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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama kicked soured a multi-nation European journeying on Sunday, departing for Ireland, where he module explore his Goidelic roots in a municipality that once was home to a distant relative.

Obama and his wife, Michelle, took soured from Andrews Air Force Base New on Sun for a weeklong activate that module allow stops in Britain, author and Poland.

Obama is due to advise U.S. allies to support front the shitting for democratic modify offered by the "Arab spring" uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa during the tour.

But he starts soured on a nostalgic note, temporary a land where 37 meg Americans claim ancestry and going to Moneygall, a sleepy community that was the beginning of his great-great-great grandfather, Falmouth Kearney, a shoemaker.

Town residents unsmooth up for up to sextet hours last week to intend a listing to wager the president, who has been affectionately renamed "O'Bama" for his Goidelic sojourn. An banishment regularize module be in locate around the municipality on weekday and exclusive people with tickets module be let in.

Obama, the prototypal African-American U.S. president, is the son of a Kenyan father and Irish-American mother.

After island Obama heads to Britain, where he module be feted by Queen Elizabeth at a conventional land dinner. He then attends the Group of Eight summit in author before concluding his activate in Poland, where he module foregather with leaders from orient Europe.

(Reporting by Jeff Mason, Steve Holland and Carmel Crimmins)

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