The Irish heritage of Paul McCartney

The McCartneys, like many Liverpool familes, descended from Irish immigrants

MEGHAN SWEENEY,

IrishCentral.com Staff Writer

Published Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 11:15 AM

Updated Thursday, July 23, 2009, 5:47 PM

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The legendary Paul McCartney

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The country of Ireland itself has also played a significant role in McCartney’s life.

After Paul’s first wife Linda died from breast cancer in 1998, he met former model Heather Mills, and married her in an Irish castle in a $3.2 million wedding in 2002.

Elton John, Eric Clapton, President Clinton and fellow Beatle Ringo Starr were just several of the stars who witnessed McCartney and Mills exchange vows inside Ireland’s 17^th century-built Castle Leslie in Glaslough, County Monaghan, Ireland, the county from which his mother’s family descended.

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kickstar | Dec 11, 2009, 09:45 AM EST

Well fair play to you Meghan Sweeney for a great story from the great man himself, Always had an inkling there was a lot of Irishness about the Beatles them being from Liverpool and that.

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