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.
Sorry!
What a F—king Joke , this Clown in Chief has traced his “Ancestry” back 4 or 5 generations with pinpoint accuracy.
What a monstrous insult, Obama delivers to the American People, while at the same time he hasn’t bothered to produce his Certificate of Birth which should take him 5 minutes to produce and should have been done before he ran for the Office of President.
How perfectly Tawdry and churlish on Obama’s Part.
Shame on these many Hack Supreme courts, who refused to hear the challennges, on the basis that the citizens did not have standing to sue.
“Black Irish are folks of Cherokee-Irish decent. “Black-Irish are unknown in Ireland.
Please don’t insult these wonderful Americans!”
Uh . . .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Irish
I don’t care where this low-life, creep-thug was born.
There is not one single American, microscopic fragment in Zero. I “hope” for the day he is frog-marched out of the White House.
He gives me the “funny uncle” creeps.
My comment to you was by-the-way, for sure, no sorry neccesary! (I am not Irish.)
Not being an expert at anything, my comment came from “the deep dumb wisdom of the race” (all that stuff we assume to know because that’s the way we were told.
I stand newly informed.
Not it's not. By the way, here's a rough estimation of Obama's ancestry, calculated a while back by a professional genealogist:
Luo (50%); English (37.3%); German (4.7%); Irish (3.1%);
Scottish (1.6%); Welsh (1.6%); French (0.2%); Dutch (.05%)
I was talking about Palin (regarding the Pilgrim Fathers). :o)
Yeah, oops, I read it wrong. ;-)
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