Glasgow lovers,
in a recent interview (last two years),
Robert Carlyle was featured by a Belfast periodical,
on the occasion of a film festival there.
The journalist asked Carlyle just how Irish he was,
and he disclosed:
"I'm seven-eighths Irish."

Which I take to mean that
seven of his eight great-grandparents
were of Irish descent.
Carlyle has often spoken about ancestors
named Duffy or Michell
who crossed from either the Republic or the North of Ireland
to Glasgow during the 1800's.

And he has said, comparing Vancouver, British Columbia
(where he films television and makes money
and keeps his family fed mostly)
to Glasgow, Scotland,
that what he misses most about Glasgow
is "the craic."