As President Biden arrived in his ancestral homeland Tuesday, the country’s most prominent Irish American fully embraced the former even as he promoted the latter
Later he talked about how he is a proud Irishman even though his middle name, Robinette, and his last name have British origins. “So I don’t know what the hell is going on,” Biden joked.
Biden regularly quotes Irish poets, and his major speeches often cite passages from Seamus Heaney, William Butler Yeats or James Joyce. He says it was those poets whose work he recited to overcome a stutter as a boy. After his speech here in Belfast to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, the more personal portion of his visit was scheduled to begin in County Louth, the home of his Finnegan ancestors.He is planning on Friday to visit County Mayo, where his Blewitt ancestors are from and where he will deliver remarks about Irish Americans, describing their journey as not only a story of immigration but a reflection of the United States as a country of immigrants.
The president has also cited his Irish heritage in his approach to policies he views as discriminatory.“America has come a long way in addressing discrimination in the workplace since the days my ancestors faced ‘No Irish Need Apply’ signs,” he said in a 2008 speech calling for gender equity. “Yet discrimination today still exists.”
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