Oscar award winning Daniel Day-Lewis feels most at home in his beloved Wicklow

Stevenstar- Daniel has dual citizenship due to the fact that his father was Irish born- so yes he is English but he is also Irish, like me-born in the UK but of Irish parents, so I hold both, but consider myself Irish as I was brought up here in Ireland. So I guess Daniel has he right to call himself Irish too due to his Irish born Dad and the fact that he spent a lot of time here as a kid and has lived here for many years now! Regardgon your comment on Americans calling themselves Irish- you have to understand that it's a turn of phrase used by Americans to explain their origins! They will say they are Irish or German or Swedish or whatever- by this they are actually referring to their ancestry.

Steven-Star, Americans are totally unaware that Britain has 33% of the gross Economy of America, we are a small island but in shrewdness, good judgment and quality of our decision making we beat them hands down. Here's a true story: In 1979 the US and British Militiary held a war game, US troops were told that an enemy was going to attack them within the next 7 days and they had to respond and win the mock battle. Most US troops guessed 'who the enemy would be - the Brits'. This was a total war with pretend-nukes. Here's the best part all our aircraft had to take a timed photo of the target zone, anyway three of our aircraft radioed in to Edwards Air Force Base California asking for permission to land, they were asked by the control tower "Where are you" the reply was "directly above you and we've just wiped you out'. This happened with all our targets including the giant Andrews Air Force Base, MD. The result was so devastating to the US military that they went out and spent $6 billion dollars on a new radr system upgrade. I do not know how this surprise attack was so successful, but it sure did scare a lot of US Generals.

DANIEL DAY LEWIS IS ACTUALLY BORN IN ENGLAND SO HIS ENGLISH ALTHOUGH HE HOLDS A UK AND IRISH PASSPORT BUT HIS STILL ENGLISH UNFORTUNATELY THATS HOW IT WORKS FOR US OVER HERE IN EUROPE.. ENGLISH IRISH SCOTTISH WELSH WE'RE ON BIG HAPPY FAMILY REALLY...I JUST WISH AMERICANS WHO WERE BORN IN AMERICA WOULD ACCEPT THEIR AMERICAN AND NOT IRISH JUST BECAUSE SOME GREAT AUNTY MARY LEFT IRELAND A 1100 YEARS AGO... OK THAT MAY BE OK FOR YOU.. BUT YOU'LL ALWAYS BE AMERICAN IN OUR EYES !! ;)

I do consider this man in the category of the greatest. I also love the fact that his wife, the daughter of Arthur Miller, reminded me of Norma Shearer when I saw her at the Awards Ceremony! So elegant and confidant enough to wear her glasses! Meryl Streep also wears her glasses in public; my kind of women. It does seem to follow the rule: the shyer the person, the better the actor! I know: I'm shy!

Gangs of New York was a great movie, but the rest of the story is if the Irish gangs could have continued the riots a little longer forcing the New York militia to have to leave Gettysburg to end the riots, The White House might be in Alabama today and not Washington DC

"Greatest actor in the world"? Please! Adulation is fine but best male actor in 2013 at the Academy Awards is surely enough praise. It's an American event that does little to recognize foreign films and actors.

odd guy, like most genius types... the phrase "push bike" in this article confused me, so I googled it. just another name for bicycle, rather oldfashined, british/irish form...

I planned to simply praise Daniel Day-Lewis for being the first male actor to win three Oscars. Now I feel compelled to defend "Gangs of New York." As someone who is far from a scholar, but who has a special interest in the American Civil War, I found the film entertaining and as historically accurate as a fictional work ever is. As one sensitive to anti-Irish bias, I did not see that in this film, which I have watched three times.

"Gangs of New York" is a great film. And it's historically accurate. Of course, DDL is just a flop or two a way from being demoted from Honored Citizen to "blow-in."

It's a disgrace that Lewis lent his name to "Gangs of New York" an egregious film that insulted New York's Irish.