Posted on 03/17/2009 8:52:06 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
US President Barack Obama is to be presented with a copy of baptismal records which prove his Offaly connections.
Taoiseach Brian Cowen will hand-deliver a photograph of Templeharry Church in Moneygall, where Obama's great-great-great-grandfather was baptised, along with parish records and a picture of the schoolhouse his ancestors attended.
Mr Cowen will also extend an invitation to President Obama to visit Ireland and to Moneygall during his St Patrick's Day visit to the White House.
Top of the agenda during Mr Cowen's visit will be the global economy and the murders of two soldiers and a police officer in Northern Ireland.
However, he will also be taking time out to speak to Barack Obama about his Irish ancestors. Obama's great-great-great-grandfather, Fulmouth Kearney, was reared in the tiny village in Co Offaly before he left for New York at the age of 19.
It's almost 160 years ago since the historic journey was made. However, Obama's eighth cousin, Henry Healy, is still hopeful he'll get to meet his distant relation.
\[Chris Cairns\]Mr Healy met the Taoiseach on Saturday morning and handed him a number of items to deliver to the White House.
"We gave him a book written by Seamus O'Riain, the former president of the GAA, and the picture of Templeharry Church and a picture of the schoolhouse where his ancestors would have attended. There's pictures of the baptismal records as well."
The idea to bring proof of Mr Obama's Irish ancestry to the White House came from Shinrone councillor Peter Ormond.
Mr Healy hopes the photographs of where Mr Obama's ancestors worshipped will stir an interest in the president to investigate his family tree further.
Then you can give it back to them when they're born.
Fo’ shizzle an’ begorrah....
Obama Hussein is a liar, an Islamophile, a Bolshevik, and a traitor.
He should be impeached.
If the Republicans ever find their testacles and manage to take back Congress in 2010, he very well may.
Mr. Cowen is probably just anxious to add to his classic American DVD collection.
several generations back on his mother’s side...
Not in my family.... the advantage of being Scots and Swede
Maybe it will inspire him to go back to church.
I can’t remember a president who didn’t make a big deal about going to church on Sunday mornings. When was the last time Obama went?
He isn’t Irish, but I’ll bet he has kin buried at the Kremlin Wall.
beat me to it; he fits the definition to a T
I wonder if President O'Blarney will give Mr Cowen a set of DVDs?
They must be mad, or they have been drinking too much Guiness over there.
Offical proof ... Obama is OFFAL!
Will Mr. Cowen receive a Blockbuster gift card for all his trouble?
Talk about black Irish.
“Mr Healy hopes the photographs of where Mr Obama’s ancestors worshipped will stir an interest in the president to investigate his family tree further.”
Sounds like a racist remark to me.
The only Irish proof he’s gonna get is 80 proof.
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