The following teaser is from the June 17, 2013 edition of the StatesmanJurnal.com.
What did Malia and Sasha Obama do on their summer vacation? They went to the library. In Ireland.
The little-seen, little-discussed Obama girls, now 14 and 11 respectively, are along for the ride with first lady Michelle Obama while the president is in Northern Ireland today and Tuesday meeting with other leaders of the G-8 industrial nations.
Soon after arriving in Belfast today, Michelle Obama introduced her husband before his speech to hundreds of students at the waterfront. Then she and her daughters left for Dublin, where they paid a visit to the Old Library at Trinity College for a presentation on the Obama family genealogy and the girls’ connection to Ireland.
The advance press releases issued last week by FLOTUS’ office only talks about what Mrs. O would be doing on the trip, and never mentioned her daughters. But they were front and center in the pictures, and in any case, they are the ones who are descended from Irish immigrants through the president’s maternal relatives in Kansas. (His great-great-great grandfather was a shoemaker in the tiny village of Moneygall, according to British and Irish media reports.)…
