Today’s question is pretty easy:
“is gerard bulter an irish or an american”
The answer is: neither.
Gerard Butler was born in Glasgow, which is in Scotland, which is in the United Kingdom, also known as Great Britain. But, according to the imdb, he’s of partial Irish ancestry (and therefore doesn’t have a tartan).
Nowadays, he lives in London, New York and Los Angeles.
I hope that helped! Until next time!
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I love this. Many times, I have looked at a google search term that led to my blog(sample: “how long does it take to become an air hostess”, shaken my head sadly and wondered whether the person ever got their answer :) Maybe I should also write a post answering the most common questions!
I like it, too… Sometimes I wonder about the questions. Sometimes I wonder why people actually type questions into search engines. But as I always try to be of assistance, I figured I start to answer the questions… :)
If you start to do that, I can tell you that you will surely learn some new things.
Butler is actually has Irish ancestry on both sides of his family. His family on mother’s and father’s sides moved to Scotland before the 2nd World War. He’s a Scot having been raised there but his blood, like many other Scots from Glasgow, is Irish.
Well, it’s never too late to learn, is it! But I think that we can count him as Scotish, seeing as his family moved there rather long ago… To get a final answer, though, I guess, we would have to ask the man himself. :)
You may want to check out this website.
http://www.doyle.com.au/tartan_irish.htm
you will find info like this:
Currently known Irish Family Tartans:
Bowling
Finniegan, Finigan
Kennedy Weathered
McShane
O’Reilly, Reilly, Riley
Brady, Dress Blue
Fitzgerald
Kiernan
Milligan
O’Rourke
Brooke
FitzPatrick
Logan Ancient
Murphy
O’Shaughnessy
Bryant Flynn
Logan Modern
O’Brien
O’Sullivan, Sullivan
********Butler ***************
Forde
Lynch O’Carroll (Clan Cian)
Quinn
Casey, Dress
Gallagher Ancient
MacSheehy
O’Connor Dress
Rafferty
Donnolly Ancient
Kelly Dress
McCarthy
O’Farrell
Teirney
Irish National & County Tartans:
etc.
I think that the not having a tartan part – which I took from the imdb, btw – was about Scottish Clan Tartans, which Mr. Butler doesn’t belong to, because he’s (at least partially) of Irish Ancestry. If he does have a Irish Tartan (meaning if he actually belongs to the Irish Tartan having Butler family), then I apologise. :)
But I guess, if he has a Tartan or not, doesn’t really matter.