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Barack Obama, Another Irish-American

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Church documents … along with census, immigration and other records tracked down by U.S. genealogists, appear to show that Obama’s great-great-great-grandfather, Fulmuth Kearney, was reared in Moneygall [Ireland], then left for America in 1850, when he was 19 … Kearney sailed to New York aboard the S.S. Marmion at a time when legions of Irish were leaving their famine-stricken island. The shoemaker’s son made a life in America, and his family line eventually produced Ann Durham, who was born in Kansas … Durham married a Kenyan, also named Barack Obama, who was studying in Hawaii, and in 1961 they had a son, now a leading candidate to become president of the United States.

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