Comments on: Barack Obama is IRISH! http://turningpoints.iomaire.com/index.php/2008/10/12/barack-obama-is-irish/ Ruminations on life, art, politics, and whatever else catches my fancy. Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:09:41 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jeff http://turningpoints.iomaire.com/index.php/2008/10/12/barack-obama-is-irish/comment-page-1/#comment-48 Jeff Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:54:51 +0000 http://turningpoints.iomaire.com/?p=348#comment-48 Barack is fortunate that his family can be traced back that far. My immigrant ancestor arrived on these shores around 1785, but he was a Scots-Irish and there are not as many records for that ethnic group as there are for the Catholic Irish who arrived after the Great Famine. Barack is fortunate that his family can be traced back that far. My immigrant ancestor arrived on these shores around 1785, but he was a Scots-Irish and there are not as many records for that ethnic group as there are for the Catholic Irish who arrived after the Great Famine.

]]> By: colleen http://turningpoints.iomaire.com/index.php/2008/10/12/barack-obama-is-irish/comment-page-1/#comment-39 colleen Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:24:16 +0000 http://turningpoints.iomaire.com/?p=348#comment-39 Wow. I have kin in Offaly too. According to this http://www.irishorigins.com/Obama.htm politics is in his Irish blood. Wow. I have kin in Offaly too.

According to this http://www.irishorigins.com/Obama.htm politics is in his Irish blood.

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