from his autobiography on his new website:

My mother was from Lisburn in County Antrim and my father had been born in Glasgow. .... I was born in London in 1942. He later tells he came to Dublin when he was 21 (though he doesn't explicitely say it was the first time).

So it's true, but it hardly matters.

I remember listening to him with an Englishman beside me and he said: Now that's the typical Irish tinker.

I've seen him play about four times and I'd go for at least four more if opportunity comes.

Wolfgang