{"id":47325,"date":"2016-06-04T23:57:18","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T23:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47325"},"modified":"2018-03-17T19:59:28","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T19:59:28","slug":"the-greatest-muhammad-ali-was-very-proud-of-his-irish-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47325","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest, Muhammad Ali, was very proud of his Irish roots"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Greatest, Muhammad Ali, was very proud of his Irish roots<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Irish Central<\/a>
\n2016-06-04<\/p>\n

Niall O’Dowd<\/strong><\/a>, Founder<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nMuhammad Ali<\/a> arrives at Turnpike Road in Ennis, County Clare<\/a>, the location of the birthplace of his great grandfather Abe O’Grady, with his wife Yolanda (lonnie) right, in 2009. Photo by: Photocall Ireland\/Eamonn Farrell<\/a>\/RollingNews.ie<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The death of boxing legend Muhammad Ali<\/a> at 74 from Parkinson\u2019s<\/a> will bring back many glorious memories of the greatest athlete of our times.<\/p>\n

At his height Ali was the most graceful, talented and brilliant heavyweight boxers who ever stepped inside the ropes.<\/p>\n

Though incapacitated by Parkinson’s in later life, he always managed to retain the star power and unique presence that always distinguishes the greatest…<\/p>\n

…Ali was more than a boxer of course, he was a fighter who refused to become cannon fodder in the Vietnam War<\/a> the greatest mistaken war America entered until the invasion of Iraq<\/a>. He was also a poet, a showman, a lover of many women, a devout Muslim, simply a legend.<\/p>\n

Ali’s stance to end the Vietnam War when he refused to be drafted cost us the best years of his sporting life. He came back still a brilliant boxer, but the man who could float like a butterfly could never quite recover that greatness.<\/p>\n

Still the fights with Joe Frazier<\/a> the\u201d rope a dope<\/a>\u201d that saw him defeat George Foreman<\/a> in Zaire<\/a> in the \u201cRumble in the Jungle<\/a>\u201d will forever enshrine his name in history.<\/p>\n

The astonishing fact that he had Irish roots, being descended from Abe Grady, an Irishman from Ennis, County Clare<\/a> only became known later in life…<\/p>\n