President Biden may have been born in Scranton, Pa., have spent a half-century in Washington and own two houses in Delaware, but this week, Ireland sounded like his true native land.
He looked out and addressed “all you American reporters” as he remarked on how much the Irish president’s home looks like the White House, suggesting he might as well stay in the Irish version.
Many here agreed. “You are one of us,” said Seán Ó Fearghaíl, speaker of the lower house of the Irish Parliament, as he introduced Biden for a speech to Parliament on Thursday. “In this moment the world needs Ireland and the United States and our limitless imaginations,” he said. He also has recounted on the trip how his Grandpa Finnegan would often tell him: “Remember, Joey, the best drop of blood in you is Irish.”He noted that his grandfather, despite his pride in his Irish blood, had never actually been to Ireland.
“I said all this not to wax poetic about bygone days, but because of the story of my family’s journey. Those who left and those who stayed is emblematic of the stories of so many Irish and American families, not just Irish American families.”
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