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Will Ferrell turned on the charm while receiving his James Joyce Award at UCD. (AP Images)

Will Ferrell, joined by his brother and father, has been traveling Ireland to trace his family heritage. Along the way, Ferrell stop by the University College Dublin to pick up the James Joyce Award from the Literary and Historical Society.

He addressed the crowd of over 1,000 university students, "As I perused my leather-bound volumes of 'Ulysses,' 'Finnegans Wake,' 'Dubliners,' 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,' standing in my mahogany library, a lot of feelings ran across my mind. Like: 'Damn, I should have read these books.'"

Ferrell also spoke of Guinness and poked fun at the locals.

"I love the taste of Guinness on the back of your throat, when it repeats on you the next morning.  I love sitting in a cozy pub talking with a local, whose accent is so thick it sounds like he's gargling phlegm."

"Mr Ferrell receives the James Joyce Award for his tremendous contribution to the field of comedy entertainment, as a comedian, writer and actor," said Michael McGrath, Auditor, Literary and Historical Society, UCD.

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