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 ...

WASHINGTON — "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 ...

Key moments of US President John F. Kennedy's historic visit to Ireland in June 1963 were captured and preserved by British ...

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.

DUBLIN — President Biden stood in a lavishly decorated room at the Irish president’s residence on Thursday, declaring just how comfortable he feels during this visit to his ancestral homeland.

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.

John F. Kennedy, 1963. The first U.S. president to visit Ireland while in office, John F. Kennedy “was jubilantly received by the Irish people,” according to Nathan Mannion, senior curator at ...

The 46th US president – a proud Irish-American – will visit Belfast to celebrate a quarter-century of peace under the Good Friday Agreement before travelling to Ireland, Andrew Feinberg writes ...

US President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation declaring March "Irish-American Heritage Month". In the proclamation, he ...

Remarkably, more than half of U.S. presidents – 23 of 45 men – boast Irish ancestors, from the seventh president, Andrew Jackson, through Joe Biden. Start the day smarter. Get all the news you ...

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’s Day, the ...