Posted on 09/08/2009 1:19:42 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
'Lost Tomb' of President Obama's Irish Ancestor Found in Cathedral Obama's Sixth Generation Grand Uncle Was Bishop of Kearney
Sept. 8, 2009—
A mystery revolving around President Barack Obama's Irish roots was solved when a tomb containing the remains of Obama's Irish ancestor was discovered in the Irish medieval city of Kilkenny.
After a painstaking search, film maker Gabriel Murray, who is in the process of making a documentary on Obama's Irish roots, finally found "Obama's Lost Tomb" inside the 13th century St. Canice's Cathedral.
Murray, along with Cathedral assistant Frances Moore, used a centuries-old map to identify a hidden vault under the floor of St. Canice's. They deciphered the Latin on the hundreds of tombs inside the vault, when they came across Bishop John Kearney's resting place, number 19 on the map, just 20 yards from the main entrance.
"I have to admit it was very exciting and it was great to finally prove conclusively that Barack Obama's sixth generation grand uncle was the Bishop of Ossory and a former provost of Trinity College who died in Kilkenny city at the Bishop's Palace in 1813. It is now the headquarters of the Heritage Council," Murray told the Kilkenny People.
"The Palace is the site of the only building in existence that is directly linked to Bishop John Kearney and so to Obama," the historian added.
Obama's links to Moneygall, County Offaly were established during his presidential run. His great-great-great grandfather on his mother's side, Fulmouth Kearney, was born and grew up there before emigrating to the U.S. in 1850.
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Dang!!! Now that is funny!
LLS
So now they have a birth certificate for one member of the obama clan.
It’s a start.
They can’t even vet simple appointees and associates of him, yet they uncover this?
Black Irish refers to hair color, not skin color. They originally came from Spain. They are the same as blue bloods - people in Spain who were so fair that you could see their blue veins through the skin.
Sorry, but a great-great-great-great-great-great-granduncle is NOT an ancestor. An ancestor must be a lineal forebear.
Ha. I was just going to look for that pic to post.
What’s the big deal? He’s just a “typical white person.”
Great, so now people can make even more connections between him and the “beloved” Kennedys. I swear they are forcing this man and his wife as square pegs through the round hole that is JFK and Jackie O.
1 Certified copy of original birth certificate
2 Columbia University transcripts
3 Columbia thesis paper
4 Campaign donor analysis requested by 7 major watchdog groups
5 Harvard University transcripts
6 Illinois State Senate records
7 Illinois State Senate schedule
8 Law practice client list and billing records/summary
9 Locations and names of all half-siblings and step-mother
10 Medical records (only the one page summary released so far)
11 Occidental College Transcripts
12 Parent’s marriage Certificate
13 Record of baptism
14 Selective Service registration records
15 Schedules for trips outside of the United States before 2007
16 Passport records for all passports
17 Scholarly articles
18 SAT and LSAT test scores
19 Access to his grandmother in Kenya
20 List of all campaign workers that are lobbyists
21 Punahou grade school records
22 Noelani Kindergarten records are oddly missing from the the State of Hawaii Department of Education.
Anyone who cares about their country would be very concerned that a POTUS had hidden every scrap of information of his life that he possibly could.
As I expected, the cathedral has been Church of Ireland since the Reformation. The fact that the president’s episcopal forbear was a *Protestant* bishop is highly relevant to the story.
I don't think an uncle is actually an ancestor.
Didst yon parchment of the O’Bama’s longe-forme Birth Charter there also resideth in such tombe ???
“They can’t even vet simple appointees and associates of him, yet they uncover this?”
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It’s enough to drive a grown man insane.
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