Irish Jeans

A few years ago i read No One Here Gets Out Alive, the first biography to be written about Jim Morrison after his death. Somewhere in that book (i cant remember which part now) i found out that Jim had a bit of Irish blood in him! All the years i had been listening to the Doors and i never knew he had any Irish ancestors, How cool is that!? Well after that i began noticing a lot of other people with Irish ancestry in some of the things i was reading, so many that i had to start writing down the names in an email so i could keep track of them.

I thought since today is St. Patrick’s day, it would be a good time to get this list out of my drafts folder and unleash it upon the internets. Posting it on any other day would be a bit too ‘look-at-us-Irish-we-are-great’ and patriotic for my liking but i think its allowed to boast just a bit today!

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So without further ado, in no particular order, a list of 25 people with Irish genes who have been nothing short of spectacular fair play to them.

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David Bowie: English Musician/Actor (Irish Mother)

Jeff Buckley: American Singer-Songwriter/Guitarist (Jeff’s grandfather,Tim Buckley Senior, was the descendant of a hedge master from Cork)

Jimi Hendrix: Considered to be one of the Greatest/Most influential guitarists (Irish Grandfather)

George Freeth: The Father of Modern Surfing (Irish Father)

George Carlin: American Comedian/Social Critic

Jim Morrison: Poet/Lead Singer with The Doors (Irish and Scottish Descent)

Kurt Cobain: Singer/Guitarist in Nirvana (Traced to Tyrone)

Morrissey: Singer in the Smiths (Parents were Irish)

James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett: Metallica (Kirk: Irish Father)

Alfred Hitcock: Filmmaker/Producer (Irish Mother)

Marshall McLuhan: Canadian Scholar/Pop Philosopher/Media guru. Predicted the internet long before it happened (Irish-Scottish Decent)

John Lennon: The Beatles (Irish Grandparents, from Tyrone or Dublin)

Paul McCartney: The Beatles (Irish Grandparents)

George Harrison: The Beatles (check it out for yourself here)

Elvis Costello: English Singer-Songwriter

Terence McKenna: Writer/Ethnobotanist/Philosopher/Psychonaut (Irish Grandparents, or else great grandparents) (He definitely had the gift of the gab anyway)

Timothy Leary: Psychologist/Writer (On his Father’s side)

Chris Cornell: American singer, Audioslave (On his Father’s side)

Billy the Kid: American outlaw (Irish Mother)

Jimmy Car: Comedian, and another person with the gift of the gab (Parents from Limerick)

Henry Ford: Founder of Ford Car Company (Father from Cork)

Bill Haley: American Musician, known for the“Rock around the clock” song

Billy Corgan: if he wants to be… its his birthday today, Happy Birthday Billy!

Others: Liam and Noel Gallagher.

Some of you reading this might know half of these already but for me i only found out some of these in the last year so hopefully there might be at least one or two in there that you didnt know.

If there is some good ones that i missed feel free to leave their names in the comments section below

(via: elektricforest)