Bittere family gorge in the heart of the Emerald Isle Roots of Ed Sheeran: how the beloved grandparents of Suffolk-born singer were avoided by loved ones, while he was the police return for ‘culturally identified’ as Irish

The devastating family -gorge in the heart of Ed Sheeran‘s roots are revealed after he has caused a recoil because he claims that he’ culturally identifies’ as Irish on the Louis Theroux’s podcast.

While the singer, 34, was born in Halifax, Yorkshire and famous in Suffolk, he has many relatives in Ireland and lovingly remember Youth holidays spent there.

His father John’s family comes out BelfastAnd one of the eight brothers and sisters was born from Nancy Mulligan and William Sheeran.

While Nancy was a Catholic of the Republic of IrelandHer husband was a Protestant of Noord -IarlandSo when they fell in love during the Second World War It caused enormous ructies on both sides of the family.

It was this bitter fall out in Ed’s paternal origin that inspired his 2017 number Nancy Mulligan, named after his grandmother.

The Folktrack tells the story that his grandparents are avoided because they get married outside their religions.

Reflect on romance said Ed: ‘They were engaged and nobody showed up at their wedding. He stole all the golden teeth in his dental surgery and melted them in a wedding ring, and they wore borrowed clothes to get married.

“And just this kind of Romeo and Juliet romanticism, which is the most romantic.”

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Despite the couple, who met in London during the Second World War before they returned to their native Ireland years later, and were not supported by their families, they started their own and welcomed no fewer than eight children during their almost 70-year-old marriage.

In addition to Ed’s father John, they shared Jim, Bill, Peter, Chris, Maryanne, Bridget and the late Sally as well as 23 grandchildren, with Ed who spent many holidays with his grandparents in County Wexford.

William died in 2013, while Nancy died in 2023 at the age of 98, but Ed was forced to miss her funeral because of his Current and highly published copyright process in New York – that he eventually won.

At the service, Ed’s father said that the singer was ‘so upset’ to miss the funeral of his beloved grandmother, but he must ‘defend’ his integrity against the pond.

He then turned to the love story ‘Romeo and Juliet’ to which it was referred to Ed’s song: ‘Mama with Dad, a dental student, with a man’ home party of a man ‘.

“Friendship changed to love, but the Presbyterian side of the North Ireland of Dad’s family did their utmost to end the relationship.”

‘Their wedding was attended by only one family member – Mama’s twin sister Peggy. They lived above that dental surgery in South Londs with a growing family. Eventually five boys and three girls. Mama joked us that she originally wanted 11 children so that she could feel the football or cricket team. ‘

When Ed’s song was released by Romantiek released in 2017, a sweet video of his grandmother was created who first listened to it.

The then 92-year-old told RTE News: ‘I will never regard him as famous, I have to say. He is exactly the same as he is always when he visits.

“And it is very rare because he is always working and if you think he worked from the age of 14, you should feel sorry for him, you know he is so tired, but he thought it was great.”

After Nancy’s Death Ed, Ed revealed the loss that inspired the Song Supermarket Flowers on his album Divide.

He said on social media: ‘When my grandmother died, I wrote a song called Supermarket Flowers about the situation. The fresh texts are about packing her room in that hospital. The care she received was incredible; The people who worked so beautiful, compassionate, funny and caring.

‘Me and my family came very close to the nurses who worked there and my mother still has contact with them. I just wanted to pay tribute to my grandmother, she was the musical in my family. Hopefully I will continue to my children ‘.

Open on his heritage about the latest episode of Louis Theroux’s podcastEd explained: ‘I classify my culture as Irish. I think I grew up that.

“My father’s family is … he has seven brothers and sisters. We would spend all our vacation in Ireland.

‘My first musical experiences were in Ireland, I grew up with traditional music in the house. So I identify culturally as Irish, but I was clearly born and raised in Britain. ‘

The hit maker of Galway Girl further said that he was ‘really proud’ in his Irish cultural roots, and that he did not feel that he had to be ‘just British’ because it was ‘How You Feel’.

He said: ‘I don’t think about it, but I feel that my culture is something that I am really proud of and grew up and want to express.

‘And I feel that only because I was born in Britain, it does not necessarily mean that I have to be used to [British]There are many people I know who are half of these or are.

“I don’t think there are rules for it. It should be how you feel and how you grew up and what you lean on. ‘

And when asked if he gets ‘a lot of love’ in Ireland, the charts of the charts also praised the country as ‘my second home’.

He said: ‘I would say it is actually my second home, musically. I would say that Ireland is the place where I am the most successful musically. ‘

“I come from an Irish family, spent most of my childhood summer and birthdays and Christmas in Ireland to listen to traditional music bands,” Ed said earlier in an interview.

However, Ed’s comments led to a recoil when Fans to X, previously known as Twitter, went back to strike back to his claims that he was Irish because they claimed that he was ‘like’.

They wrote: “I only identify means to pretend”; “Is Ed Sheeran eligible to start for the Irish national football team?”; “They can have him”;

“It’s not where you were born. It is your bloodline that determines what you are. Cliff Richard was born in India. Is he Indian? You can be born anywhere in the world. That is not automatically part of that culture. “;

“While he is from the Irish diaspora, he is English”; “Why can’t he just identify himself as himself”; “That Galway must have spun his head all around”;

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‘His song Galway Girl must be there with the worst songs of all time … Absolutely waste with all the usual Irish clichés … The only thing he missed in the lyrics screamed’ Up the Ra ‘.. Seems a nice boy but terrible music’.

But others understood his position when they argued: “Well, his da is Irish, so he is perfectly entitled to.”

‘You can still be born and raised in England for a while and still identify culturally as Irish. It is not unprecedented ‘;

“He has carrots. There is nothing wrong with identifying your heritage. He also looks like us. ‘