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.
He's Irish.
The hell he is!
Go back 4 generations and anyone can find anything.
Well blow me’lucky charms, the lad is Irish!
...is this some kind of parody from The Onion or something?
Give him long enough and he will be somehow related to Lincoln... in a few years maybe Jesus Christ. Funny how they can find baptismal records but the actual factual birth certificate is illusive. Hmmm.
just because he bullsh*ts the American public like he has a piece of the Blarney stone in his pocket DOES NOT MAKE HIM IRISH.
They can get parish records of his great-great-great-grandfater in Ireland, but they can't get his Birth Certificate!?
So I guess it’s Erin Go Braugh, Yo Mama?
His dad did get around.
ZING
ditto LOL
Should be obvious.
As my grandfather would say ..he’s smoked irish
“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.”
For instance, he could provide his original unmolested birth certificate.
At least someone in his family had a birth certificate< now I am convinced!
He’s Irish!
offal? that a pun?
Come to think of it, he qualifies as "offal"...
Isn’t EVERYONE Irish today?
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