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Obama to be presented with proof of Irish ancestry
Belfast Telegraph ^
| 3/17/09
| Belfast Telegraph Staff
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.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; blarney; immigration; irish; obama; obamafamily
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
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posted on
03/17/2009 9:01:10 AM PDT
by
AirForceMom
(Locked and loaded, and sharpening my pitchfork.)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
42
posted on
03/17/2009 9:01:18 AM PDT
by
maggief
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Just more white ancestors for B.O. to throw under the bus
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posted on
03/17/2009 9:01:51 AM PDT
by
KeyLargo
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
He can prove he’s Irish but refuses to prove he is a natural born American.
44
posted on
03/17/2009 9:01:59 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
( "an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
To: maggief
45
posted on
03/17/2009 9:02:23 AM PDT
by
maggief
To: Lancey Howard
46
posted on
03/17/2009 9:02:45 AM PDT
by
KeyLargo
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
O’Bama is of the Irish peepole.
Who knew?!
47
posted on
03/17/2009 9:03:35 AM PDT
by
maggief
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
As a descendant from typical white people, I'm sure he's looking forward to this, another public admission of guilt.
48
posted on
03/17/2009 9:05:34 AM PDT
by
Melinda
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Where’s the birth certificate?Let us see!!
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posted on
03/17/2009 9:06:01 AM PDT
by
PLD
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
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posted on
03/17/2009 9:06:07 AM PDT
by
paulycy
(BEWARE the LIBERAL/MEDIA Complex)
To: maggief
“O’Bama is of the Irish peepole.
Who knew?!...”
This jamokee is no more Irish than the other Hussein...
Just another publicity stunt for the sheeple....
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posted on
03/17/2009 9:06:30 AM PDT
by
lgjhn23
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
He's a freeking Arab-American first, American second.
Irish my green ass.
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posted on
03/17/2009 9:06:44 AM PDT
by
MaxMax
(RINO=RAT!)
To: BigFinn
Funny how they can find baptismal records but the actual factual birth certificate is illusive. Hmmm.Yeah. Hilarious.
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posted on
03/17/2009 9:06:45 AM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 56 of our national holiday from reality.)
To: SolidWood
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posted on
03/17/2009 9:07:25 AM PDT
by
jla
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Well, we're all Irish on St. Patrick's Day! ;-)
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posted on
03/17/2009 9:07:40 AM PDT
by
fortunecookie
(Please pray for Anna, age 7, who waits for a new kidney.)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
The boy was born a third generation Communist. That’s good enough for me!
To: jla
She’s got Pilgrim Fathers in her ancestry too.
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posted on
03/17/2009 9:08:55 AM PDT
by
SolidWood
(Palin: "In Alaska we eat therefore we hunt.")
To: SolidWood
They can get parish records of his great-great-great-grandfater in Ireland, but they can't get his Birth Certificate!?BTTT!
Heck, they probably even translated the records from the original Gaelic!
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posted on
03/17/2009 9:09:14 AM PDT
by
fortunecookie
(Please pray for Anna, age 7, who waits for a new kidney.)
To: SolidWood; jla
She’s got Pilgrim Fathers in her ancestry too.Yeah, she's got it all.
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posted on
03/17/2009 9:10:05 AM PDT
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fortunecookie
(Please pray for Anna, age 7, who waits for a new kidney.)
To: fortunecookie; SolidWood; jla
Yeah, she's got it all.Oops, read it wrong, blush, I meant Obama's mom.
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03/17/2009 9:11:40 AM PDT
by
fortunecookie
(Please pray for Anna, age 7, who waits for a new kidney.)
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