Sharon Horgan

He's a Kiwi, but he ended up in Ireland.

He moved to London from New Zealand when he was really young.

He left New Zealand when he was about 19 and worked on a ship to sort of travel the world and then ended up in London.

I met my mum.

My mum had travelled from the Sticks.

in Ireland, and this was at a time when women didn't really leave their rural environment to go looking for adventure.

And then they met in London at a Irish club, because I think my dad had heard that Irish girls were, you know.

I've got a few.

You do?

Little, tiny.

Why?

Well, because my parents had a pub called the White Thorn.

And I remember it was one of those sort of East End pubs that had a piano and very sort of family feeling.

But it was also an East End pub.

So lots of gangsters around and dodgy kind of vibe, which is why we got the hell out.

We lived upstairs above the pub.

I've got a weird memory of Chinese takeaway, a cat.

I've got like very sort of snapshots.

And I don't think it's just from photographs because back in the day, no one took any.

I think they're genuine memories from age three to four.