{"id":96883,"date":"2013-04-12T23:59:12","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T23:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2013\/04\/12\/tom-cruises-ancestors-controlled-dublin\/"},"modified":"2013-04-12T23:59:12","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T23:59:12","slug":"tom-cruises-ancestors-controlled-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2013\/04\/12\/tom-cruises-ancestors-controlled-dublin\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise\u2019s ancestors controlled Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tom Cruise has Irish ancestors who owned a majority of Dublin. The action star was presented with a certificate of Irish roots by the country\u2019s Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Eamon Gilmore earlier this month and learnt his relatives can be traced back to the 9th century after two female fans researched his family lineage as a gift to their idol.<\/div>\n
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Speaking on \u2018Jimmy Kimmel Live!\u2019 on Thursday (11.04.13), Tom, 50, exclaimed: \u201cI had no idea it went back that far.\u201d<\/div>\n
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He revealed his family once owned a town called Hollywood in County Wicklow and one of his elders was known as a \u201cfamine hero\u201d when they returned to Ireland from New York to save people from being evicted from their homes. They also had a lot of control over the capital city of Ireland.<\/div>\n
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During his trip to Ireland Tom found it \u201cincredible\u201d to find out more about his ancestors and embraced his Irish side by undertaking a master class in pint pouring at the world famous Guinness Storehouse in the capital.<\/div>\n
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Speaking at the time, he said: \u201cTo learn about the history of my family \u2013 it was incredible\u201d.<\/div>\n
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\u201cI knew I was Irish but I had no idea where it went and the depth of it. It\u2019s a great honour for me and for my whole family \u2013 I can\u2019t wait to bring it back to them and enlighten them on their history\u201d.<\/div>\n
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\u201cI\u2019m very proud to be Irish. There\u2019s a pride in America of being Irish. I can\u2019t wait to come back and I want to visit the land of my ancestors and the castle that they had.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tom Cruise has Irish ancestors who owned a majority of Dublin. The action star was presented with a certificate of Irish roots by the country\u2019s Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Eamon Gilmore earlier this month and learnt his relatives can be traced back to the 9th century after two female fans researched his family […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}