Quote Originally Posted by O'Callaghan View Post
I was always a big fan of Sean Connery from the James Bond films. We have a complete set ... on VHS. Now I suppose we will have to collect the DVDs.

I think Sir Sean was bron and raised near Glasgow, which is pretty much the rustbelt of lowland Scotland, and that he used to be a milkman (someone who delivers bottles of milk house-to-house, an explanation needed because they stopped doing this in America in the '50s or so). Many highlanders and Irish immigrants came there for the steel and shipbuilding industries.AFAIK on his mother's side were local lowlanders with no clan or tartan, and his father's side were Irish tinkers. Sean Connery is about as Irish a name as it's possible to have, nothing Scottish about it atall. Matt pointed out that he had worn Maclean and believes it is on his mother's side somewhere. Doubtless so, as highlanders also migrated there for work, but it may not necessarily be a very close family connection.

So, I think that it's a bit much to lament that he mostly wears tartans that aren't linked to his heritage. I believe he is in the same position as many other Scotsmen, where it is a stretch to find a link to a clan tartan, if they even can atall.
Thomas Sean Connery was born in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, and his mother was a Maclean

from wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Connery