A life-size bust of Barack Obama sits in a bar in the village of Moneygall. There are American flags on the wall alongside the President’s campaign posters and copies of his autobiography in a glass-fronted cabinet. Round the corner is a house emblazoned in the Stars and Stripes. Across the road is a shop selling commemorative mugs, keyrings and Barack to the Future t-shirts. The village of some 300 or so residents is preparing for a visit from the American president.
In 1850, Falmouth Kearney, the 19-year-old son of a shoemaker left Moneygall to begin a new life in America, went on to marry a woman from Ohio called Charlotte Holloway, and ended up becoming great great great grandfather to a future president.
You can read more in n article by Judith Woods in The Telegraph at http://goo.gl/zrfiW
My thanks to Christine Czarnecki for telling me about this story.
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