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Sarah Palin’s Irish heritage

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Published Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 1:45 PM
Updated Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 2:15 PM
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Sarah Palin deals extensively with her Irish Catholic roots in her new autobiography "Going Rogue."

Her mother Sally Ann Sheeran was “born into a large educated Irish Catholic family in Utah,” she reveals in her book. She was descended from Roscommon immigrants.

Her grandfather, Clement Sheeran, was a mediator for General Electric and “was wild about Notre Dame,” she remembers

“Grandpa was witty and poetic,” Palin remembers, “like a graying Ronald Reagan. He loved to entertain us with silly poems and Irish songs and sayings.”

At Catholic school she remembers arguing with nuns over catechism and a particular nun who tried to teach her to write the letter E which she had difficulty with.

Her mother made the switch from Irish Catholicism after a friend urged her to attend a new evangelical church in Anchorage. “There Mom found a depth of spirituality she had been seeking,” Palin writes.

Not long after Palin began attending Sunday school at an Assembly of God church She attended a youth Bible camp in Alaska and "I made the conscious decision that summer to put my life in my Creator’s hands."

Her siblings and her left the Catholic faith and were baptized together in a freezing Alaska lake by Pastor Paul Riley.

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Posted by CaeteyChu on Dec 03, 2009, 08:40 PM EST
It's a terrible shame Sarah Palin and her family left the Catholic faith. I pray to God and St. Anthony that she and her family return to the Catholic Church.
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Posted by Debmarie on Nov 28, 2009, 07:28 AM EST
For all of you over in Ireland who still think the Democrats here are for the people....you need to look a little harder. They are all about bigger gov't and controlling the people now...it isn't like it was 40 or 50 years ago. Thank God for Sarah Palin...no, she isn't a "silver tongued devil" like Obama....she is HONEST, is a true Christian, and has a heck of a better decision making track record than our President. She did wonders in Alaska...Obama is making a shambles of our country.
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Posted by Debmarie on Nov 28, 2009, 07:23 AM EST
I love Sarah..and wish she hadn't changed from her Catholic roots....but...it is those roots where she got her strength!
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Posted by irishwxman on Nov 27, 2009, 08:23 PM EST
Keep dreaming eiregirl.
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Posted by eiregirl on Nov 27, 2009, 08:00 PM EST
Yeah, Ms. Palin is great craic. She's about as much craic as a bag of hammers. You are all mad about finding out US politicians Irishness. Do we care, I don't for one. She has not association to Ireland, and we should all be greatful for that. Let's move on to more pressing issues. Obama will get elected next time around anyway, so Palin can go and tent to signing books, if she can remember why.
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Posted by irishwxman on Nov 27, 2009, 04:28 PM EST
What disturbs me the most about some of these comments and the hidden message in this article is, it has been reported on this website more than once that Irish researcher sought and found remains of Obama's ancestors...a heritage Obama really has no interest in whatsoever. In fact he met an Irish girl in Washington and couldn't even recognize her brogue accent. He is ignorant to anyting Irish. Yet this website went out of its way to let everyone know of Obama's Irish roots, yet when Sarah Palin makes it known of her Irish roots, and her Irish pride, she is attacked for it. So, since when do people get to pick who they want boasting about their Irish pride? It's OK for Obama to have Irish roots, but not Sarah Palin? That is ridiculous. To quote the Dixie Chicks, "I am ashamed that our president is a descendant of Ireland."






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