Liam Gallagher
Gallagher in 2008, photo by Prphotos.com
Birth Name: William John Gallagher
Place of Birth: Manchester, Lancashire, England, U.K.
Date of Birth: 21 September, 1972
Ethnicity: Irish
Liam Gallagher is a British singer and songwriter. He was lead singer and frontman of rock band Oasis. He is the younger brother of musician Noel Gallagher, who was also a member of the band. Liam was also a member of rock band Beady Eye, and has released music solo.
His mother, Margaret “Peggy” (Sweeney), is from Charlestown, Co. Mayo, and his father, Tommy Gallagher, is from Duleek, Co. Meath, both in Ireland.
Liam has a daughter with singer and songwriter Lisa Moorish; a son with his former wife, actress, singer, and model Patsy Kensit; a son with his former wife, Canadian singer, songwriter, and actress Nicole Appleton, and a daughter with journalist Liza Ghorbani.
Liam’s patrilineal ancestry can be traced back to his third great-grandfather, John Gallagher.
Liam’s paternal grandfather was William Gallagher (the son of Thomas Gallagher and Mary Anne Lee). William was born in Abbeyland, Duleek, County Meath. Thomas was the son of John Gallagher and Catherine Fegan. Mary Anne was the daughter of William Lee and Mary Anne Murray.
Liam’s maternal grandfather was surnamed Sweeney.
Liam’s maternal grandmother was named Margaret “Peggy” O’Brien.
Sources: http://www.herald.ie
Genealogy of Liam Gallagher (focusing on his father’s side) – https://www.geni.com
Information about Liam’s maternal grandmother, Margaret “Peggy” Sweeney – https://www.irishtimes.com
If English people are born in England too Irish that doesnt make them Irish they are English because they are born in England it doesnt make them Irish if Irish people are born in Ireland too English parents it doesnt make them English they are Irish because they were born in Ireland.
Being English means belonging to a specific ethnic group that lives on in the shires and small towns of a place called England Gallagher is ethnically Irish, but nominally British. He is certainly not English.
What is it with the different strains of British Isles nationalism on this site? Where you claim certain celebrities are or are not descended from your nation, claim your own nation have the fairest (apparently most superior) features, and downgrade the other nations and call them “dark” (as if that would be bad in any way).
You guys seem to think that there really is a major genetic difference between the British Isles populations. The whole thing is baffling to me. That this feud exists in another way than jokingly is nothing but childish.
It is nothing to do with nationalism. There are major ethnic differences between the real English population in the shires, when compared to cities like a London and Manchester, who have had waves of immigrants over the centuries, especially Irish, and are ethnically different. The US ancestry sites are a joke. They even group German and French together, as well as British Isles ! I’m surprised Donald Duck isn’t thrown into the mix as well.
I’m not talking about ethnic differences between city and countryside in England, but about the phenomenon where you guys upplay a largely made-up genetic difference between the British Isles populations. Sometimes it takes the form of claiming your own group has the lightest features or another group is darker on average. Sometimes you say a certain celebrity can’t be fully [insert ethnic group here]. I didn’t know this kind of obsession still existed, and for such a small part of the world as Britain and Ireland…
His mother was Sweeney which was a Scottish clan which settled in Donegal though the clan traces its routes to Flaithbertach Ua Néill High King of Ireland from Ulster
thats right his mom name is Peggy Sweeney but it use to be an Irish name
Irish by way of Scot’s Gallowglass.
http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Sweeney
He is 100% Irish he has no English Scottish and Welsh in him which is very rare in England it’s very common in England Wales and maybe even Ireland and Scotland and even in America it’s very common in England Wales America maybe Scotland and Ireland too have 4 ancestries English Irish Scottish and Welsh if English people have all 4 ancestries English Irish Scottish and Welsh that’s makes them a typical British mongrel.
@Andrew I’m of Irish descent myself but I’m not pure Irish I’m mixed with English Scottish and Welsh which is very common in England and Wales maybe even Scotland and Ireland even America but I’m not 100% White I’m half Filipino.
I thought he is half English half Irish he can’t be just pure Irish
fully Catholic Irish. Once Noel Gallagher said the only pure English person he knew was Paul Weller
How many English people are 100% Irish.
a lot between Manchester and Liverpool
Very difficult to be 100% anything. Most Irish people would have some ancestry from outside Ireland if they research their family tree back. Even looking at surnames many have origin outside Ireland. The name Gallagher for example goes back to Scottish Gallowglass. I’ve found some Scots in my family tree myself going back 200 years.
Just did a bit more research on the name Gallagher and it does appear to have an Irish origin.
The name Gallagher in old Irish is Ghallchobhar and the Clann O’Gallchobhair is considered the most senior and loyal sept of the Cenel Chonaill (kindred of Conal), or King Conal Ghulban. He was a son of Niall Noigiallach (of the Nine Hostages) and his lands became known as the Tir Chonaill (Land of Conal) which are now roughly County Donegal and Innis Owen.
The surname means, literally, “foreign help” from the Irish words Gall (foreigner, stranger) and cabhair (help, aid, succor).
Though the name does not appear in the annals until about the mid 12th century, Fr. Walsh and others consider it to go back to about the time the Vikings began to raid the coasts of Ireland.
Fr. Walsh considers the name to be indicative of a Norseman who aligned with the northern Ui Niell to combat the Danish raids. The Norse were known as the fine gall (“fair foreigners”) and the Danes the dub gall (dark or black foreigners).
The most likely senario is that a Norseman married one of the daughters of one of the early O’Donnell chiefs, and hence the name “Gallcobhar” or “foreign help.”
http://ogallchobhair.org/History
http://www.gallagherclan.org/