John 'Jack' Lennon : Short Biography

When The Beatles toured Ireland in 1963, John Lennon declared “We’re all Irish!” Alfred Lennon was a merchant seaman of Irish descent, was away at the time his wife Julia gave birth to John on October 9, 1940. “I'm a quarter Irish or half Irish or something, and long, long before the trouble started, I told Yoko that's where we're going to retire, and I took her to Ireland. We went around Ireland a bit and we stayed in Ireland and we had a sort of second honeymoon there. So, I was completely involved in Ireland” – John Lennon, 1971 Lennon purchased an island off the West Coast of Ireland, which he owned until his untimely death in 1980.

John Lennon

Alfred Lennon

The Beatles

John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono

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