It was really when President Barack Obama visited his ancestral family home in Moneygall, Co Offaly in 2011 that historians were encouraged to take a closer look at the American presidents with ...

But historians have also linked Ronald Reagan to the town of Ballyporeen, where his great grandfather once lived, and traced ...

His maternal great-great-great grandfather was Falmouth Kearney, who lived in Moneygall, Ireland. Obama was so excited to get in touch with his Irish heritage, he dropped by the tiny Irish town to ...