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Dublin, Ireland (CNN) -- President Barack Obama reconnected with his Irish roots Monday, visiting the village of Moneygall, believed to be the birthplace of one of his great-great-great-grandfathers.
The stop came on the first day of Obama's six-day, four-country European tour, which will also take the president to Britain, France and Poland.
Earlier in the day, Obama met with Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny. The president praised Ireland for its work on issues of peace, security and human rights, and cited Ireland's contribution to an agreement that brought peace to Northern Ireland.
"Ireland punches above its weight," Obama said. "All of that makes a huge difference around the world.
"I wanted to just express to the Irish people ... how inspired we have been by the progress that has been made in Northern Ireland," he said. "It speaks to the possibilities of peace and people and longstanding struggles being able to reimagine their relationships."
Kenny welcomed the American president.
"The Irish people have been waiting for this visit," he said.
The president planted a tree -- an upright Irish oak -- in a park with trees planted by former Presidents John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton.
During his European tour, Obama will "reaffirm the importance of our relations with our European allies," particularly the British, White House spokesman Jay Carney said.
The president will talk about ways the United States and European allies can cooperate on issues such as international economics, Afghanistan and Libya, Carney said.

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Obama also plans to attend the G8 meeting in France of leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States. The president will talk about "ways that we can work together to enhance economic development in Egypt and Tunisia," where democratic movements dislodged authoritarian rulers, Carney said.
During his visit to Moneygall, the president was greeted by enthusiastic crowds lining the streets despite occasional rain showers. He also briefly ducked into a local pub to sip a Guinness beer.
"It tastes so much better here than it does in the states," Obama joked. "You're keeping all the best stuff here."
"I just want you to know the president pays his bar tab," he added.
"The Irish influence on American culture has been so powerful," he said. "For me to make such a personal connection like this ... is spectacular."
Henry Healy, one of Moneygall's many residents claiming to be a distant relative of America's first African-American president, told CNN she was hoping to hoist a beer with the town's favorite son.
"We knew that the president had interest in his Irish roots," Healy said. "He expressed while he was seeking the Democratic nomination that he did want to visit the little village in Ireland and have a pint."
Situated in central Ireland between Dublin and Limerick, Moneygall underwent a patriotic facelift in preparation for the presidential visit. American flags were hung in front of homes and stores.
Genealogists at Ancestry.com first shed light on Obama's Irish roots when he was campaigning for the presidency. They traced his Irish ancestry several generations to a fellow by the name of Fulmoth Kearney, the president's great-great-great-grandfather on his mother's side, who immigrated from Moneygall to Ohio in 1850.
Maybe it was that "luck o' the Irish" -- or perhaps support from some of the 40 million Irish-Americans -- that helped Obama win the presidential nomination.

"It never hurts to be a little Irish when you're running for the presidency of the United States of America," Obama joked during a campaign stop in 2008.