Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Obama's Irish Relatives interviewed and Whiskey is malted for the US President in Co. Louth


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While Barack Obama prepares for his first hours in office, staff at the Cooley Distillery in north Co Louth are already preparing for his last day in the White House.
Today an American wood cask has been filled with a special blend malt whiskey which will be put in storage to mature before being given to the US President-elect when he eventually leaves the White House...RTE

Barack Obama's great-great-great-grandfather, Fulmuth Kearney, was reared in Moneygall Co. Offaly (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, according to Ancestry.com. The Web site has posted some of Obama's records online.
Durham married a Kenyan, also named Barack Obama, who was studying in Hawaii, and in 1961 they had a son, Barack the new President....Washington Post

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