Wexford folk rarely fail to claim a member of their diaspora – and never if the recently deceased is rich, famous and talented. Amazingly they have yet to declare Sean Connery as “one of our own”. But give them time… For the past two generations the hugely talented Scottish-born actor was one of the world’s most famous film stars. And when he died in the Bahamas last Saturday, he was also extremely wealthy (€300m, according to posthumous estimates). But research has his great-grandfather James Connery leaving Wexford for Scotland in the 1845 Famine then dying in Glasgow from bronchitis in…

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