Posted on 03/17/2011 7:01:30 AM PDT by maggief
A new study claims that President Obama has 28 living relatives who share his Irish ancestry, but some of the newly discovered kin aren't eager to share a pint with him.
In the study, released to The Associated Press by family history website Ancestry.com, genealogists traced the descendants of about two dozen passengers who came to America from Ireland on the ship Marmion in March 1850.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
Happy St. Pat’s Day.
Thank you for the blessing, and
may God bless you and yours as well.
Thus giving a new spin to the term “black Irish.”
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Yes, and I am sure I am not the only one who has heard that the Irish were nothing more than ....... turned inside out.
BTW my name starts with “O’C” so I can ‘safely’ relay that tidbit.
Nice they can find out that he has 28 living ‘Irish’ relatives, including 1 Vietnam Vet but can get no clue as to how he obtained a ‘dead guy’s’ Social Security Number - or at least one that was issued to a ‘dead guy’ at one time.
Thus giving a new spin to the term “black Irish.”
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Yes, and I am sure I am not the only one who has heard that the Irish were nothing more than ....... turned inside out.
BTW my name starts with “O’C” so I can ‘safely’ relay that tidbit.
Nice they can find out that he has 28 living ‘Irish’ relatives, including 1 Vietnam Vet but can get no clue as to how he obtained a ‘dead guy’s’ Social Security Number - or at least one that was issued to a ‘dead guy’ at one time.
I didn't realize that redheads were so rare in Ireland. My grandmother on my mother's side was blue eyed with auburn hair and the surname of Kelly. She married my grandfather, a dark eyed, dark haired man of french descent, in the city of New Orleans. Of course, as it happened all of their children were dark eyed brunettes who looked french. Sadly, no redheads of any sort in the family since then.
it’s also Italy’s 150th anniversary of unification
“If Obama’s IRISH, I’m UBANGI (this coming from an AWB - average white boy).”
Barack Obama’s Irish Family Tree Traced Back to the 17th Century, Shedding Light on Earliest Known Relatives
http://www.origins.net/Obama.htm
“everything else is merely an opportunity to do an alinsky on earsbamma and his commslut mother...
lest i forget, FUBO and the wookie ya rode in on... “
Hear!
Hear!
I just heard an announcement that Eire is on his upcoming tour agenda.
*gag*
To that wonderful post, all I can add is Amen and Slainte!
Or five seconds in Belfast.
:))
[hell, he couldn’t hack a rowdy ~Irish pub~ in NYC]
*sigh*
You listed that under “hobbies”, didn’t ya?
LOL
“I’ll take Saint Patrick’s Day celebrations over, ohh, say Kwanzaa, Cinco de Mayo, United Nations Day, or any other bullsh*t made-up lefty-lib holiday anytime.”
Some can take even St.Patrick’s Day too far.
Riot a rift in town and gown
DA says investigation is continuing into melee that cost city thousands
by JORDAN CARLEO-EVANGELIST and Bryan Fitzgerald Staff writers
Updated 11:38 a.m., Tuesday, March 15, 2011
http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Riot-a-rift-in-town-and-gown-1132965.php
My daughter is not yet 5, but she knows very well what we celebrate on St. Patrick’s Day, and why the shamrock is the symbol of both St. Patrick and Ireland. And we’re not even Irish!
Excellent!
Nothing wrong with that!
Your hair and green eyes (lucky you), are glorious.
I've a neighbor who has a very nice shade of red/auburn hair. Though never as long as yours she has lately been wearing it in what I term a 'Pelosi'. (Cut like Nancy P's). I despise it and cringe when I see it. Good thing we don't speak to one another anyway!
From the article:
“Obama found out years ago that an ancestor, Falmouth Kearney, fled the potato famine in Ireland and was brought to the United States on the Marmion when he was 19.
Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, was a descendant of one of Kearney’s daughters and a man named Jacob Dunham.”
Remember, if you go back 5 generations, you will find 32 ancestors, and only one of them is likely to have the same surname as you.
“...Some can take even St.Patrick’s Day too far...”
Generally, an extreme exception, rather than the rule.
* I'll deny posting that if ever you cut your hair in a style similar to that of Nancy Pelosi.
>>My auburn hair and green eyes came from the Welsh side.
Interesting, my grandma had red hair, but I believe that came from her Scottish father. She and my dad had gray eyes. I have curly dark brown hair but my beard used to have streaks of red through it (now it has streaks of white where the red was) and hazel eyes.
American mutt here, proud of it. Irish, Mexican, Scottish, Spanish background in about equal proportion.
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