Sarah Jessica Parker, who has a family vacation home with her husband Matthew Broderick in Co Donegal, has revealed that she and her family won't be pursuing Irish citizenship.
Parker recently spoke about Irish citizenship with the Sunday Independent while discussing the latest series of "And Just Like That," which features a surprise guest appearance from Rosie O'Donnell, who relocated to Ireland from the US earlier this year.
“We’re (she and O’Donnell) not in the same position," Parker told the Sunday Independent.
"Neither myself nor my husband has a relative that would allow permanent residency.
“We do feel enormously privileged to be able to visit the country as much as possible, however, which of late has just worked out – our kids’ school schedule and our own work schedule has allowed us to be in Ireland a lot.
"So we’ve given up on the idea of being able to call ourselves Irish citizens. But it doesn’t matter because it doesn’t affect our love of the country and our time spent there.”
Parker, her husband Matthew Broderick, and their children are frequent visitors to Ireland, where they have a holiday home in Co Donegal, which Broderick inherited from his parents.
A few years back, Broderick told the Irish Voice, sister publication to IrishCentral, about his Irish homestead: “You know the landscape, the hiking but it's also the people there that I grew up knowing.
"Real farmers who worked the hay in the summer and milked cows. I really, really got to know my neighbors and that just doesn't happen in the same way here in the US.
"We just really felt welcomed there [in Donegal]. It's another culture, a wonderful place."
Parker is never shy about heaping praise on Ireland during her and her family's many visits there.
"Always hard to leave," she said in a social media post after spending Christmas 2022 in Ireland.
"But you sent us off nice."
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In another gushing post after a summer stay in 2023, Parker again paid homage to her beloved Ireland, exalting her favorite brands and the landscape.
"Photos really. They never quite capture it," she wrote on the post shared with her millions of followers.
"And there is always more. And you should have SEEN it."
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In May 2024, Parker and Broderick received the Ireland Funds Performing Arts Award in honor of their "passionate support of Irish arts and culture."
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