De Niro reveals his Irish blood - Oct 04, 2007
Robert de Niro wants to research about his Irish ancestors because he knows a little about them. The veteran actor plans to study in depth his family roots in Ireland. "I'm trying to do that now, as a matter of fact. I'm going to do that soon," he told Contactmusic. A nostalgic De Niro, recalled his journey to the Gaelic land in 1962 at his 19-years-old, “I hitchhiked from Dublin to Galway and took the ferry out to the Aran Islands, and then I went down through the south." "People gave me blankets for sleeping outside and I had breakfast with them in the morning. They were very friendly," he concluded.
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