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Bryant, Corrina (22 January 2018). "Steve Brown obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 2 June 2019. Billy Connolly to receive Special Recognition Award at National Television Awards". The Daily Telegraph. 8 January 2016. Archived from the original on 10 January 2022 . Retrieved 20 January 2016.Ward, Victoria (14 December 2012). "Elderly should be cared for by their children, Billy Connolly says". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 10 January 2022 . Retrieved 29 December 2018. O'Toole, Emer (22 June 2017). "Sir Billy Connolly to receive honorary degree from University of Strathclyde". The Sunday Post . Retrieved 28 November 2017. Stephenson, Pamela (2003). Bravemouth: Living with Billy Connolly. Headline. ISBN 978-0-7553-1284-9. Connolly was born at home in Anderston, Glasgow. He grew up in a tenement in the same inner-city area. Connolly has five children. He is married to Pamela Stephenson, the mother of his three youngest children. [2]

As of 2017, Glasgow has at least three large-scale gable murals commissioned by BBC Scotland and one metalwork mural commissioned by Sanctuary Scotland Housing Association depicting him. [100] Sulway, Verity (28 December 2020). " 'Happy' Billy Connolly says he's made peace with death as Parkinson's advances". mirror . Retrieved 4 January 2021. The South Bank Show episode guide". TV.com. 4 October 1992. Archived from the original on 17 June 2008 . Retrieved 1 September 2011. In April 2014, in an interview with the Radio Times leading up to the independence referendum, he stated "I think it's time for people to get together, not split apart. The more people stay together, the happier they'll be." He also referred to the Darien scheme, an effort to establish a Scottish colony in the Isthmus of Panama in 1698; the colony's failure destroyed the Kingdom of Scotland's economy and led to the Acts of Union in 1707. Connolly wrote, "You must remember that the Union saved Scotland. Scotland was bankrupt and the English opened us up to their American and Canadian markets, from which we just flowered." Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDFed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p.65.Connolly's paternal grandfather, whom—like his paternal grandmother—Connolly never met, was an Irish immigrant who left Ireland when he was ten years old. [62] [63] [14] His great-great-great-grandfather (Charles Mills, a coast guard, 1796–1870) [64] and great-great-grandfather (Bartholomew Valentine Connolly) were from Connemara. [62]