Pierce Brosnan was born in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland, to Thomas Brosnan, a carpenter, and May, and was their only child. He lived in Navan, County Meath for 12 years and considers it his hometown. Pierce Brosnan's father abandoned the family when Pierce was an infant. When he was four years old, his mother moved to London to work as a nurse. From that point on, Pierce Brosnan was largely brought up by his grandparents, Philip and Kathleen Smith. After their deaths, he lived with an aunt and then an uncle, but was subsequently sent to live in a boarding house run by a woman named Eileen.
