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Are you related to anyone famous?

  • 15-05-2014 8:36pm
    #1
    py2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,844 ✭✭✭


    Apparently I've very distantly related to Eamon Dunphy!

    Are you related to anybody we'd know
    either alive today or somebody we would know of from the past?


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  • #2
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Yes.


  • #3
    Renegade Mechanic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,934 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    My sincerest condolences, Op:o


  • #4
    fran17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,264 ✭✭✭fran17


    could be worse OP,you could be related to alan hansen


  • #5
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    py2006 wrote: »
    Apparently I've very distantly related to Eamon Dunphy!

    Are you related to anybody we'd know
    either alive today or somebody we would know of from the past?

    That's nice, but are you related to anyone famous?


  • #6
    Senna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    Sure we're all related to Barack Obama


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  • #7
    LynnGrace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,347 ✭✭✭LynnGrace


    No.


  • #8
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    No, but lots of famous people are related to me.


  • #9
    enda1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,166 ✭✭✭enda1


    Lapin wrote: »
    No, but lots of famous people are related to me.

    Ehhhhh

    Maybe you mean to say:

    No but lots of my relatives are.

    :P


  • #10
    Sir Osis of Liver.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,797 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    Ruubot and myself are 14th cousins it turns out.:)

    Famous here anyway.


  • #11
    demanufactured
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    Ian Kenny from the band Karnivool


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  • #12
    Pwindedd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,301 ✭✭✭Pwindedd


    No - but my mum dated Francis Rossi from The Quo when she was 16. She hates me mentioning it. I think it's kinda cool.


  • #13
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    Guitarist in the Doors is a distant cousin. I don't care how distant - dads Uncles son or some such - I love the Doors, I'll take it.


  • #14
    Kev_2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 976 ✭✭✭Kev_2012


    Jimmy Carr's dad and my dad are 1st cousins, so no.


  • #15
    ABajaninCork
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,411 ✭✭✭ABajaninCork


    Kev_2012 wrote: »
    Jimmy Carr's dad and my dad are 1st cousins, so no.

    Eh? Doesn't that make you second cousins??

    Anyway - am distantly related to the Ferdinands (Rio, Anton & Les).


  • #16
    wendell borton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,336 ✭✭✭wendell borton


    Im related to Ernest Borgnine.


  • #17
    secman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,503 ✭✭✭secman


    My wifes first cousin is married to imelda mays dads brother , but she left him and ran off with someone else ....... so No !


  • #18
    Specialun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭Specialun


    Will i am is my brother from a different brother


  • #19
    Arthur Beesley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Arthur Beesley


    Pwindedd wrote: »
    No - but my mum dated Francis Rossi from The Quo when she was 16. She hates me mentioning it. I think it's kinda cool.

    What age was he?


  • #20
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Arthur Beesley wrote: »
    What age was he?

    Fifty.


  • #21
    Legs.Eleven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,987 ✭✭✭Legs.Eleven


    The drummer from The Boomtown Rats is a distant cousin and my stepmother is related to Padraig Pierce which maybe means I am a little biteen?


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  • #22
    Pwindedd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,301 ✭✭✭Pwindedd


    Arthur Beesley wrote: »
    What age was he?

    17or 18 I think. They'd just started the Spectres.

    Edit: Just checked he's 6 months older than my mum. So 16-17


  • #23
    Jawgap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,297 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    py2006 wrote: »
    Apparently I've very distantly related to Eamon Dunphy!

    Are you related to anybody we'd know
    either alive today or somebody we would know of from the past?

    Think your confusing fame with notoriety :D


  • #24
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    An uncle of mine is a TD in government.


  • #25
    coats
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 108 ✭✭coats


    My mams granny and George Harrisons granny were sisters


  • #26
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    Micky Dolenz wrote: »
    An uncle of mine is a TD in government.

    No potholes in your manor so.. :D


  • #27
    dark crystal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    We're related to The Kennedys on my maternal grandmother's side.


  • #28
    Thespoofer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭Thespoofer


    Denis Irwin. Never met him though.


  • #29
    Bassfish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 911 ✭✭✭Bassfish


    My grandmother's aunt (my great grand aunt) was John Lennon's grandmother.


  • #30
    fearrua
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 226 ✭✭fearrua


    My brother used to go out with Aidan Gillen's niece but that's it really...


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  • #31
    Thespoofer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭Thespoofer


    Denis Irwin. Never met him though.


  • #32
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Thespoofer wrote: »
    Denis Irwin. Never met him though.
    Thespoofer wrote: »
    Denis Irwin. Never met him though.

    You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel.


  • #33
    pappyodaniel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,803 ✭✭✭pappyodaniel


    My sister is married to Michael D Higgins nephew.


  • #34
    Red Kev
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,793 ✭✭✭Red Kev


    coats wrote: »
    My mams granny and George Harrisons granny were sisters


    She is his second cousin, you're third cousins with his kids. Christ, that's something special. Harrison was the best Beatle for me by a long way. :)


    For me I've a couple of TD's on my mothers side going back to the 50's and 60's, nothing special.

    My Granny was very close friends with a lot of the major anti-Treaty crowd in the War of Independence, even when I was a kid in the 70's there were always a load of them rambling in her house, and staying for a few days there. Not related to them but they were living history all the same.


  • #35
    Adamantium
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭Adamantium


    I'm a third cousin of Tommy Gorman, RTE news reporter.

    My mum is related somehow to the priest, 4th cousin hurt "messing with the bra strip"

    at 0.40

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beN7FftWNCM


  • #36
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Micky Dolenz wrote: »
    An uncle of mine is a TD in government.

    Is it Luke? :P

    Myself, I'm a direct descendant of Brain Boru :)


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  • #37
    pow wow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,288 ✭✭✭pow wow


    David Haye is a cousin.


  • #38
    anto9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 883 ✭✭✭anto9


    Keep it quiet ,but Bishop Eamon Casey is my Daddy .


  • #39
    fermanagh_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 810 ✭✭✭fermanagh_man


    My dogs famous around the town for fathering a lot of pups


  • #40
    Arthur Beesley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Arthur Beesley


    pappyodaniel wrote: »
    My sister is married to Michael D Higgins nephew.

    Is he a Hobbit also?


  • #41
    Dave H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 196 ✭✭Dave H


    Distant cousins with Gary Kelly and Ian Harte. Never met them though.


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  • #42
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Specialun wrote: »
    Will i am is my brother from a different brother

    I'm his Irish cousin L.I.AM.


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