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About
Grandmother of singer Ed Sheeran. She is the subject of his song "Nancy Mulligan." The track tells how she and her husband fell in love during the Second World War and got married at the Wexford border.
Before Fame
She met her husband and her father did not approve of the relationship.
Trivia
Her grandson Ed Sheeran said she and her husband got engaged and no one turned up at their wedding. They wore borrowed clothes to get married.
Family Life
She was raised Catholic. She married William Sheeran, a protestant from Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Associated With
Her grandson Ed Sheeran said she and her husband had a Romeo and Juliet romance, comparing it to the William Shakespeare play.
