Last year, I had the opportunity to dig into Barack Obama's roots. Around last St. Patty's Day, Ancestry.com went out with the news that he was part-Irish. After that, I started hearing from members of the Irish media. Where exactly in Ireland did his family come from? That's what everyone wanted to know.
It took some elbow grease, but as I blogged last year, we were finally able to determine that Moneygall gets the bragging rights:
Finding Barack Obama's Irish Roots (click to see the tombstone that pointed me in the right direction)
That's why I was delighted to come across these videos: