ségur,

you'll be experiencing
our tribute to Ireland.

We refurbished a whole room,

and now
it's called the Irish Room,

and we are showing a collection
of original plates

with what we call
the monogram of Phélan.

On the plate,
at the bottom of the monogram,

you will discover
the Claddagh ring.

All Irish people who come
and stay with us for lunch

and see these plates,
they find the Claddagh ring.

I'm telling you, they are happy.

And the atmosphere is
really an Irish atmosphere.

Another tribute
to our Irish roots

is this St. Patrick's gift box
that we designed.

It doesn't show a 3-leaf clover,
but a 4-leaf clover,

because we need
and we bring luck.

When Bernard came to France,

it was thanks to his friend,
Hugh Barton.

Just incredible that years
and years and years after that,

we are so close
to the Barton family.

To be among
these Irish families, you know,

it's something that is strong
and--and very important

to our--to our heart.

Phélan Ségur
is still Phélan Ségur.

Lynch-Bages is still
Lynch-Bages.

For obvious reasons, it's still
Langoa and Léoville Barton,

but why do you think that
heritage has been respected?

Goodness me. Well, perhaps
because there were names

that were recognized
at the time.

Let's say Lynch-Bages
would be just Bages. So what?

The "Lynch" definitely
has a history to it.

Look at the way
"Phélan Ségur" is written.

You have this kind
of very typical French accent

on the "é."

So, I think it tells a lot
about how these Irish families

really got integrated
in the landscape of Bordeaux.

I think they wanted to be part
of the culture of the region.

I also think it says
a lot about the French,

making sure
everything becomes French.

Did you know
that the Irish make wine?

No.

Irish wine would be
considered Guinness

and maybe a bit of whiskey.

I've never tried Irish wine.

I didn't even know
there was Irish wine.

Give me some. Wow.

I haven't tried Irish wine, no,
because I've never heard

of an Irish wine before.

Oh, no, never.

- Never.
- Never.

- Fromage.
- Fromage.

You know Château Lynch-Barge?

- Of course.
- Château Phélan Ségur?

- Of course.
- Château Kirwan.

- Yeah.
- Château Léoville Barton.

- Yeah.
- Château Clarke.

Yeah.

Are they Irish wine?

Why Irish? No.

- Where are they from?
- Uh, uh, Médoc.

All of these châteaux

were set up by Irish people,
so--

Yeah, but the workers--
they are French.

So, even though they were--

And the terroir is French,
so it's French.

So, it's Irish inspiration,

but French terroir.

That's it.

If we ask you again,

"Have you ever tried
Irish wine," what would you say?

- Yes.
- Yes, very good.

What is
Ireland's greatest contribution

to the world?

It's people.

Everybody seems to gel
with Irish.

These are really
unfair questions, Frank.

I-I-...to--to just drop on me,
that's ridiculous.

Is it U2?

Not U2. The art, the plays,
the literature, the paintings,

the sculpture, the music.

Our gardens and gardeners
that tell a story.

Still actually a story
that hasn't been told enough.

I often like to say
that I was the one who started

the rewilding movement
in Ireland,

but in reality, I was
about a hundred years later.

William Robinson was

the first person to create
the concept

of "The Wild Garden."

Although a lot of it
was popularized in the UK,

it has Irish roots.

We Irish can make a case
for having produced

the greatest poet
In William Butler Yeats,

the greatest novelist
in James Joyce,

and the greatest dramatist in
Seán O'Casey or Samuel Beckett.

Love Samuel Beckett.
Our son Paris--Paris Beckett--

he's named after Samuel.

Keely wanted to call Paris,
Paris.

I think
it's a magnificent name.

I said, that's a very powerful
name for a boy.

So, I think it has
to have a little something else,

and Beckett I love,
so Paris Beckett Brosnan.

We have Bram Stoker,
created "Dracula."

You have my own
great-grandfather who was

one of the pioneers
of the fantasy literature--

Lord Dunsany,
influenced Tolkien,

had five plays on Broadway
consecutively.

Not even Shakespeare had that.

Ireland is a small island,
really,

on the periphery
of northern Europe,

but we are united
by a common bond,

which is a pride of who we are.

Because no matter
where you go in the world,

whether it be
in the world of literature

or the world of music
or the world of sport,

we have made an impact
at every level,

despite our smallness.

We've always punched
above our weight

as a small nation, haven't we?

You know, a 21-year-old son
of a Syrian migrant

created a company, Apple,
and it started at zero.

I mean, Ryanair here in Ireland
set off in 1985,

flew from Waterford with
18 passengers in one plane.

So, I love that notion. Nobody
started a large organization.

Tony O'Reilly was just one of
the world's great communicators.

He was under pressure
launching Kerrygold,

which was the name
he came up with,

to call it Leprechaun Butter.

And, I mean, that would
have been such a disaster.

Tony O'Reilly, Michael Smurfit,
and Tony Ryan

were the Three Musketeers

who were doing this stuff
internationally

when there weren't Irish players
on the world stage.

We all owe them
a debt of gratitude for that,

because they did it at a time,

to use Myles na Gopaleen's
expression,

when it was neither popular
or not profitable,

but they made it both.

Tony O'Reilly saying he
succeeded despite being Irish,

whereas now, people succeed
because they're Irish.

Very, very proud of this.

Jefferson Smurfit Corporation

was the largest, fastest
growing company in America.

Yeah, that's fantastic.

Look where Apple is.

$3 trillion company now.

Yeah, so Jefferson Smurfit--
number one. Apple 13.

Wow. That's incredible.

Slight change
of results since then.

Well,
they're both Irish companies.

That's Her Majesty The Queen
giving me the knighthood.

Ireland doesn't have awards
and doesn't give awards.

The only thing you can get
in Ireland

is an honorary doctorate.

Therefore,
it didn't seem right to me

that when I was knighted
by Her Majesty The Queen,

to use a title in Ireland,

where Ireland
didn't honor titles.

Although this is a republic now,

and I'm often referred to
as Lord Dunsany,

in reality, as a republic,

I always introduce myself
as Randal Plunkett.

I allow other people,
usually Americans,

to call me Lord Dunsany.

I was born in England,
grew up in Ireland,

so I was moving quite a lot
as a young man,

and I remember the war years
very well

and my father being in the army,
marching past that gate

in St Helens in Lancashire,
where I grew up.

He was a big man to begin with.
He was over 6 feet.

My mother was very small.
My mother was just over 5 feet.

They used to talk
about the weather down here

and the weather up there.

They had eight children,
which I was the eldest.

We had a farm in Cleadon village
near Sunderland.

My father coined the expression,

"You buy brains,
and you make businessmen."

And he decided at age 16,

myself and my late brother Jeff
pulled out of Clongowes Wood,

went straight to the factory
floor and worked our way up.

And I learned at a very young
age how takeovers worked

and how balance sheets worked.

So, when my term came to be
to be running the business,

I knew where the goalposts were,

and I knew how to get
the ball over the line.

All these things come running
back when I talk to you.

Well, having nationalized
the Irish industry,

the government announced

that they're entering
into an agreement with the UK,

and in 10 years,
we're going to be equal tariffs.

Ireland made its own shoes
in those days.

It made its own shirts
and all these sort of things.

They're all going to go
by the wayside.

We were going to be decimated.

Our customer base
was going to be decimated.

So, I got the blessing
from my father to diversify

the company into the UK first

and then eventually
into America,

without which we wouldn't
have been where we are today

if we hadn't done that.

In Smurfit, I set out to be

the best producer
of corrugated boxes

in the United Kingdom.
That was my goal.

We became the best,
and because we were the best,

we became the biggest.

One day I was in Los Angeles,

and one young analyst there
asked me,

"Have you ever thought about
buying

Container Corporation of America
from Mobil Oil?"

I was on a plane the next day
to New York,

and I tell you,
never looked back since then.

It was the greatest deal
I ever did.

That was the foundation
of the family fortune.

I gambled the company
twice in my life,

and that was
probably once too many.

In my day, nobody thought
of an Irish multinational.

We were the first.

You're having some fun now.

Is Michael Smurfit right

in saying that Smurfit was
the first?

Yes, he is,
in the 20th century.

We have been doing this
since 1759,

so I would argue Guinness is
the first Irish multinational.

I was never one
to scream from the rooftops

about what we gave as
a family or as a company.

When they put my name
over the business school,

for example,
I was horrified initially.

True giving is about
'cause you genuinely believe

that you have to give back
to society what is given to you.

And we got
a great deal from Ireland,

and we should
give something back to it.

I was asked
by the Rotunda Hospital

to come to visit one day,

and I came into this room,
and I said, "What's this?"

This is incubators.

And they said
they're going to lose

about four or five babies
that month

because they didn't
have enough incubators.

I said, "You're joking me."

I said, "You get on a plane,
go to America,

buy four incubators and bring
them in, whatever it costs."

I couldn't sleep that night

just thinking
of that simple thing like that.

My second son, when he was born,

was born four months premature,
was a blue baby.

He got the last rites.
He was going to die,

and he survived
because of the incubator.

I went back
a couple of years later.

I was invited for some ceremony,

and there was my name
up in the...

in the--
on the plaque on the wall.

I didn't want that.
The last thing I wanted.

What do you consider

your greatest achievement?

That's
a very simple one to answer.

Seeing the Irish flag flying in
my factories around the world,

it was always something
I insisted upon--

the country flag,
the Irish flag,

and the company flag,
three masts in every factory.

Great pride in seeing that.

There's a close relationship
between Monaco and Ireland,

because of the history
of the Kelly family.

And, of course, I'm a very
close friend of the prince.

Give him my best wishes
when you see him.

Michael Smurfit
is a great friend of the family.

It's not only because,
of course,

of his consular duties here
in Monaco, but he helped

with the Princess Grace
Irish Library,

with Princess Grace Foundation,
with my foundation also,

And of course,
he's a great entrepreneur.

Love having conversations
with him

about his take on things.

I noticed
that you have something

interesting on your lapel there.

Well, yeah, I wore that
just for you for today,

but I do wear it
for St Patrick's

and for other
Irish momentous occasions.

And then,
of course, a shamrock tie.

As you can see, I've got
my green Ralph Lauren...

- ...jacket on.

My wife bought me this,
and I'd never really worn it.

Maybe I had one outing.

Through my mother's family,

through the Kellys
of County Mayo

and the ancestral home
in Drumilra,

we knew
that the Irish connection

was very solid.

Princess Grace's grandfather,
John Henry Kelly,

was born in Ireland
in County Mayo in 1847,

and at only 20 years old,
he emigrated.

As for all Irish immigrants
to any country,

but mostly to the United States,
it was extremely difficult.

My grandfather, yes,
he was a great entrepreneur,

and yes,
he was dedicated as a leader,

as a political figure
in Philadelphia,

and also the tremendous career

that my grandfather
had at rowing

is still looked upon
with incredible awe.

Not only a 2-time Olympian,

but a triple gold medalist
in the single and double sculls.

It's uncanny that next year
the Olympics will be in Paris.

I will invite
my Kelly cousins over,

and we will all be able to watch
the double sculls final.

So, that'll be a great way
to celebrate

the 100th anniversary of that
third and final gold medal.

The 1961 visit by Prince Rainier
and Princess Grace was historic

because it was the first ever
visit by any head of state

to Ireland since the creation
of the Irish Free State in 1922.

So, it really
put Ireland on the map.

It was very
apparent that she was thrilled

to reconnect and to introduce
my father and her family

to her Irish roots,
and when I go to Ireland,

some people still remember that
fondly and with great detail.

There weren't
that many heads of state

that went to Ireland
in those days.

I'm still amazed to know
that it had such an impact

on everyone's lives.

Did she instill in you

the sense of the importance
of Irishness?

We knew that she had a passion

for everything of Irish culture.

She would go out of her way
and take time

to explain these things to us.

What she would be very proud of
is setting up

the Princess Grace
Irish Library.

It's a wonderful way
to celebrate my mother's legacy,

and I think
she'd be very proud of that.

The value of a library here
that showcases Irish culture.

Our treasure is
"Ulysses," first edition copy.

That's a copy that I'd like
to finish someday.

I've tried
to go through "Ulysses."

It's a bit tough
to get through in one go,

so...

Uh, maybe when I have more time,

I will be able to go
through that quietly

and peacefully
to get the full gist of it.

We say in Ireland,

it's the book we pretend
the most that we've read.

The other thing
we discovered researching

your Irish heritage,
is that the first photo

of your parents meeting
here in the palace...

Mm-hmm.

...was taken
by an Irish photographer

from Dublin, Edward Quinn.

- Yes, Mm-hmm.
- Ted Quinn.

Um, he had been
the unit photographer

on "To Catch a Thief," so...
- Exactly, yeah.

...Princess Grace and him
had a...

- Yeah.
- ...close rapport, so she's--

she's very relaxed.
- Yeah.

So, it's amazing to think there
was an Irishman capturing...

- I know.
- ...a historic moment

in the Grimaldi family history.

No, and we were able to purchase
his photographic collection.

He was
a really great photographer.

The secret
to a good Irish coffee

is to know what
an Irish coffee is. Right?

When I go somewhere, and I
order an Irish coffee

and it comes out
looking like a latte,

I think I'm--I shouldn't
have ordered that.

You don't want
the cream to sink.

And a lot of people have
a lot of theories

about the back of the spoon,
the top of the spoon.

Balance of sugar.

The trick is
very, very hot coffee...

Good quality Irish whiskey.

...and very, very cold cream.

And then you just need the top
of cream that's not overwhipped

so it looks like a Guinness.

What do you think

is the secret
of a great Irish coffee?

Bushmills Whiskey.

Pre-20th century,
Irish whiskey was possibly

the most important whiskey
in the world,

and I'm sure
that the Scottish people

might, um, might--
might lynch me for that.

But we were. We were
more important than Scotch.

We were better quality
than scotch.

We were drank mostly
in the States and the UK,

our two biggest markets.

Riding high--Irish whiskey.

A couple of global events
and national events happened.

So, first of all, we had
the War of Independence

here in the 1920s.

Our biggest market, the UK,
was now closed off.

Secondly,
our second biggest market,

the U.S., went through
13 years of Prohibition,

where we know it was illegal

both to make, sell,
and drink alcohol.

After Prohibition, we then
had the Second World War.

So, pre-20th century,

we had roughly about
75 distilleries on this island.

Post World War II, we had three.

We see it
that we're all an Irish family,

and we want
to be number one again.

We want our title back
from the Scotch

and everybody else
that's out there.

But Bushmills is one
of the first to make whiskey,

and for us, that's a very
important thing to say,

that in Ireland,
we've been making whiskey

a lot longer than
the Scotch counterparts.

So, the wonderful water
here at Bushmills

is something
we're very passionate about,

and why we believe Bushmills
has that distinct character.

So, our water flows
through the same limestone

and basalt rock
at the Giant's Causeway.

It's a tributary
of the River Bush,

and it's said to have been
blessed many, many years ago

by St. Columba,
one of Ireland's 12 apostles,

as the purest form of water
in Ireland.

So, the best bit about my job

is that I get to taste whiskey
every day and call it my job.

I get to open casks

that haven't been touched
for many, many years

and be the first
to taste that whiskey.

It really is a dream come true
to be a master blender

and be part of the legacy
of Bushmills.

I always like to think,

if you're trying
a whiskey for the first time,

you should sit down
in a lovely, quiet room,

close the curtains,
and don't tell anybody else

you have the bottle.

Let it tell you its story.

Let the sip
of each time you take it

reveal something new to you.

That little hint
of marzipan there.

This one's almost like
Christmas cake in a glass.

I always think of my grandmother
when I'm drinking this one

and those lovely fruitcakes

that she used
to make growing up.

Ricky has explained the rules
of Gaelic and stuff to me.

I would never play that.

That's a very dangerous sport.

If you had a good hurling stick
and you wanted to keep it,

you'd have to, you know,
you get a crack in it.

So, you get the little bit of
metal would be around the turf.

You'd nail that in.

Of course,
that'd slice your head off.

That's a grand hurling stick.
There you go now.

Look at that. Oh, yeah. I used
to love kind of running down

and...

Trying to break a window
or something like that.

Find an old building.

The GAA is one
of the most impressive

amateur sporting organizations
in the world.

My granduncle and grandfather,
John and Jerome Mannion,

played in the first
all-Ireland hurling final.

Back in the day,
in the 19th century,

they came up with the idea
of using whiskey corks

as the interior
of a sliotar ball.

Sliotar. The Sliotar.
Yeah, there you go.

This was to make them less
leaden and heavy when it rained.

This eureka moment came to them
having a drink of whiskey

after a particularly rainy
hurling match.

So, there is
actually a connection

between Irish whiskey
and the GAA.

The GAA was founded in 1884,

and it has given us
a sense of pride,

a sense of belonging,
that no matter where we are,

that rivalry between club

and county is intense.

For an hour on one Sunday
or one Saturday,

we might go hammer and tongs
against each other.

But at the end of the day,

you put your arm
around that person,

and you say you're a family.

That's the GAA.

You don't get
transferred anywhere.

You stay where you are.

This is your home.

This is where you live
and breathe,

build all your memories.

And this is your county,
because Ireland,

some people might not know,
is divided into 32 counties.

My parents are both
Waterford-born and bred.

My mother was very--
actually, both of my parents,

very proud
of their Waterford background,

and that's a form of tribalism.

But then you have the GAA,
which, in my view,

is one
of the greatest organizations

of the 20th and 21st centuries,
an organization that's managed

to develop a code of sport
that only exists in one country.

And that means that our county
identities are so vital to us.

So, I'm a Waterford fan,
and I'll always be,

and I'll always feel
particular affection for

and devotion
to all things Waterford.

You can't leave
your county behind.

Your county's always in you,
no matter what parts

of the country
or the world you're in.

You see it on our small island,

just the differences,
north and south,

even in the north,
within the north.

I always think that the border
is not between north and south,

but it's within
the communities in Ireland.

I think we are quite tribal.

I think we have
a strong sense of community,

neighbors
and the squinting windows

and all that kind of stuff,

everything from language
to sports to food

distinguished
the characteristics

of those different tribes.

Frankly, long may it continue.

I'd hate to think of it
as just one, you know, um,

amorphous kind of blob.

Mr. President, 25 years ago,

a different band of dreamers
and realists, men and women,

peacemakers and idealists,

came together
to make a new promise

to a new generation of people
on this island.

It was the promise of peace,

of a future free from violence
and the fear of violence.

When I grew up through 30 years
of violence on this island,

saw a lot of things I wouldn't
like anybody else to see.

I think there's a very
strong chance that some form

of agreed Ireland could emerge
over the next couple of decades.

I think
we've got to be very careful

how we move forward on this.

I find it disappointing
that the last 25 years of peace

haven't made more progress
towards greater understanding

on the island of Ireland,

and there's still
very deep divisions,

but I do recognize that we are

at an inflection point,
as Joe Biden often says,

where things in the future
may be very different

from the way they are now.

I mean, frankly, my main concern
with United Ireland

is less about the economic

and more about the societal side
of things.

Look, you know,
I'm very proud to be Irish,

but we can't
have a situation where

one group forces another group
into United Ireland.

I don't think
it'll ever come by force.

I don't think it can
and nor should it.

When we were children,
Dad brought us to every county,

north and south,

and my mum is from Omeath
in County Louth,

which is right on the border.

It was in the middle
of the Troubles,

and we heard across the way
what was going on in Newry

and in the north
and in County Down,

you could hear
what was happening.

I would vote
for a United Ireland.

I would. I'd like to see it.

I'm looking forward
to the future we all share.

There's so much
cultural significance

to Northern Ireland.

There's so much history
and rich culture,

that it would be really lovely
to see United Ireland.

But I don't think
our opinion is as important

in this debate as, like,
someone living

in Northern Ireland
at the moment.

I think
they're really in the hotspot.

It's really them
who need to be looked after.

If, in a referendum,

a United Ireland was voted for
by a majority,

would you accept that?

You can see it c--
And what do you think

the community here, you know,
would think about it?

We've just come up
from the south amazed to see

so many Union Jack flags
promoting one view.

Does that surprise you, or do
you just take it for granted?

I'm not surprised,
but I am disappointed.

It doesn't represent me.

And even though
I might have been

from a very loyalist place
geographically, growing up,

these flags excludes others
that I don't want excluded.

Wallace is, you know,
your maiden name?

Maiden name, yes.

- O'Neill is you--
- Is my married name.

Does that seem like
a cross-border divide?

It was when we got...

Yes, it was when we got married.
Yeah. Yes.

We're marr--
uh, 2005, we got married.

We started dating in 2000,

you know, two years
after the Good Friday Agreement.

So... but even two years after
the Good Friday Agreement, yeah,

there was still definitely,
for sure.

So, Sophia, would
you vote for United Ireland?

Uh, I think I would.

I think it's easy enough
for us to say, yeah,

we would want that
and, yeah, we would want

to be united, and we would want
to be one state,

but obviously there's people
here that wouldn't want that.

It's not gonna be
straightforward,

and I'm sure
there's lots of people

who would--who would fear it, probably.

And, yes, the violence,
I suppose, is something

we would be worried about.

We don't want to go back down
that path again.

Once it comes up, and there is
a lot of chat and talk about,

at the time, whenever it
comes to a referendum,

if it does happen,
then it will--

I think there's...
there's certainly...

the very high potential
for trouble or... issues,

as you say,
Northern Irish-based issues

that we're all
very well aware of.

So, I suppose making Ireland
better known for is

places such as this,
as opposed to the violence

and the troubles that have
hopefully seen the last of.

Time will tell, I suppose.

I often see
within a teenage setting

that there's potential
for them to have

very extreme polar views.

But there are a large growing
amount of peoples

from different sides
of the community

consciously deciding
to be educated

in an atmosphere
of tolerance and respect.

For me, it's live and let live.
You get on with your life,

you do your best for
your family, for your children.

You know, it just--
it spans generations.

And until that finishes, I don't
think we'll get very far.

This island is for everyone.

Northern Ireland is
for everyone.

Times are changin',
and I think a lot of people

wanna just get on
and move on with the future.

These are typically
Irish language, Gaelic names.

Uh-huh.

Could you see if you can try
and pronounce...

- Okay.
- ...any of these--the top...

Wow.

Just trying to
ask you, how you pronounce it?

Ah.

No, that's not fair, guys.

That's not fair at all.

Oh, good heavens. [laughs] Oh.

Oh, my God. This--I'm the--

I'm the wrong Irishman
to bring this to.

Okay, I'm gonna try.

Ai-ofee?

- Auf-fee?
- Oaf-fee?

A-fee? Auf-fee?

- Wuff?
-[laughs] No.

A-wuff?

Ao-fee?

No, it's not ao-fee.

Ee-fah.

Dare-buh.

- Deir-bruha?
- It's Deir-bruha?

Dervla.

Deir-blah?

Deer-blah?

Derv-lah.

Pay-drag.

Pa-dreg.

Pa-dring?

Par-rig. Par-rig.

She-bahn.

Shu-ban?

Shu-ban.

Shi-vahn.

And... Say-orze?

Syource?

Soar-cee.

Seer-saw.

I don't know.

Ser-sha. Ser-sha. Ser-sha.

- May.
- May.

- May.

- Yeah, I got one? Yes!
- That's right?

And a few, I came close.
Yeah, it's...

It takes a lot
of imagination, though.

Well done.
I'm impressed that you did...

- Cheers. Frank is much easier.

You were sensible enough

to give your firstborn son
a pronounceable Irish name.

- What did you choose?
- Sean. Sean.

Yes.

This is a very sensible name.

I remember the morning
we named him very well.

We were an Acapulco.

Anyway, that's another story.

You have to help me
with the Gaelic expression,

"100,000 welcomes." What's it?

- Céad Míle Fáilte.
- Céad Míle Fáilte.

Bob Geldof said
that the English

never understood the Irish.

Do you think that?

Um... Maybe the language.
Possibly.

So, in the great void
of the Famine,

uh, this is cliché
for all Irish people. Sorry.

But, um,
in the great void that was left,

a set of artists had to invent
a sense of ourselves.

They had to take
the language hostage

that they were given
and wrestle with it

and make it their own, which
they very successfully did.

We always talk about this,
that we're really happy

that our first feature film

was in our mother tongue,
in the Irish language.

And there's a lovely saying,
isn't there?

An old Irish saying,
"Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam,"

which means,

"A country without a language
is a country without a soul."

And we're so lucky that we have
our own indigenous language

here in Ireland
and that it's--it's spoken.

And hopefully it's experiencing
somewhat of a revival,

you know, of late, so...

I can't even say it in the pa--
Is fuath liom an Ghaeilge.

Like, that means,
"I hate Irish," doesn't it?

But I don't hate Irish.
I love Irish.

I hated Irish--I hated Irish
in school, like, so badly.

You can't go to the toilet
unless you can say it

in the lang--like, like,
so it was...

or if you had to get lines,
and I always had to do lines.

You'd have to write
the lines in Irish.

So, I just, like, associated it
with, like, pun--

like, punishment.

The great thing about Irish

is everyone
becomes very fluent in Irish

when they go on holidays,
and they want to talk about

the English-speaking people
on the beach beside them.

And suddenly we're all able

to put a couple of sentences
in Irish together.

As a man who loves
to complain about things,

to complain in Irish
would have its own joys.

An bhfuil cead agam dul go dtí
an leithreas?

which, if you don't know, is,

"Can I go to the toilet,
please?"

And every Irish person
remembers--

if they remember nothing,
they remember that because

they had to use it in school
if they needed to go for a wee.

So... An bhfuil cead agam
dul go dtí an leithreas?

And if you say it like that,
it sounds very grand,

but it's not at all.

The main one being "sláinte,"

it's used,
I think, on many an occasion

When I go to Ireland,
it's several times a day.

Wasn't it an incredible act
of destruction

to prohibit people
speaking their language,

to change all the names of
their terrain and their ecology?

Punish children
if they use the language,

and the nonsense
of suggesting that there is

something subversive
about using a language

that was used by all of us.
It is just so objectionable.

It was associated
with the mind of empire.

We're not out of it.

The cúpla focal
isn't good enough anymore.

My mother May is
still alive. We speak every day.

May is 91.

There was time lost,

you know, at the beginning
of our lives together.

She was 19, 20 when she had me.

It's very young. Very young.

We'd had
so many years of separation

and hellos and goodbyes.

So, we--we--we've made up
a lot of life over the years.

Thank God for her that she had
the courage to set sail and...

"The hell with the lot of you.

I'm gonna make
a life for my son and myself."

The success that I've had
has been shared with her,

and she comes on the set
with me from time to time.

I try to find movies
in that neck of the woods

just so I can continue that...
that kinship.

My mother May is
a strong, strong lady,

philosophical, Irish.
The Irish mammy.

What is a typical Irish mammy?

Very protective and, um...

loving and... kind of...

It's a slightly negative
connotation as well.

- Yeah.
- Isn't there?

There's this sense of, like,
an over-mothering, perhaps.

You're not overprotective.
He's just--

- He's just always made sure...
- Like a mammy.

...I'm al--

You're asking me,
is an Irish mammy a thing?

I am such an Irish mammy.

Yes, an Irish mammy
is completely a thing.

She never stops being
an Irish mammy.

Every Irish mammy
wakes up every morning,

and she wants her babies
all around her.

That's an Irish mammy for you.

What is an Irish mammy anymore
look like?

If it means loads
of good cooking, I-I know

I'm not an Irish mammy.
Not a great one.

What I love is that wherever
you are in the world,

the minute you hear a flicker
of an Irish accent,

it's like moths to a flame,
and all of a sudden you realize

that you either went
to the same school together

or you're somehow related.

That's the lovely thing
that I love about being Irish.

It's everywhere.

On my mom's side, a Brown is
in our family line, so I have,

I think, 13 or 18% Irish.

My father's French.
He's from Paris,

and my mother is Irish.

Is there a dilemma
watching Ireland and France--

No, there's no dilemma.
We're always for the greens.

We like saying
we have the double nationality--

French and Irish.

Everybody's
very surprised and happy

and interested to know why.

Look at my name--
Rory and Guinness.

You don't get much
more Irish than that.

I'm an American citizen,

but my soul is Irish.

The spirit of me is Irish.

I-I can certainly feel it
in my bones and my blood,

being Irish,

what that means, our ancestors,

the religion, of course.

The religion plays
such a strong part of it.

I like the God I pray to,

the one that I've created
for myself

and the prayers
that I've remembered.

But I have my own--
my own words with him

on a daily basis of--
always with gratitude, I think,

just for this day
and all the days of my life.

You know, it's such a mystery.

There's no doubt
that any Irish person

never really loses
their Irishness.

You know, I have a lot of, uh,
family in America

that have been there
for over 30 years,

and they've become
even more Irish.

You're much more aware
of your Irishness

sometimes, I think,
when you live abroad.

Well, I'm a very proud
Irishwoman, first of all.

I'm also
a very proud Ulster woman.

It all adds to the complexities
of all of our histories,

because it's only
when you start to look back

that it's not quite as simple
as we all thought.

We are ourselves not British.
We are Norman,

so it's normally French bastard,
not English bastard.

We've always been different
than many

of the other titled folk.

We've embraced being Irish.

I've often asked,

"If you were only allowed one
passport, which would you keep?"

I said, in a heartbeat,

I get rid
of my British passport,

even if it meant
taking away the title. So what?

We have Irish passports.
We're Irish.

I'm Irish. Regardless of whether
it be the north or the south.

To be Irish is now something

as diverse as the way we talk,
the number of games we play.

It's something
that's so inclusive,

and I see the new Irish
and the people who were

born outside this state,
who now live in this state,

and they're proud to be Irish.

I've been away from Ireland
longer than I lived in Ireland.

When I first started
going back in the early 2000s,

what really struck me was
the development,

and now when you go back,
that diversity,

you know, it's beautiful to see.

We're
a very international family

and a very international people.

Irishness, and we're now
learning this, by the way,

more and more,
it cannot be confined

to a stereotype of people
who look and sound like me.

So, I remember trying to speak
about racism.

Um, like, like, as a child,
you know, as a young woman,

you would just be met with,
like, a wall of anger

and, like, just, like,
such, such defensiveness.

For me, it's really
interesting that now in Ireland,

there's a thirst
to have those conversations.

It's a story that we've made
a lot of effort

to reflect Ireland
as it is today.

The immigration system
that exists in our name

is currently in contrast

to the Ireland of a thousand
welcomes that we're so used to.

So, I am Irish and Nigerian.

My mum's Irish.
My dad's Nigerian.

I was born in Dublin, um,
at a time where Black people,

anybody who wasn't white,
anybody that was, like,

in any way different,
was extremely rare--

a very different Ireland
to the Ireland of today.

Then there was me
in the midst of all that.

There were so many people
who'd, like,

never seen a person
who wasn't white before.

I know that
because they told me.

I know that because literally,

people would, like,
cross the--the street

to, like, look at me,
to, like, touch my hair,

and then share with me

that they'd--they'd never met
a Black person before.

Um, so I was, like,
the first Black person

that a lot of people met,
and that was, um, I guess,

for--for most of those people,
this is their first time.

But this was something
that kind of, like, determined,

um, my everyday existence,

so it was quite--
it was quite exhausting.

And then there was just--

there was the constant,
um... refrain,

the constant reiteration
that I wasn't--

that I wasn't really Irish,

um, which was difficult because
I wasn't from anywhere else.

You know, I didn't have--
like, my dad's from Nigeria,

but I was born and raised
in Ireland.

So, I didn't--

Often when I spoke, people--
and I had a Dublin accent,

people would be really shocked,
and they'd be like,

"Oh, I thought
you'd be American.

I thought you'd be Jamaican,

I thought you'd be, like,
anything, um, but Irish."

And... I feel it was also, like,
my claims to Irishness

that, um, provoked quite hostile
responses from people, um,

because certainly at that time,
to be Irish meant to be white.

It was all just like, a lot,
you know, for people to...

for people to process.

And then when I finished school,

I just wanted to be somewhere
where I wasn't the Black girl.

I felt really angry
towards Ireland.

In my mind, I was like,
I used to be Irish.

It's quite interesting, though.
Around the time I left

is around the time, um,
Ireland--actually, it was

pretty much, like, maps
perfectly onto each other,

is around the time Ireland

actually started to become
more--more diverse.

So, just as I was leaving,

people from other parts
of the world,

you know, were moving there.

So, there is now
this whole population of people

who are Irish who aren't white.

And it feels
far more ordinary now

than it did when I was a child.

When people ask me how
I've managed to, like, hang on

to my Irish identity, it's like,

I don't think it's something
I could lose,

because I feel
it's, like, such a core--

it's such a core part of me.

I'm not, like, desperate
to be Irish. I just am Irish.

No, you're not.
And then living here,

I really came to understand

my, like, worldview
was very Irish,

and I saw, like, the really
big cultural gap, distance,

gulf between me and, like,
everyone I was meeting.

I feel like over the years
I've been rehabilitating,

like, my relationship
with Ireland,

that realization
of how Irish I am.

In Ireland, there's like
a surrealist, anarchic spirit.

Oh, why am I attracted here?

The land, the sea.

It's the attitude of the people,
the anarchic quality.

I have never sat down and listed
what it is that makes me happy.

When I go west of Skibbereen
to where I live,

I'm honored that I've been
accepted--a bastard Englishman.

I don't know. I always
feel home is where the heart is.

When I'm here, my heart is here.

I love, uh, Ireland.
I love this country.

I love the food, the people,
the beers, everything.

- The weather?
- The weather, too.

Yeah. Of course.

It is a great advantage

that so many people feel
so positively towards Ireland.

It's the reputation, uh,
that we have to protect.

The essence of Ireland
is as a real contributor

and through a general desire
to be a good global citizen

in a changing, challenging,

and, in some cases,
rather dangerous world today.

What's amazing about Ireland

is that we were
once the downtrodden,

and now we are not.

Ireland has become
a wealthy country.

We weren't always.

So, this idea of us kind of
suddenly forgetting

or not being interested
in those who have less than us

shouldn't be
in the Irish vocabulary,

shouldn't be in the mindset,

because
we were once those people.

What the Americans
always often talk about,

about the American dream--

the American dream
is the Irish dream.

That's what--what
the Irish dream really is.

They just stole the idea.

Your story is
the American dream,

but is it really
the Irish dream?

Well, it's my dream, so...

You know,
a man becomes what he dreams.

He travels far
to find out who he is.

This country's been good to me.

Ireland's been good to me.
England's been good to me.

I'm made up
of all of these ingredients

of culture and friendship
and people and work.

Work.

It's powerful if you can live
creative life, artistic life,

and make sense of it
and make money at doing it.

You know,
uh, make a life for your family.

Anyway, that's enough about me.
How was I in the second act?

If you kiss the Blarney Stone,

you're bestowed
with a gift of eloquence.

Do you know, I've never kissed
the Blarney Stone?

I must do that. Might shut me
up for once and for all.

I have a bit of a fear
of heights, and I do believe

you have to go all
the way back and put your--

No, not for me. Not for me.

Do you think begrudgery

is part of the Irish psyche?

Ah, look, I think
we probably invented it.

There's nothing good
about being second in life.

Rather be number one.

Have you been out
to Jamaica to GoldenEye,

owned by Chris Blackwell?
- I did, yes.

Keely and I went out there

when our little boy Dylan
was a babby.

Oh.

I remember Kate Moss was there
and Naomi Campbell...

...was sitting, and Keely,
bless her heart,

she was breastfeeding
at the time--little baby boy.

But sitting there
with Naomi Campbell

and Kate Moss,
and they're topless.

"Oh, look at the baby.
He's lovely. He's lovely"

while she's trying to nur--
he's trying to nurse.

"No, no, no, no. That's Mum."

Usain, I think you helped Ricky

get his honorary doctorate.

Dr. Simms.

- See?
- You got yours first.

Exactly. That's what I'm saying.

I helped him
to get his doctorate.

- I only got my--
- Yeah, I helped him.

If it wasn't for him,
I would never have gotten it.

So--so, you're welcome.

- It's helped me a lot, actually.

- I've done a lot of surgeries.

Got a little fly here,
which is...

It's electric?

There's always potatoes.

There's always, um,
Ballymaloe Relish.

I really love Irish chocolate.

I think Irish chocolate
tastes different

than any chocolate
anywhere else in the world.

But, yeah, I get
little food hampers.

I get them sent, definitely.
They keep me going.

We asked,
"Who's the greatest Irishman?"

And the overwhelming majority
say you, so...

Well, that's a nice way
to end the interview.

Can I just--Can I just say,
they cannot be more wrong?

And as I pointed out, the sense
of the absurd and the Irish,

that's--that's exactly
the perfect example.

- But thank you.
- Sorry, Bob. Um...

Is there any way
you could actually

show us an Irish goodbye

for those who don't actually
know what an Irish goodbye is?

Would you be able to demonstrate
an Irish goodbye to us?

Just run off.

Is it?
It is.

Do a runner. Come on.

What is an Irish goodbye?

Okay, so I never heard of this
until I was in America.

And since
I've started hearing it,

since I started hearing it
in America,

I'm hearing it all the time,
like,

oh, I did an Irish goodbye.

It's leaving without
saying goodbye to people.

But I literally never
heard it until a year ago.

Is it a new thing?
Was it always a thing?

Is it an American thing?

An Irish goodbye.
I'm quite well known for that.

Like, a Irish goodbye
right now, actually.

Run out of things to say.

I think that's
probably a good idea, Frank.

I was trying to think. I think
I've made almost every move.

Don't get hurt, man.
We need you.

You okay? All right.

I'll tell you what happened
to me in America once

after I spoke at an event.
This guy came up to me.

He said, "Gee," said,
"I learned something tonight.

He said,
"Never give a Mick a mic."