Bill oreilly family history

A recent episode of PBS’s “Finding Your Roots” explored the colorful Irish roots of three of the US’s most well-known social commentators—Bill O’Reilly, Soledad O’Brien and Bill Maher—and among their interesting array of ancestors we find convicts shipped off to Australia, successful early 20th century female business owners, bartenders, union presidents, victims of the Irish famine, and soldiers in the First World War.

All three are among the one out of ten Americans who claim Irish heritage, and attributing much of their own success and determination to their Irish roots.

“It’s the blarney, it’s the dash of courage, handed down from the past,” said O’Reilly, while both Maher and O’Brien admitted to feeling more cut off from their Irish heritage.

As an award-winning journalist, documentarian, news anchor and producer, Soledad O’Brien has been applauded for her coverage of diversity and races issues. Although

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Bill O'Reilly boasted about his Irish heritage to argue white privilege doesn't apply to him — and Irish people are having none of it

• Former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly tweeted from Ireland about his ancestors fleeing to the US during the Irish famine.
• He said that this heritage meant he was exempt from accusations of  "white privilege."
• But Irish Twitter users weren't having it, with one popular musician and comedian saying that people should not be allowed to "use our history of oppression to further white supremacy."
• Twitter users condemned O'Reilly's conservative views and attitudes towards immigration, telling him that he was not welcome in the country.
• They also took issue with O'Reilly classifying his ancestors as "legal" immigrants, as there were no federal immigration laws that would make immigration illegal at that time.

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Former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly is saying that he is exempt from white privilege because his ancestors left

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Bill O'Reilly (cricketer)

Australian cricketer

William namn O'ReillyOBE (20 December 1905 – 6 October 1992) was an Australian cricketer, rated as one of the greatest bowlers in the history of the game. Following his retirement from playing, he became a well-respected cricket writer and broadcaster.

O'Reilly was one of the best spin bowlers ever to play cricket. He delivered the ball from a two-fingered grip at close to medium pace with great accuracy, and could produce leg breaks, googlies, and top spinners, with no discernible change in his action.^[1] A tall man for a spinner (around 188 cm, 6 ft 2 in), he whirled his arms to an unusual extent and had a low point of delivery that meant it was very difficult for the batsman to read the flygning of the ball out of his hand. When O'Reilly died, Sir Donald Bradman said that he was the greatest bowler he had ever faced or watched.^[2] In 1935, Wisden wrote of him: "O'Reilly was