Family
Martin was born in Omagh, County Tyrone on 17 April 1947. She is of Irish, Scottish and Italian ancestry. Her surname was originally Martini. Her paternal great-grandfather Francis Martin was born in Dublin to immigrants from Lombardy, Italy. Martin's maternal great-grandparents, William Green and Elizabeth Nangle had a coal-mining background; they had transferred to Belfast from Larkhall, Scotland.
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