Moneygall, special correspondent - Megan Smolenyak did not want to miss that. She was the genealogist from New Jersey who went up the line of Barack Obama, maternal side. His research led to Moneygall, Irish village of 350 inhabitants. The Anglican minister Stephen Neill (a star in the county, although the Catholic priest Moneygall be much busier) who answered his call went to check the archives of the parish.
Intact! And, yes, he found traces of Falmouth Kearney, the great-great-great-grandfather of Barack Obama. That was in 2007. Megan Smolenyak (a story in itself: it has "a French birth certificate," she says) was the new figure emerged on the political scene and she was curious to know how many generations dating back to the arrival U.S.
ancestors of Barack Obama (maternal side, of course, his father is Kenyan). The genealogist has developed a theory. She says most candidates are seated, that their ancestors came over early in the U.S., the more they are likely to be elected. "I prefer to think it's a coincidence. But I noticed that there is a correlation," she said Sunday at the pub Ollie Hayes Moneygall.
Barack Obama has the peculiarity of having both a father who only stayed four years in the U.S. and a mother from a lineage that goes back to 1850. So far, the president did not insist enough on the Irish dimension. Hence his visit to Moneygall fanfare, the birthplace of his ancestors. As 44 million Americans, he means to say that he has an Irish heritage.
The White House is already campaigning for 2012. She began methodically to fight the doubts about the legitimacy of Barack Obama. The campaign team in Chicago distributes T-shirts and mugs with the birth certificate of the president in Hawaii, just to ridicule the "birthers, which bring into question its legitimacy, accusing him of not being born United States (Donald Trump, who had been their champion, beat a retreat).
On T-shirt it says will be the underlying message of the campaign 2012: "Obama: Made in the USA". The visit on Monday 23 May to Moneygall will gather images of the president with his "cousins" in Ireland which will be used in campaign videos. In Ohio and Pennsylvania territories "blue collar" not impressed by Obama's campaign team hopes that the Irish dimension will eventually pay.
Since March 17, the feast of St. Patrick, when Barack Obama announced his visit, Moneygall bathed in happiness. Whatever happens, the village - a main street away from the Dublin-Limerick road - now part of history. The house of Joseph Kearney ancestor (the father of Falmouth), a shoemaker by trade, has been transformed into a semi-museum (historical irony: the tenant was the only Métis village).
A "coffee Obama" will open "soon" and compete Ollie's the only pub. The village, which was ruined by the famine of 1840, had never really recovered. A local company donated the paintings and provide a "colorist" who made recommendations. Eugene Spillane is a bit desolate: he fell on "cream", which was already the color of her house.
Eugene is a truck driver. It is totally hilarious, fun, open, like all the locals (he did not mail it to say). He can not believe to have been driven from his house (which is on Main Street) and having to get a ticket to come back (while a member of the secret service is installed, shutters closed, and that another is posted in the backyard).
The driver had to complete sixteen forms (and Internet) to accommodate his seven brothers and one sister who all wanted to come to the event ... The family had not met in full since the father died in 1998. Moneygall been partying since Saturday now, and fully intends to extend. Sunday, the priest cut short the mass.
We were sitting on each other on the benches and "everyone wants to relax," he said. Obama's cousin in eighth grade, Henry Healy, 26, thanked the village. He became the spokesman of the "family" expanded. People call Henry VIII ... While this device seems too extravagant fun for people to Moneygall.
Even the Gardai have a smile. And unlike their American counterparts, they respond to the most intrusive, like: what are these sticks, rakes and forks they are armed? "It is to delve into the bushes," said an officer. The Army Rangers monitor the football field for three weeks (that is to be asked by the presidential helicopter).
The Secret Service searched up garbage. Eugene is stunned. Farmers had cut the hay with three weeks in advance for any disturbance can hide in tall grass. Corine Lesnes 
Intact! And, yes, he found traces of Falmouth Kearney, the great-great-great-grandfather of Barack Obama. That was in 2007. Megan Smolenyak (a story in itself: it has "a French birth certificate," she says) was the new figure emerged on the political scene and she was curious to know how many generations dating back to the arrival U.S.
ancestors of Barack Obama (maternal side, of course, his father is Kenyan). The genealogist has developed a theory. She says most candidates are seated, that their ancestors came over early in the U.S., the more they are likely to be elected. "I prefer to think it's a coincidence. But I noticed that there is a correlation," she said Sunday at the pub Ollie Hayes Moneygall.
Barack Obama has the peculiarity of having both a father who only stayed four years in the U.S. and a mother from a lineage that goes back to 1850. So far, the president did not insist enough on the Irish dimension. Hence his visit to Moneygall fanfare, the birthplace of his ancestors. As 44 million Americans, he means to say that he has an Irish heritage.
The White House is already campaigning for 2012. She began methodically to fight the doubts about the legitimacy of Barack Obama. The campaign team in Chicago distributes T-shirts and mugs with the birth certificate of the president in Hawaii, just to ridicule the "birthers, which bring into question its legitimacy, accusing him of not being born United States (Donald Trump, who had been their champion, beat a retreat).
On T-shirt it says will be the underlying message of the campaign 2012: "Obama: Made in the USA". The visit on Monday 23 May to Moneygall will gather images of the president with his "cousins" in Ireland which will be used in campaign videos. In Ohio and Pennsylvania territories "blue collar" not impressed by Obama's campaign team hopes that the Irish dimension will eventually pay.
Since March 17, the feast of St. Patrick, when Barack Obama announced his visit, Moneygall bathed in happiness. Whatever happens, the village - a main street away from the Dublin-Limerick road - now part of history. The house of Joseph Kearney ancestor (the father of Falmouth), a shoemaker by trade, has been transformed into a semi-museum (historical irony: the tenant was the only Métis village).
A "coffee Obama" will open "soon" and compete Ollie's the only pub. The village, which was ruined by the famine of 1840, had never really recovered. A local company donated the paintings and provide a "colorist" who made recommendations. Eugene Spillane is a bit desolate: he fell on "cream", which was already the color of her house.
Eugene is a truck driver. It is totally hilarious, fun, open, like all the locals (he did not mail it to say). He can not believe to have been driven from his house (which is on Main Street) and having to get a ticket to come back (while a member of the secret service is installed, shutters closed, and that another is posted in the backyard).
The driver had to complete sixteen forms (and Internet) to accommodate his seven brothers and one sister who all wanted to come to the event ... The family had not met in full since the father died in 1998. Moneygall been partying since Saturday now, and fully intends to extend. Sunday, the priest cut short the mass.
We were sitting on each other on the benches and "everyone wants to relax," he said. Obama's cousin in eighth grade, Henry Healy, 26, thanked the village. He became the spokesman of the "family" expanded. People call Henry VIII ... While this device seems too extravagant fun for people to Moneygall.
Even the Gardai have a smile. And unlike their American counterparts, they respond to the most intrusive, like: what are these sticks, rakes and forks they are armed? "It is to delve into the bushes," said an officer. The Army Rangers monitor the football field for three weeks (that is to be asked by the presidential helicopter).
The Secret Service searched up garbage. Eugene is stunned. Farmers had cut the hay with three weeks in advance for any disturbance can hide in tall grass. Corine Lesnes
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