Graham Norton Ponders His Irish Roots | Who Do You Think You Are
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Graham Norton - or Graham William Walker, as he was born - left Ireland when he was young and hasn't looked back - until now. He always felt out of place, growing up in a small Protestant family in the predominantly Catholic south of Ireland. But he now admits that he feels drawn to the country, and wonders if his discoveries might change his view of Ireland. There is only one way to find out.
Graham begins his journey on the trail of his great grandmother, Mary. On her daughter's birth certificate, she is listed as Mary Reynolds, formerly Dooey. But a handwritten document in his mother's possession tells Graham that there was some confusion over her name, and that she was also known as Mary Logan. There is a mystery here. Was there something to hide?
Graham tracks down Mary's marriage certificate of 1895, where she is listed as Mary Logan. No father's name is provided, suggesting that Mary was illegitimate. From baptism records of Mary's children, Graham realises that she must have been eight months' pregnant at the time of her wedding - and recognises the shame that this held in her society. Graham also locates Mary's own baptism record, where she is Mary Jane Logan. So where does Dooey come from? The answer is nestled in the baptism records of one of Mary's siblings, where the father was listed as Fred Dooey, but the name has been scratched out. It is very likely that Fred Dooey was Mary's father, but was not married to her mother when the children were born. Thus Graham has solved the mystery of the Dooey name, and recognises how unusual it was for Mary's mother to have produced four children out of wedlock - and to remain living in the same community throughout. Her 'misdemeanours' must therefore have been accepted, and Graham is pleased to see it.
Graham then turns his attention to his southern Irish Protestant roots, hoping to discover how far back they go. His paternal grandfather, George Walker, was sexton of the Protestant church in Carnew. Land valuation records reveal that George's father was William (and his grandfather Joseph) and was a tenant of the Fitzwilliam Estate - in other words, he was linked to English Protestant planters. Joseph was a pillar of the Protestant community - vestry minutes at Carnew show that he was a churchwarden, which meant that he had the right to levy taxes from Protestants and Catholics alike for the upkeep of the Protestant Church of Ireland.
Still hot on the trail, Graham uses parish records and the Fitzwilliam estate papers to push the family back another three generations, including Thomas, who lived in Carnew through the Irish Rebellion of 1798, when the town was a royalist stronghold, and Carnew Castle the scene of a famous massacre of Catholics. The records show that a certain John Walker, almost certainly a relation, was shot and piked whilst fighting for the royalist cause.
But Graham has still more to discover. With the help of the Fitzwilliam Estate Papers, Hearth Tax records and baptism registers, he is able to trace his first ancestor who went from Yorkshire to Ireland - in about 1713.
And so, although surprised to be a Yorkshireman, Graham declares that he is comforted that his family have resided in Ireland for so many generations and pleased to be rooted so deeply in history.
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I love Graham. He’s wonderful, just so wonderful.
The handwriting on the paperwork is of another age, beautiful.
His Irish roots! He is Irish.
so are his roots
His family have been here for a few hundred years
I enjoy this program and admire Graham Norton. When I learned the two came together I had to watch. Well done all around. Graham, I hope you keep interviewing people--hope to keep seeing you on screens in America. xoxo
When Graham's mum said, "Enough" I laughed ... Sounded just like my gran and mother telling us to stop our silliness.
The mom. "Enough " to her grown-up son..😂 love her..reminds me of my mom..
Such an interesting show
I’m so happy to hear that Reynolds is an Irish name, that’s my mums maiden name. ❤
This is like my background on my Dad's side my Grandad was from County Cavan (Cootehill) they all came over in the mid 40's - early 50's they were all brought up Catholic but in order to marry my Nan Grandad had to reuonce his Catholic beliefs as Nan and her family were brought up Church of England (Grandad loved the bones of my Nan) I'd love to trace back his grandparents and see how long the McGahan's have been in Ireland x
Lol took the soup basically no wonder why he left its a irish surname so its been there since its existed mate.
Love is love
5:02 He almost drove right into the house.. 😅
Gracie T Oh my Lord! Somehow I missed that the first time I watched it. Then I read your comment and watched it again and my heart almost leapt in my throat!
I would like to know if there are any plans to issue series 12, 14 and 16 on DVD, if only because I would like to complete my collection.
Ireland's loss is the world's gain. Graham Norton is a delightful human.
My mother grew up in the same place his mother lives (Bandon, County Cork). That must mean she lives close to Skibbereen.
OMG Graham's mom sitting on the car - she looks just like Steven Fry :D
Best face discovery in an old family photo lolol
Interesting! Neat to see some facts until I'm able to purchase your book(s). I'm so sorry that you had to park in a certain place and that you had to watch how you spoke - what a thing to carry inside! Thanks for sharing this, Graham.
Omg thank you!!!
I'm thinking the Catholic animus toward Protestants stemmed from the long-ago loyalty to the crown that his ancestors held. This long ago, they still resent.
It's great, 👌
The Logan Dooley thing could have been a short marriage when she was younger, death, and Return to maiden name. I see that occasionally in my own tree climbing efforts,
Hi pretty lady. How are you doing today???
Love Graham Norton! ❤️
love you Graham
Awwww, love you ❤️
Don't feel bad, Graham. My relatives had to leave Ireland 100-130 years ago for being poor Catholics.
Whataboutism pure and simple
@SunnyDaze-uq8edHow?
My family were in Wicklow in 1836 🙂
Wi-fi poor back then.
Graham's right, his mother is hilarious 😅😅
Really funny my family comes from Ahogahill too they were mostly farmers and like yourself being fromN.Ireland we never knew what to call ourselves like u we felt like second class Irish! In Germany where I live now they never get to grips with the whole British Nornirish thing so to them I’m just Irish ☘️
The way it should be
@@MasculinityMindset yes definitely 👍🥰
yes
Graham looks like my Shaffer relatives, who were originally from Bremen, Germany…the original spelling was Shäffer.
Young Graham looks a bit like Matt Damon, doesn't he.
I’ve felt like that, being a Protestant growing up in Derry N.Ireland. I wasn’t really Irish.
Hi, I was born in Derry, in a mixed marriage family
Well if you are from Derry and you are Protestant you can be British.
@@j.p.dunleavy1769 Imagine a mixed marriage JP and the headache that caused my family
You don't call it Londonderry so you are Irish all the way!
@@j.p.dunleavy1769 You can be both
I wouldn't get too carried away by claims of outsider status. Protestants didn't do so bad in post 1922 Ireland - the highest positions in the Civil Service, Trinity College, the Judiciary. Douglas Hyde, Erskine Childers both protestants, elected presidents of Ireland. The most suffering outsiders were socialists/communists, all the greatest literary persons of 20thC Ireland, LGBT people, unmarried mothers, Travellers...life was horrific.
I don't think Protestants were treated as badly as unmarrried mothers, LGBT people or Travellers but there is no denying we were not treated as being Irish by a lot of people. My father was asked one day by a fella who knew he was Protestant if he'd be supporting the England Football Team for the world cup. My Dad was floored by that. His family have lived in the same part of Ireland for the last 400 years. I was asked much the same when I was in school in the early 2000's.
@@tarafarrell46 wuzzums
@@tarafarrell46 Your father asked if he's supporting English Team - unforgivable, this is the worst. Did he ever recover from the PTSD that surely ensued?
@Nicky L Give us a break for heaven's sake - likely no sector of Irish society had it easier than Protestants, think what was done to unmarried pregnant mothers, people with developmental problems, psychiatric problems, nearly ever major writer of 20thC Ireland sanctioned, censored, Dev doing horrible mistreatment of IRA suspects WWII - summary executions, horror shows...'some of that attitude hanging about' - yeah! that's Srebenicha. Poor Prods! Spare a thought for how Catholics in Northern Ireland were treated or the Irish in Britain - the scale of this BS is stratospheric.
It’s not an either or. Irish Protestants are allowed tell their unique story too
I use my maiden & married names. A lot of women in US put a - hyphen between them. Could be are imitating the Hispanic tradition of keeping maiden name but hyphenated after the married name. When a girl gets married the paternal name is put after the the hyphen and her maternal name is dropped.
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The one blood I do know I have is Irish the other I don't positively know but I like Irish
I thought Irish people didn't say "Southern Ireland?"
Did he say "chicken-sexer"? 👀
This just proves that religious bigotry existed in Ireland (modern day Republic) before partition. Many Protestants in the south were treated shockingly by their Catholic neighbours and the emergence of the IRA only heightened that.
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He didn't go back to see his mother in all those years? Shame on him.
He lives in Ireland near his mother when his show is on break.
Not at all, you see him in Cork airport all the time. He's often in Cork.
Shame on you for judging without any knowledge -.-
He's a brown helmet species
Shame on you.