Can't resist this one...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xkw8ip43Vk
Best wishes
Jean
Barack O'Bama
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Anne H
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Re: Barack O'Bama
I was a bit slow
(it's been a long day) ...................but when the chorus broke in 
Best wishes,
Annette
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It seems that heritage is often an opportunity not to be missed....
Obama's Irish Ancestral Town Mulls Heritage Center
The following news item about President Obama appeared recently on AFP:
DUBLIN, Jan 16, 2009 (AFP) - An Irish town that claims to be an ancestral home of US president-elect Barack Obama is mulling plans for a heritage centre in his name, a spokesman said on Friday.
Offaly County Council already owns the site of the demolished building in Moneygall, where Obama's great-great-great grandfather on his mother's side grew up before emigrating to the US in 1850.
Councillor Peter Ormond will ask the council to consider building a heritage centre or museum on the site at a meeting next week. "I would like to see us put something in place pretty soon," he told AFP.
"If Obama did decide to come in three or four year's time then we would have something in place. There is no point in trying to do it a few months before he comes," he added, saying that publicity about Obama's Irish roots has already led to an increase in US tourists to the area.
Offaly is also the political power base of Prime Minister Brian Cowen, who invited Obama to visit when he telephoned Obama shortly after his election last November.
The Moneygall site, which used to be known as Kearney's Gardens -- after Obama's ancestor Fulmouth Kearney -- was bought by the council about 10 years ago for "affordable homes."
Local Church of Ireland canon Stephen Neill, who discovered Obama's Irish connections in parish records, and distant cousin Henry Healy have done a lot of research into the Kearneys, who had a shoe business in the town, said Ormond.
"An Obama centre would be a big tourist attraction. Since there has been publicity about Moneygall a lot of people have been calling and I think that will continue," he said.
If Obama does decide to look up his Irish roots he will be following in the footsteps of other presidents with an Irish heritage like Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan and John Kennedy.
Obama's Irish Ancestral Town Mulls Heritage Center
The following news item about President Obama appeared recently on AFP:
DUBLIN, Jan 16, 2009 (AFP) - An Irish town that claims to be an ancestral home of US president-elect Barack Obama is mulling plans for a heritage centre in his name, a spokesman said on Friday.
Offaly County Council already owns the site of the demolished building in Moneygall, where Obama's great-great-great grandfather on his mother's side grew up before emigrating to the US in 1850.
Councillor Peter Ormond will ask the council to consider building a heritage centre or museum on the site at a meeting next week. "I would like to see us put something in place pretty soon," he told AFP.
"If Obama did decide to come in three or four year's time then we would have something in place. There is no point in trying to do it a few months before he comes," he added, saying that publicity about Obama's Irish roots has already led to an increase in US tourists to the area.
Offaly is also the political power base of Prime Minister Brian Cowen, who invited Obama to visit when he telephoned Obama shortly after his election last November.
The Moneygall site, which used to be known as Kearney's Gardens -- after Obama's ancestor Fulmouth Kearney -- was bought by the council about 10 years ago for "affordable homes."
Local Church of Ireland canon Stephen Neill, who discovered Obama's Irish connections in parish records, and distant cousin Henry Healy have done a lot of research into the Kearneys, who had a shoe business in the town, said Ormond.
"An Obama centre would be a big tourist attraction. Since there has been publicity about Moneygall a lot of people have been calling and I think that will continue," he said.
If Obama does decide to look up his Irish roots he will be following in the footsteps of other presidents with an Irish heritage like Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan and John Kennedy.
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AnneM
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Loved the video. An excellent stress reliever. George MacDonald Fraser in his book The Steel Bonnets points out that Nixon is a good Borders name....hope he came from the English side.
Anne
Anne
Anne
Researching M(a)cKenzie, McCammond, McLachlan, Kerr, Assur, Renton, Redpath, Ferguson, Shedden, Also Oswald, Le/assels/Lascelles, Bonning just for starters
Researching M(a)cKenzie, McCammond, McLachlan, Kerr, Assur, Renton, Redpath, Ferguson, Shedden, Also Oswald, Le/assels/Lascelles, Bonning just for starters
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