Carry on Cork: Barbara Windsor's roots in the Rebel County

— the actress's family left Ireland during the Famine

Barbara Windsor dies aged 83

Barbara Windsor, the star of Eastenders and the 1960s Carry On films, who died yesterday evening, had once visited Cork to trace her ancestors. 

She was filming the BBC family history show Who Do You Think You Are? and discovered that her mother's side of her family had originally come from Cork.