Tracing his family lineage, President Joe Biden received a rock star-like welcome Wednesday in this town in the Irish county where his mother’s family is from.
President Joe Biden greets people as he does a walkabout in Dundalk, Ireland, Wednesday, April 12, 2023.
Children were perched on the shoulders of adults, and some people stretched their hands as far as they could, hoping for the slightest bit of contact with Biden. He toured a food hall and later met up with some of his cousins at a pub.“It feels like home,” Biden said in remarks at Windsor Bar and Restaurant, where he reminisced about the values he said he learned from his parents. His sister Valerie and son Hunter sat in the front row of the small audience.
Biden gazed out at the water from the stone balcony of Carlingford Castle, which would have been the last Irish landmark that Owen Finnegan, Biden’s maternal great-great-grandfather, saw before sailing for New York in 1849. A wooden sign on the road heading to the castle welcomed “Cousin Joe.” Biden paid with a 50 euro note and gave a 10 euro tip to some of the workers who have special needs, McAteer said, adding that the president talked a lot about his Irish background.
Biden is spending three days in Ireland on his first visit back as president, with plans to meet with Ireland’s leaders, address the parliament in Dublin and attend a gala dinner on Thursday, and visit County Mayo, another ancestral area on the west coast of Ireland, on Friday before he flies back to Washington.He had visited in 2016, near the end of his term as U.S. vice president, with a much larger contingent of his family, including all of his grandchildren.
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