Posted on 03/23/2007 4:41:49 PM PDT by Argus
US Presidential hopeful Barack Obama can now count himself as one of the millions of Americans with Irish heritage.
Research by the genealogy website ancestry.co.uk reveals that Mr Obama's great great great grandfather was born in Ireland, although it is not yet known where.
Falmouth Kearney sailed from Ireland to New York in 1850 at the age of 19 on the S.S. Marmion arriving on the 20th of March.
AdvertisementHe initially settled in Ohio, got married, had eight children, and later moved to Indiana, right next door to the state Obama currently represents in the US Senate.
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Poga Mahone is all I got to say to O'Bama.
Poga = Pogue (corrected by my son of all peoples...)
"When in the north and the question Protestant or Catholic arises..."
The following USED to be a funny joke:
On a dark street in Belfast a man is accosted by someone who sticks a gun to the back of his head and demands, "Catholic or Protestant!?"
Thinking quickly, the man replies, "Jewish!"
But the assailant only says, "Allah akbar! I am the luckiest Muslim in all of Belfast!"
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