Les Obamas d'Irlande: des retombées pour un petit cousin!

Henry Healy et sa famille ont été en mesure de retracer les origines irlandaises de Barack Obama dont un lointain parent vivait à Moneygall. Si la campagne Obama ne s'est pas privée de photographier le Président buvant une Guiness avec sa famille irlandaise (beaucoup d'américains sont des descendants d'irlandais), cette dernière bénéficie largement de ses liens avec le premier Président noir des États-Unis. Vous vous souvenez peut-être de la chanson "There's no one as Irish as Barack Obama", populaire en 2008 et adaptée aussi pour la campagne 2012? Je vous laisse cette interprétation ici.
 

 "Still, in Moneygall, Healy is mostly considered the boy who made good. At a time when the rest of rural Ireland is struggling, the village is thriving thanks to post-Obama tourism. “He deserves any fame that he ever gets,” says James Treacy, the local plumber for whom Healy worked until last year—a man who has known Healy “since he was a wee boy.” The president’s cousin lives modestly with his mother and sister and spends most weekends with his childhood friends. “He doesn’t have big, squeaky shoes,” as Treacy puts it.

 But his newfound notoriety has some suggesting he would be a natural in the family business of politics. At Bewley’s Cafe on Grafton Street, Dublin’s main drag, Healy talks with ease about American current affairs, bringing up the recent elections of Irish-Americans Terry McAuliffe in Virginia’s gubernatorial race and Marty Walsh in Boston’s mayoral contest. And he certainly looks the part, wearing a gray suit, purple tie and white shirt, along with silver cufflinks in the shape of New Zealand’s north and south islands—a gift from a Kiwi contestant in an Irish diaspora beauty pageant held in County Kerry. (The day after we speak, Healy is competing himself—improbably—for the title of Ireland’s most stylish man.) Healy already lives the life of a quasi-politician in permanent campaign mode: He spends most of his time crisscrossing the island, promoting IrelandXO.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/11/letter-from-moneygall-obama-cousin-ireland-100418_Page2.html