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Tue 10 Oct 2009Springsteen, born in the USA but with Irish roots
A NEW book has confirmed what his legion of Irish fans have always suspected – Bruce Springsteen is one of our own.
Despite his surname which is of Dutch extraction, Springsteen has Irish ancestry through his paternal grandmother Martha O’Hagan. She married Springsteen’s grandfather Antony Springsteen in 1899.
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