Editing Barry Fitzgerald (section)

==Early life==
[[File:Fitzgeraldhouse.jpg|thumb|Fitzgerald's birthplace on Walworth Road, Portobello, Dublin]]
Fitzgerald was born William Joseph Shields in Walworth Road, [[Portobello, Dublin|Portobello]], [[Dublin]], Ireland, the son of Fanny Sophia (née Ungerland) and Adolphus Shields. His father was Irish and his mother was German.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details-civil/e9a53d0208976 
|title=General Registrar's Office |website=IrishGenealogy.ie |access-date=14 January 2017}}{{dead link|date=February 2025}}</ref><ref name=boy>Boylan 1999, p. 130.</ref><ref>{{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/wheretheylivedin00cowe/page/122/mode/2up?q=%22barry+fitzgerald%22| quote=...was born at 1 Walworth Road, the son of an Irish father, Adolphus Shields, and a German mother, Fanny Ungerland.| title=Where they lived in Dublin| first=John| last=Cowell| year=1980| publisher=O'Brien Press| location=Dublin| isbn=978-0-9051-4043-8| access-date=26 February 2025}}</ref> He was the older brother of Irish actor [[Arthur Shields]]. Although he would be frequently cast as stereotypical [[Irish Catholics]] throughout his career. Fitzgerald was raised in the [[Church of Ireland]].<ref>{{cite news| title=Fitzgerald Meets Fame — and He Frowns| first=Fred| last=Stanley| url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/packages/html/movies/bestpictures/way-ar2.html?scp=2&sq=The%20Seeker&st=cse#:~:text=His%20family%20were%20members%20of,even%20sang%20in%20the%20choir.| newspaper=[[The New York Times]]| date=14 January 1945| page=120| url-access=subscription}}</ref>

He attended [[Skerry's College#Skerry.27s College in Dublin|Skerry's College]] in Dublin before going on to work in the [[Civil Service (United Kingdom)|civil service]], starting as a junior clerk at the Dublin Board of Trade in 1911.<ref>{{cite web| archive-url=https://archive.today/20120708112636/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_gx5212/is_2000/ai_n19128522| archive-date=8 July 2012| url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_gx5212/is_2000/ai_n19128522| title=Fitzgerald, Barry| website=International Dictionary of Film and Filmmakers| year=2000| first=Anthony| last=Slide}}</ref><ref name="irish"/> He later went to work for the unemployment office. "It was an easy job, full of leisure," he later said.<ref name="driver">{{cite news| title=Barry Fitzgerald: Mr. Fitzgerald, Driver Of 'The White Steed'| first=Theodore| last=Strauss| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1939/02/12/archives/barry-fitzgerald-mr-fitzgerald-driver-of-the-white-steed.html?searchResultPosition=1| newspaper=[[The New York Times]]| date=12 February 1939| page=129| url-access=subscription}}</ref>