That's the usual but on Sky News last night I noticed he was referred to as "Irish actor Peter O'Toole". Don't know where he was born - possibly in Wales. If he wins I wonder will be still be Irish.Originally Posted by ClubMan
I see Peter O'Toole was included in the Beeb's list of British Oscar nominees tonight
Although O'Toole has previously given his birthplace as Connemara, County Galway, he has himself suggested that this may not be accurate in the first volume of his memoirs, Loitering with Intent, saying that this was the "family version", and that he may have been born in either Kerry, Dublin, or, perhaps, Leeds, England. To avoid such complications for his children, he has ensured that both his daughter Kate and son Lorcan were born in Dublin. Elder daughter Patricia was born in England, a mistake which O'Toole regretted, famously saying: "Pat was born in Britain, the poor thing."
In her own memoir, Public Places, his former wife Siân Phillips says, "...he may or may not have been born there, but he is a true son of Connemara." His father, Patrick Joseph O'Toole was an Irish bookmaker and his mother, Constance Jane Eliot (née Ferguson), was a Scottish born nurse.
Irish.
I notice too on the TV channels from across the water, when the weather is on, they always exclude mentioning the weather here even when the map of the British Isles (that's due for a change of name I think) is shown.
-- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of WellingtonBecause a man is born in a stable that does not make him a horse.
"I confess that the annual recurring starvation in Ireland for a period, differing,
according to goodness or badness of the season, from one week to three months,
gives me more uneasiness than any other evil existing in the United Kingdom....
Now, when this misfortune occurs, there is no relief or mitigation except a
recourse to public money. The proprietors of the country, those who ought to
think for the people, to forsee this misfortune, and to provide beforehand a
remedy for it, are amusing themselves in the clubs of London, in Cheltenham or
Bath, or on the continent, and the Government are made responsible for the evil,
and they must find the remedy for it where they can - anywhere excepting in the
pockets of the Irish gentlemen. Then, if they give public money to provide a
remedy for this distress, it is applied to all purposes excepting the one for
which it is given, and most particularly to that one, the payment of the arrears
of an exorbitant rent." -- Duke of Wellington, 1830
I suppose the question is why should they be obliged to give the weather for the Republic? What European country shows its neighbour's weather? The reason I presume why they show the 'British Isles' is that they need to do so in order to show the weather for NI.
Just my opinion!
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