Family and Education
Adopted as a baby, his birth mother is actress Sinéad Cusack, with whom he was later reunited. This was revealed in the last week of his unsuccessful 2007 Dáil election campaign, during which Cusack, a vocal opponent of the Iraq War, canvassed for him. In May 2013, he revealed that theatre director Vincent Dowling, who died aged 83, was his biological father. He is the biological half-brother of actor Max Irons and photographer Samuel Irons.
He was raised in Glenageary, by adoptive parents David and Valerie Boyd Barrett, attending St Michael's College in Dublin 4. He holds a Master's Degree in English Literature from University College Dublin.
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