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There's No One as Irish as Barack O'Bama

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Honors Colloquium: "Race, Identity and Medical Genomics in the Obama Age"

"There's No One as Irish as Barack O'Bama" is a humorous folk song written in 2008 by the Irish band Hardy Drew and the Nancy Boys, and set to a tune derived from a traditional air. The song celebrates the Irish ancestry of the President of the United States, Barack Obama. The song was a minor hit in the Irish Charts, peaking at Number 24 in November 2008.