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Historic photograph of Obama’s Irish ancestor is discovered (Photos at link)
Irish Central ^ | March 11, 2015 | By Sheila Langan

Posted on 07/16/2015 11:29:07 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee

An historic photo of Fulmoth Kearney, President Obama’s Irish ancestor from Moneygall, Co, Offaly, has at last been found.

Merlyn White, Obama's third cousin once removed, recently learned of her connection to the president while visiting a distant relation in Scotland. The news led her to reconsider an old family photo album she had inherited from her 107-year-old great aunt. In the album's pages she found portraits of Fulmoth and his wife Charlotte, which she shared with genealogist Megan Smolenyak, who first identified Fulmoth as Obama's Irish ancestor.

This revelation of the photo comes on the heels of the discovery of Kearney's final resting place in a Kansas cemetery and his memorialization with a headstone after 136 years.

n 2007, Smolenyak traced then-candidate Barack Obama’s Irish ancestry on his mother’s side, eventually finding that his third great-grandfather, Fulmoth Kearney, left Moneygall for New York in 1850. He and his sister Margaret were bound for Ohio, where their father had inherited land from a brother. Other members of the Kearney family would gradually make their journey to America, but Fulmoth was the most recent immigrant on the maternal side of Obama's family.

Smolenyak's discovery was the catalyst for the Obamas’ joyous visit to Ireland in May 2011, during which the president raised a pint in Moneygall and gave his historic and poignant speech in Dublin. . .

(Excerpt) Read more at irishcentral.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News
KEYWORDS: 201105; dublin; fartyshadesofgreen; fulmothkearney; genealogy; ireland; kenyanbornmuzzie; moneygall
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To: montag813

He played up the Irish angle in 2007 when he was courting foreign press and foreign donors and p!ssing on American foreign policy under President George Booosh.


21 posted on 07/17/2015 2:52:43 AM PDT by a fool in paradise ("Psychopathia Sexualis, I'm in love with a horse that comes from Dallas" - Lenny Bruce (1958))
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To: LeoWindhorse

The marriage wasn’t legit. Papa Obama was already married. He was a bigamist/polygamist.

Didn’t matter anyway, it was a marriage of convenience after he’d knocked her up.

Barry is a little bastard.


22 posted on 07/17/2015 2:55:26 AM PDT by a fool in paradise ("Psychopathia Sexualis, I'm in love with a horse that comes from Dallas" - Lenny Bruce (1958))
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To: Sooth2222

Brings new meaning to the term “black Irish”


23 posted on 07/17/2015 3:05:26 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: Sooth2222

Brings new meaning to the term “black Irish”


24 posted on 07/17/2015 3:05:28 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: Slyfox

Before I’d believe any of this they’d have to dig both of them up and take some DNA and test against his.


25 posted on 07/17/2015 3:22:37 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Slyfox

They should have put a target right in the middle. So you can aim better.


26 posted on 07/17/2015 3:27:07 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Ahhhh, jug ears.


27 posted on 07/17/2015 3:56:42 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Foul mouth ???

yeah it fits...


28 posted on 07/17/2015 4:03:23 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Maybe this explains his drinking. I always figured that the reason we couldn’t get a good answer to what he was doing during Benghazi was because he was sloshed.


29 posted on 07/17/2015 4:04:57 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Smolenyak's discovery was the catalyst for the Obamas’ joyous visit to Ireland in May 2011,

Like he needs an excuse to vacation on our dime...

30 posted on 07/17/2015 4:21:01 AM PDT by eartrumpet
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To: Jack Hammer
Who gives a rat’s *ss.

Compared to this story, a rst's sss is worthy of a shrine with golden effigy.

31 posted on 07/17/2015 4:31:16 AM PDT by Stentor ("The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.")
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To: Dr. Ursus
"Brings new meaning to the term “black Irish"

why certainly, he's just a regular Irish Jig...


32 posted on 07/17/2015 5:44:07 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Is it too late to turn in my membership card and become Polish?


33 posted on 07/17/2015 6:24:51 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

HISTORY OF THE KEARNEY NAME

We will, therefore, begin this brief history of the origin of the Kearney surname with Naill of the Nine Hostages. Naill is known as somewhat of an Irish myth and legend. It has been established that he was a great historical figure who ruled Ireland from 378 to 405 AD. Naill is claimed to be the 124th Monarch of Ireland. He is known for undertaking raiding parties and kidnapping settlers who were living along the coast of Wales. It has been said that on one of these raids, Naill took a young boy hostage who later escaped and returned to Ireland. This young boy was said to be the future Saint Patrick.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kearney/histories.html


34 posted on 07/17/2015 8:16:20 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: Gaffer

While they are at it they could dig up that Frank Marshall Davis guy and get a snip of his DNA. You know, jus’ to compare.


35 posted on 07/17/2015 9:06:46 AM PDT by Slyfox (If I'm ever accused of being a Christian, I'd like there to be enough evidence to convict me)
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To: a fool in paradise

mothers need to seriously talk to and provide guidance to their daughters , don’t just let them run free and breed with whoever they get the twitch for .

it’s crazy ; this country is making a common practice of tolerating the intolerable , it’s a zoo run amok


36 posted on 07/17/2015 9:45:36 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: Sooth2222

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?


37 posted on 07/17/2015 2:31:49 PM PDT by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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