When the Taoiseach – Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin – presented President Donald Trump with a crystal bowl of shamrocks last week in the White House East Room in advance of St. Patrick ...

Most of the Irish American presidents have their roots in Co Tyrone and Co Antrim and come from a Protestant background in 19th-century Ulster. They generally settled in the south and west in the US.

"Remember, Joey, the best drop of blood in you is Irish," President Joe Biden said, quoting his grandfather. Such fierce ethnic pride from "the most Irish of all American presidents," as the ...

As US president Joe Biden ends his visit to Ireland, with many echoes of the Kennedy visit 60 years ago, it is timely to consider if he is the last of a tribe of liberal Irish-American politicians.

BELFAST – At the start of his three-day trip to the Emerald Isle this week, President Joe Biden saluted the Irish-American architect who designed the White House. "You know who founded and ...

It was a homecoming of sorts for perhaps the most Irish in a long line of Irish American presidents. Biden came with his son and his sister. He lingered at stops to soak in the atmosphere.

the most Irish of all the presidents”. This week, that “most Irish” American president is set to make his first pilgrimage to his family’s homeland since assuming office in 2021 ...

This may be hyperbole, but the only thing President Biden quotes more than the great Irish poets is the wisdom of his Irish American mother. "Today, I'm Catherine Eugenia Finnegan Biden's son ...

Ireland, in turn, has been a prized destination for American presidents. Ulysses S. Grant, who had recent Irish ancestry on his maternal side, became the first U.S. president to visit there ...