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Date Posted: 16:28:11 02/08/02 Fri
Author: Howard Cosell, still wants Rob to change the color of the visited links to red
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Does this mean he could be related to Tom O'?????

Muhammad O'Ali? Boxer's Roots Traced to Ireland

Friday, Feb. 8, 2002
DUBLIN (Reuters) - It's official -- boxing legend Muhammad Ali has Irish roots, Irish genealogists said on Friday.

Researchers at the Clare Heritage Centre in southwest Ireland said they have evidence that a great grandfather of the three-times world champion hailed from the county town of Ennis, close to the west coast.

Antoinette O'Brien, a genealogist at the center, told Reuters that Ali's great grandfather, Abe Grady, emigrated to the United States from County Clare in the 1860s, settled in Kentucky and married an African-American woman.

Their son also married an African-American, and one of that couple's daughters, Odessa Grady, married Cassius Clay in the 1930s. They settled in Louisville, Kentucky where their son, also called Cassius, was born in 1942.

The younger Cassius changed his name to Muhammad Ali when he converted to the Nation of Islam after winning the world heavyweight title against Sonny Liston in 1964.

"Birth records don't go back far enough to confirm Abe's birth but we've established that Abe's father John -- Ali's great-great grandfather -- had a house in Ennis in 1855," O'Brien said.

"There's no doubt that Abe was Ali's great grandfather. Based on evidence from the U.S. we're led to believe he was from Ennis and that his father was called John Grady. At that time there was only one John Grady living in Ennis."

The research was carried out for an Irish television company making a program to mark the 30th anniversary of Ali's visit to Ireland in 1972, when he fought Al "Blue" Lewis at Dublin's Croke Park stadium.

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