However, farm life isn’t always idyllic. In his book Country Life, the star said there’s a “real learning curve to living in a rural community”. Born in a small area called Tranmere in Birkenhead, he moved down to London in the 80s and has now lived in Kent for more than two decades. All that stems from my love of the farm when I was a kid in Glinsk, it never goes away stuff like that O’Grady had a role in Jim Sheridan’s In the Name of the Father (1993), in which Daniel Day-Lewis won best leading actor at the Oscars. He spent three weeks filming in Kilmainham Gaol, including Easter Sunday, on the anniversary of the Easter Rising.

The joy for me of living in the countryside, you can let yourself go, I do anyway. I have friends who come down and go… when did you last have a wash? I’ve got no shoes and feet like a hobbit,” he continued. All that stems from my love of the farm when I was a kid in Glinsk, it never goes away stuff like that.”