President Barack Obama's Roots

President Barack Obama

• August 25, 2010 - Huffington Post - "Roots Travel in Ireland" by Megan Smolenyak
• August 22, 2010 - Posterous - "Visit to Moneygall, Home of Pres. Obama's Irish Kearney Ancestors (Aug 2010)" by Megan Smolenyak
• August 2010 - "The Obama Trail, Moneygall, County Offaly" PDF format. With Corey Taratuta of www.IrishFireside.com

• March 17, 2009 - Washington Examiner - "Obama, Biden both feeling their Irish heritage today: Long lost brothers?" by Kiki Ryan and Jeff Dufour
• January 20, 2009 - New York Times - "A Portrait of Change: Nation's Many Faces in Extended First Family" by Jodi Kantor
• December 2008/January 2009 - Irish America - "A New Dawn in American Politics"
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• November/December 2008 - Ancestry Magazine - "The Quest for Obama's Irish Roots"
• October 5, 2008 - Cleveland Plain Dealer - "Presidential candidate Obama has Irish kin in southern Ohio" by Margaret Bernstein (includes PDF download of Obama's Family Tree)
• October 1, 2008 - Newsweek - "O'Bama? Why Irish Eyes are Smiling" by Carl Sullivan
• September 2008 - Irish Times - "Four Green Fields" (about 2008 U.S. elections)
• August 29, 2008 - AFP - Google News - "Obama, Biden descended from Irish cobblers: researcher"
• May 13, 2007 - The Washington Post - "Tiny Irish Village Is Latest Place to Claim Obama as Its Own" by Mary Jordan
• May 3, 2007 - Irish Times - "Moneygall is Offaly pleased with Obama connection" by Mark Rodden
• March 13, 2007 - New York Daily News - "Even a wee bit o' Irish in Barack" by Helen Kennedy