Editing Terry Eagleton (section)

==Early life==
Eagleton was born in [[Salford, Greater Manchester|Salford]], [[Lancashire]], England, on 22 February 1943,<ref name=autogenerated2>{{Cite web |url=http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/e/25737/Terry+EAGLETON.aspx |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130724030211/http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/e/25737/Terry+EAGLETON.aspx |url-status=dead |title=Prof Terry Eagleton profile, ''Debrett's People of Today'', FBA Profile |archivedate=24 July 2013}}</ref> to Francis Paul Eagleton and his wife, Rosaleen (née Riley) Eagleton.<ref>"EAGLETON, Prof. Terence Francis" at [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U14520, ''Who's Who 2012'', A & C Black, 2012; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2011; online edn November 2011; accessed 23 September 2012].</ref> He grew up in a working-class Catholic family of Irish descent in [[County Borough of Salford|Salford]], with roots in [[County Galway]]. His mother's side of the family had strong [[Irish Republicanism|Irish republican]] sympathies. He served as an [[altar boy]] at a local [[Carmelites|Carmelite]] convent where he was responsible for escorting novice nuns taking their vows, a role referred to in the title of his memoir ''The Gatekeeper'' (2002).<ref>{{cite news |last=Andrews |first=Kernan |date=18 December 2008 |title=Terry Eagleton – taking on the capitalists and atheists in Galway |url=http://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/6353 |work=Galway Advertiser}}</ref>