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MoneygallFalmouth Kearney, a maternal great-great-greatgrandfather of Barack Obama, 44th President of theUnited States of America, emigrated from Moneygallto New York City at the age of 19 in 1850, near the endof the Great Famine, and eventually resettled in TiptonCounty, Indiana.[8] Kearney's father, Joseph, hadbeen the village shoemaker, then a prosperous, skilledtrade. The whole Kearney family emigrated to RossCounty, Ohio, in the first half of the 19th century.Falmouth Kearney's youngest daughter, Mary Ann,moved from Indiana to Kansas after her father's deathin 1878. Mary Ann Kearney is a paternal grandmotherof Stanley Dunham, President Obama's maternalgrandfather.On 23 May 2011, Obama andhis First Lady, MichelleObama, visited Moneygall aspart of a visit to Ireland. TheObamas arrived to arapturous reception by 5,000people. The President wasgreeted upon arrival by Henry Healy, his distantcousin, and following a walkabout on the main streetwhere they shook hands with many local residents,the Obamas entered a house that had been built onthe site where Falmouth Kearney had lived.Afterwards, they visited Ollie Hayes's pub to meetmore of the President's distant relatives and to studythe birth records of his ancestors. President and Mrs.Obama drank Irish stout to the traditional toast, sláinte(meaning "good health"), and Mrs. Obama wentbehind the bar to learn how to pull a pint.32
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