Obama's Irish,yes it's true Obama's got Irish roots
US President Barack Obama can now count himself as one of the millions of Americans with Irish heritage.
Research has traced Barack Obama's maternal family tree back to his great-great-great-great grandfather Joseph Kearney, a well-to-do shoemaker from Moneygall, Co Offaly, who lived from 1794 to 1861. Mr Obama's roots were uncovered by Canon Stephen Neill, a Church of Ireland rector, who found baptismal and marriage records in the house of a late parishioner, Elizabeth Short.
Obama's great great great grandfather Falmouth Kearney sailed to the USA from Ireland to New York in 1850 at the age of 19 on the S.S. Marmion arriving on the 20th of March.
Obama's Irish St Patrick's Day CardsObama's great great great grandfather Falmouth Kearney initially settled in Ohio, got married, had eight children, and later moved to Indiana, right next door to the state Obama represented in the US Senate.
Mr Keaney was part of the great American migration to escape the Irish potato famine of the 1840's.The research shows that Joseph's brother Francis had already left Ireland and bequeathed land to his sibling in America on condition that he emigrated from Ireland to inherit it.
Barack Obama's father was a goat herder from Kenya, while his mother grew up in Kansas.
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