Barak Obama's Irish Saga

Barak Obamas Irish Saga is a documentary tracing President Barak Obamas Irish roots. These go back to Moneygall, a small village in Co Offaly in the Irish Mid-lands.

Joseph Kearney and Sarah Healy married in County Offaly in 1761.

Their Grandson, Fulmoth emigrated to Ross County, Ohio in the early 1850s.

Fulmoths daughter married Jacob William Dunham in Kansas in 1863.

Jacob and his wife, Mary Ann had a son, in 1894 called Ralph Waldo Emerson Dunham.

He married Ruth Armour and they had a son called Stanley Armour Dunham in 1819.

He married Madelyn Payne and they had a daughter called Stanley Ann Dunham who married Barak Obama Senior in 1960. Barak Obama Junior was born in Honolulu on August 4 1961.

The film features Canon Stephen Neill, a local Historian, who talks about the Kearney family and their life in Moneygall; Henry Healy, a distant relative of President Obama who talks about Fulmoth Kearney; Gary Cotter, the Editor of the Nenagh Guardian who says the Kearney Family sold property in 1981 to fund their emigration to America.

Max Madden, Producer

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[TheBuriedMoon]

Pretty cool :)

[Knockreaghimages]

Thank You

[trommelbiel]

simply cool

[Knockreaghimages]

Thanks for watching

[Bonnie79]

cool video thanks!!

[Knockreaghimages]

Thank You

[TheAmericanArm]

I don't care about his ancestry ---> I just want to know why he is taking so many Vacations...

[marmaladekamikaze]

He's not really any of those things, most importantly he's the President!

[impodds]

@MyMadra, Well, if you had a full brain you would know that he went to Harvard just like his father. Since one cannot live without their brain, does that mean that he has his father's brain? and if thats the case, does that mean that he is more African than he is White? Since there is no way to measure these competing factors, i would like to suggest that you assume he is a man. That way, you would be rest assured you are right.

[impodds]

@MyMadra Ok, here it is, If you mix a cracker and a cookie together, there would be no cracker or a crackie out there that would taste or look like it. Simple logic.

Obama is biracial. He is not black nor is he white. He is both. But, he is especially "Black" because of some historical reason and you should know that.

[jamieblond1]

Does this mean that the president's real name is Barry O'Bama?

[3ddriver]

Great video!!!! Thanks for posting it.

[MyMadra]

@statelybird3 hahahaha no he doesnt NO african looks European like obama...half of obama's heritge is EUROPEAN..there's not a full blooded african in the world who looks as european as obama...and dont bring up albino ones because they look african, and ETHIOPIANS AND EGYPTIONS are of alot of non-african ancestry as a result of the middle east...so dont give me that crap...white people come in all different forms too but they're still white...obama doesnt look black, he looks biracial

[statelybird3]

@MyMadra

Africans come in MANY different shapes and forms---exactly what the hell is the average African supposed to look like? The President looks African,too, because he's of African descent---frankly, I have a problem with how white folks only want to claim his white side, as if that makes him more acceptable to them, plus it's a subtle way of getting around the fact that he's black, since they can't deal with THAT part--and you can't always tell when a person is mixed by looking at them.

[statelybird3]

@Napoleonkuryakin

@napoleonkuryakin

No, what YOU'RE saying is dogshit---his mother was of Irish descent, so therefore he's 1/3 Irish---what's so damn hard to understand about that? Or maybe you just don't want to accept that a black man can be Irish,or even part Irish? Here, in America, where damn near EVERYBODY is mixed to some extent, this ain't no big revelation---funny how if he were lily-white, you wouldn't have ANY probably accepting his part-Irish roots. And,yeah,it's fucking cool!

[MyMadra]

@ethangirlsmom No, you said his other half was Irish...which it isn't...and why would you give a shit what racists see?..you're not going to change their ignorant retarded minds