'Lost tomb" of Obama's 6th generation great uncle found in Ireland

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Lost-Tomb-of-Obama-found-in-Ireland-56717412.html

After a painstaking search, film maker Gabriel Murray, who is in the process of making a documentary on Obama's Irish roots, finally found “Obama’s Lost Tomb” inside the 13th century St. Canice’s Cathedral.

Murray, along with Cathedral assistant Frances Moore, used a centuries-old map to identify a hidden vault under the floor of St. Canice’s. They deciphered the Latin on the hundreds of tombs inside the vault, when they came across Bishop John Kearney’s resting place, number 19 on the map, just 20 yards from the main entrance.

"I have to admit it was very exciting and it was great to finally prove conclusively that Barack Obama's sixth generation grand uncle was the Bishop of Ossory and a former provost of Trinity College who died in Kilkenny city at the Bishop's Palace in 1813. It is now the headquarters of the Heritage Council," Murray told the Kilkenny People.

"The Palace is the site of the only building in existence that is directly linked to Bishop John Kearney and so to Obama," the historian added.

otherwise, how do we know he's really dead?

:rofl:

better that than a pirate or something. :D

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/09/03/muhammad.ali.ennis.ireland/

Legendary American boxer Muhammad Ali has visited the birthplace of his ancestors in Ireland, prompting thousands of well-wishers to line the streets of the town.

Muhammad Ali on a nine-day visit to Europe that included a stopover to his ancestral home in Ireland.

The scenes were reminiscent of a presidential visit as the 67-year-old former three-times world heavyweight champion traveled to Ennis, County Clare to see the hometown of his forebear.

The visit was commemorated by the town council with the unveiling of a plaque at the home of his great-grandfather and by making Ali the first honorary "freeman" of the town.

Abe Grady -- the grandfather of Ali's mother Odessa Lee Grady -- lived in the town of Ennis, before emigrating to the United States in 1860 where he married an African-American emancipated slave.

Ali -- who was crowned Sportsman of the Century by Sports Illustrated in 1999 -- had his Irish heritage uncovered by genealogists in 2002.

"Now that we know Muhammad is an Ennis man, we will be back," Ali's wife Lonnie told Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper.

The small County Clare town of 23 thousand put on an open-air concert, closed schools early and had special screenings of the Ali versus George Foreman documentary "When We Were Kings" to welcome the "Louisville Lip."

Ali -- who has been a Parkinson's Disease sufferer since 1984 -- did not speak to those who had gathered but shadow-boxed to spectators and cameras before meeting his distant relatives.

"It was incredible. We've had so much rain, and yet today it was beautiful. The rain held off wherever Muhammad Ali went," Frankie Neylon, the town's mayor said.

Ali fought in Ireland only once during his career, beating Al Blue Lewis in a non-title bout at Dublin's Croke Park in 1972.

The visit to Ireland was part of a nine-day tour of Europe that Ali had undertaken to raise money to fight Parkinson's Diseas

more so than Ali does.

:eyes:

to lend credibility to "the messiah" to take the heat off his birth certificate fiasco. Its all a conspiracy I tell ya.

(smile)