Ed Sheeran reveals that he ‘culturally identifies as Irish’ despite being born and raised in England and describes Ireland as his ‘second home’

Ed Sheeran has revealed that he identifies ‘culturally as Irish’, even though he was born and raised in England, because he was heavily influenced by his time on the island.

While the singer-songwriter, 34, was raised in Suffolk, his father John is coming BelfastWhich means that he spent a large part of his childhood in Ireland.

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. ‘

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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. ‘

However, Ed’s comments led to a recoil when fans to X, formerly known as Twitter, went back to refund to his claims that he is Irish.

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

“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 has to be upstairs with the worst songs of all time … Absolute 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”.

Elsewhere in the podcast, ED – that Dad is from daughters Lyra, four, and Jupiter, two, with his wife Cherry Seaborn – revealed that he engaged 24 -hour security for himself and his family in the midst of security problems about ‘dangerous people’.

Speaking of life in the spotlight, he revealed that there had been an attempted burglary in his vast Suffolk house, called Sheeranville, and he brought in 24-hour security.

The musician said: ‘I think there is a different kind of normal that our company is. I have security on my house 24 hours a day. I have security with my children.

“I have security with me. I have security with my wife, just because there have been a few strange things that happened over the years. ‘

Louis seemed shocked to which Ed added: ‘So that you know that there are many dangerous people. We have a burglary attempt as you know.

‘That is normal in my industry. That is a bit like an underlying thing that nobody really talks about, but that is a kind of part of the audience. ‘

But thoughtful about the positives of his success, the perfect star lifted the lid on his very famous friends, ranging from Elton John and Dave to Stormzy.

He remembered how he once gave Stormzy a lift to the pub after buying his first car, a mini, indicating: “He didn’t fit in the back.”

He continued to describe his friend: ‘He seems like he would be pretty shy, but I don’t think he’s when you get to know him. His humor is very similar to mine. ‘

While talking about colleague -British rapper Dave, he stumbled: “He has done a lot of production on the new album, because, apart from a brilliant copywriter, he is also an incredible producer and writer.”

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The star revealed: ‘He loves comic books, Marvel films and video games. I sent him a Nintendo 64 with Goldeneye on it because he had never played it. ‘

Ed also remembered how Van Morrison once woke him up at six in the morning after a Boozy night out with golfer Rory McIlroy.

He said: ‘I did a performance in Belfast and my grandmother had come to the performance and she loves golf. Rory had come down and she loved being around him. We kept talking to him super late and I would say we were going to bed at 4 o’clock.

“Around 6 am, I received a phone call on my hotel telephone from the hotel -” Mr. Morrison’s in the lobby, he wants to have breakfast with you “. I was half asleep and half drunk. So I just hung up and I had something like: “I have no idea who Mr. Morrison is”.

“Then I got another phone call and they said,” Sorry, Van Morrison is inside “. I ran down and there he waited for me and we had breakfast, which is really surreal. ‘