{"id":20125,"date":"2012-01-24T23:37:59","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T23:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=20125"},"modified":"2012-01-24T23:37:59","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T23:37:59","slug":"barack-obama-the-road-from-moneygall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=20125","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama: The Road from Moneygall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barack Obama: The Road from Moneygall<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Brandon Books<\/a>
\nJune 2010
\n288 pages
\nISBN: 9780863224065 (hb); 9780863224133 (pb)<\/p>\n

Steve MacDonogh<\/strong> (1949-2010), Editorial Director<\/p>\n

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A unique exploration of the president\u2019s Irish ancestral origins.<\/em><\/p>\n

In his presidential election acceptance speech, Barack Obama<\/a> evoked a story of great change in America, and an America made up of many strands. In this book it is the strand of his own Irish background and ancestry that tells a story of emigration to escape hunger and of the struggle to build new lives in the land of opportunity.<\/p>\n

“Our family\u2019s story is one that spans miles and generations; races and realities,” Barack Obama has said. “It\u2019s the story of farmers and soldiers; city workers and single moms. It takes place in small towns and good schools, in Kansas and Kenya, on the shores of Hawaii and the streets of Chicago. It\u2019s a varied and unlikely journey, but one that\u2019s held together by the same simple dream. And that is why it\u2019s American.”<\/p>\n

But it is an Irish story, too. Falmouth Kearney, Obama\u2019s great-great-great-grandfather, was born in Moneygall<\/a>, County Offaly<\/a> in 1831, lived as a child through the apocalyptic famine years, and left a decimated, devastated country for America in 1850, aged 19. Here we learn for the first time the story of the Kearney family, of the Ireland they came from and the state of County Offaly in the dreadful famine years.<\/p>\n

We learn, too, of how two students met in 1960 and married and had a child: Ann Dunham from Wichita, Kansas, a direct descendant of Falmouth Kearney, and Barack Obama, Sr., a Kenyan from Nyang\u2019oma Kogelo, Nyanza Province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Barack Obama: The Road from Moneygall Brandon Books June 2010 288 pages ISBN: 9780863224065 (hb); 9780863224133 (pb) Steve MacDonogh (1949-2010), Editorial Director A unique exploration of the president\u2019s Irish ancestral origins. In his presidential election acceptance speech, Barack Obama evoked a story of great change in America, and an America made up of many strands. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,1245,11,28,459,8,17],"tags":[9356,246,9357],"class_list":["post-20125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-biography","category-books","category-europe","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","tag-brandon-books","tag-ireland","tag-steve-macdonogh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}