Abandoned By His Father
Pierce is the only child of Thomas and May Brosnan. Sadly, his father abandoned the family when Pierce was just an infant. His mother moved him to London when he was 4 years old. Pierce says he was largely raised by his maternal grandparents until they died. He was then taken in by an aunt and uncle before he was sent to live in a boarding house. He definitely didn’t have the easiest upbringing. When reflecting on his earliest days, Pierce said his, “Childhood was fairly solitary. I grew up in a very small town called Navan in County Meath. I never knew my father. He left when I was an infant and I was left in the care of my mother and my grandparents. To be Catholic in the 1950s, and to be Irish Catholic in the 1950s, and have a marriage which was not there, a father who was not there, consequently, the mother, the wife suffered greatly. My mother was very courageous. She took the bold steps to go away and be a nurse in England. Basically wanting a better life for her and myself. My mother came home once a year, twice a year.”
Abandoned By His Father
Roman Catholic??
Pierce was raised to be Roman Catholic and actually while he was studying at a local school, he served as an altar boy! What does he really think about religion? He commented in 2013, “It always helps to have a bit of prayer in your back pocket. At the end of the day, you have to have something and for me, that is God, Jesus, my Catholic upbringing, my faith… God has been good to me. My faith has been good to me in the moments of deepest suffering, doubt, and fear. It is a constant, the language of prayer… I might not have got my sums right from the Christian Brothers or might not have got the greatest learning of literature from them but I certainly got a strapping amount of faith.” In an interview in 2008, he explained he has other spiritual beliefs. He stated in 2008, “I also love the teachings of Buddhist philosophy. It’s my own private faith. I don’t preach it, but it’s a faith that is a comfort to me when the night is long.”
Roman Catholic?
