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Gormley was born in London, the youngest of seven children, to a German mother and a father of Irish descent.[2][3] His paternal grandfather was an Irish Catholic from Derry who settled in Walsall in
Staffordshire.[4] The ancestral homeland of the Gormley Clan (Irish: Ó Goirmleadhaigh) in Ulster was East Donegal and West Tyrone,[5] with most people in both Derry and Strabane being of County Donegal origin. Gormley has stated that his parents chose his initials, "AMDG", to have the inference Ad maiorem Dei gloriam – "to the greater glory of God".[6
