Mary Posted May 22, 2011 Report Share Posted May 22, 2011 The Queen has just left but now President Barack Obama is visiting Ireland, ahead of his state visit to the UK. His trip to the Emerald Isle on Monday is being seen as a boost to the country amid all its economic woes, but it is also a chance for the US President to look up some family. As well as undertaking diplomatic engagements in Dublin he is expected to travel to Moneygall in County Offaly, which prides itself as being an ancestral home of the 49-year-old. The President's great-great-great-grandfather Falmouth Kearney was a shoemaker and lived in the rural village. There's no doubt Americans love to have an Irish connection, and the Irish are loving this particular link-up too. Local church records detail President Obama's family ties to Moneygall. Records show that Mr Obama's great-great-great grandfather was born in Ireland in 1831 and left for America in 1850. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie Posted May 22, 2011 Report Share Posted May 22, 2011 So it's really O'Bama Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Posted May 22, 2011 Report Share Posted May 22, 2011 We all have skeletons in our closet, metaphorically speaking. I'm underwhelmed by Irish culture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter T Posted May 22, 2011 Report Share Posted May 22, 2011 If you like potatoes, you qualify. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazj Posted May 22, 2011 Report Share Posted May 22, 2011 If you own a caravan, have a liking for Guinness and small people who say "begorrah begorrah" and have a tendancy to turn up where you are not wanted; cover the place in crap and then rob everyone within a 5 mile radius before buggering off to the next town....... you obviously have some Irish roots! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted May 23, 2011 Report Share Posted May 23, 2011 Well the good (or bad) news is Baz, due to their recession, an estimated 100,000 bog trotters have come over here "to work"! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Dizzy Posted May 23, 2011 Report Share Posted May 23, 2011 Ok so admit it who joined in when the words rolled up the screen... I did Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted May 23, 2011 Report Share Posted May 23, 2011 Well the good (or bad) news is Baz, due to their recession, an estimated 100,000 bog trotters have come over here "to work"! Nothing new there Obs. When I was researching my family tree a few months ago one of the census returns for the road where one of my ancestors lived was full of people originally born in Ireland... a lot of them were women if I remember rightly but I will re-check as I can't remember if they had Irish names or were just born in Ireland. I suppose people from here could have gone over to Ireland in the search of work etc ... had children... and then come back. Infact my gggg?-grandad married a lady who had a very Irish sounding name which could explain why I can't find any records for her... or him for that matter. Maybe HIS family was Irish too.. who knows I do have a caravan though and my grandma used to give me guinness when I was little (full of iron apparently) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 The song ASP posted was too long -- I gave up after 3 minutes. I do love potatoes, though. It seems to a staple food of Russians and Eastern Europe as well. And come to think of it, I run to watch the telly when the Lord of the Dance (Flatly) is doing a jig, and the pretty colleens with their red hair playing a violin melts my heart. Erin go bragh -- or something like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 Well I guess it's Paddy O'Bama now - surely worth the 35million Irish-American vote! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazj Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 ...........It might be bullet proof, it might be missile proof - but a teeny weeny kerb has defeated the Presidential car http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ac5_1306169483&p=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 Ooops Are red an blue hazard lights allowed on the front of a car though.. the police should have booked them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazj Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 typical wallowy American car suspension though......... got to be so bouncy to carry them big American butts around! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 Was it their exhaust as it had that sort of a clanging noise? Must be the body guards faults as Barack is quite trim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Posted May 24, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 Now that was funny! I am guessing that the suspension is too long - bet it was the oil pan that hit! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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