Moneygall report: The President goes to the pub with Cousin Henry (Henry VIII)

"What a thrill," President says of the visit to his ancestral village... (Photos at Obama Food-O-Rama)

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It was the moment everyone in the village of Moneygall was waiting for on Monday afternoon: After greeting a crowd of thousands, visiting the home of his great-great-great-grandfather, Falmouth Kearney, and stopping in to a small shop on Main Street, President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama entered Ollie Hayes pub at 3:45 PM local time, to huge cheers. They sipped Guinness with a crowd of about three dozen villagers, including many of Mr. Obama's distant relations--and his most locally famous Irish relative, 26-year-old Henry Healy, his eighth cousin, know in the village as King Henry VIII. (Above: The President and First Lady toast at the bar)
The pub, one of just two in the block-long village in County Offaly, is decorated with Obama memorabilia, including a faux bronze bust of the President that sits on the bar. 2008 campaign posters adorn the walls, as does a t-shirt encased in a picture frame with Mr. Obama's likeness, and the words "O'Bama's Irish Pub." A banner hung over the bar: "Welcome to Ireland!"
The President and First Lady were met with shouts of "welcome home" as they walked along Main Street and shook hands, but the minutes in Hayes' pub were the real homecoming, as they got to spend private time with their newly met relations. The President is related to three different families in the village: The Healys, the Donovans, and the Kearneys.
"You look a little like my grandfather," President Obama said to one man. "We got a family tree here and everything."
Mrs. Obama put her arm around cousin Henry, as they stood at the bar, and whispered to him. Healy is an accountant for a local plumbing firm, and his relationship to President Obama dates to 1761, when there was a marriage between Sarah Healy and Joseph Kearney, the great-great-grandfather of Falmouth Kearney. (Above: Healy at the bar with the President; Mrs. Obama is just out of the frame)
The President and First Lady posed for dozens of "family photos," both separately and together.
"Michelle, squeeze in here," President Obama said as he stood with one villager, before making brief formal remarks.
"What a thrill it is to be here," President Obama said. "There are millions of Irish Americans who trace their ancestry back to this beautiful island. Part of why this makes it so special is because the Irish influence on American culture is so powerful in the arts, in politics, in commerce."
At the conclusion, he said: "And with that let me have a pint."