The war in Ukraine will be high on the agenda as the U.S. President meets with Irish leaders in Dublin on Thursday
After spending most of a day on a whirlwind countryside tour of his ancestry, President Joe Biden is turning back to diplomacy on Thursday, with an address to the Irish parliament and meetings with the country’s leaders, with Ukraine high on the agenda.
Biden will also meet with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, Ireland’s prime minister, before a speech to parliament in which “he’ll be reflecting on the long, close and shared history between the United States and Ireland,” said Amanda Sloat, the National Security Council’s senior Europe director. In the meetings with leaders, Ireland’s continued support of the U.S.-led effort to help Ukraine in the war against Russia will be a focal point, particularly on humanitarian and security assistance..
According to the Irish Family History Centre, Biden “is among the most `Irish’ of all U.S. Presidents.” Ten of his 16 great-great-grandparents were from the Emerald Isle. Biden is particularly fond of quoting Irish poets, especially Seamus Heaney. Heaney’s widow was expected to attend the address at parliament Thursday.
Biden visited in 2016, near the end of his second term as Obama’s vice president, with a much larger contingent of his family, including all of his grandchildren. This time he was accompanied by just his sister and son. His wife, Jill, remained in Washington.
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