Muhammad Ali Has Irish Roots 1978

Muhammad Ali's Mother's Maiden Name Was O'Grady

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[superfilipino]

Just like Barack Obama black people claim him as his own WHY because he married black women and had kids.no his genetic makeup is what makes him who he is his mother 100% white father 100% black.dont say he's the 1st black president he's the first bi-racial president-OREO

[superfilipino]

Majority of light skin blacks are mixed I don't give shit anybody says the real blacks are from Africa true black is true African with darker skin.one thing I hate is when black people aka biracial people are afraid to admit they have mixed blood in their genes when you see light skin but yu see some black features your mix.why claim a whole race which you ain't and totally disregard your ancestry.if Ali great grandfather didn't exist Ali would never exist

[RayMagic12192]

@Thekillingtimeful on his father side

[Thekillingtimeful]

His Irish blood was through a marriage and not some white guy abusing a black girl, he wasn't aware of this at the time of the interview.

[peterjconroy]

World boxing champion's ''great gran-paw'' was

Abe Grady, who was born in Turnpike, Ennis, in the famine era and

emigrated to America in the post-Civil War 1860s from Cappa

Harbour, near Kilrush.

He settled in Kentucky, marrying an African-American emancipated

slave. A son from this marriage became the father of Odessa Grady,

Ali's mother, who married Cassius Marcellus Clay Snr in the 1930s.

They settled in Louisville, Kentucky, before their son Cassius Clay Jr

was born in 1942.

[peterjconroy]

@nilbud "According to genealogist Antoinette O'Brien the legendary boxer's

great grandfather hailed from the Turnpike area of Ennis and emigrated to America in the 1860s from Cappa Harbour, near Kihrush in west

Clare. Some time after arriving in the U.S., Mr. Grady married an

African-American woman. Their son also married an African-American

and one of the couple's children was Ali's mother Odessa Lee Grady.

[peterjconroy]

@nilbud There was comment earlier about making the distinction between planted ulster scotts in Ireland and the Native (catholic) Irish. There was native Irish in the Caribbean, but they themselves were slaves and indentured servants brought to the Caribbean by Cromwell, just like those Irish who were sent to Australia. Check out this on you tube The Black Irish of Montserrat - Irish accents in the Caribbean.

Ps. It is very easy to slate people behind your keyboard. Check your facts first.

[nilbud]

@peterjconroy There were plenty of Irish there before that you should look it up before you start spouting nonsense. The worst slave owners in Jamaica were Irish.

[nilbud]

@Gilbertoyaya Not so much the last part.

[ronan32]

you all do know the irish endured 800 years of slavery..where do you think the english started their slave trade?

[Paulfieldz]

@karezza6 haha fighting irish always causin trouble :)