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    I know that many people here are not fans of Joe Biden but the Irish are very happy with his election. While I think people can have their own views I would appreciate that this thread is not going to become a battleground for pro and anti Trump supporters. There are other threads for that on here.

    Joe Biden is very proud of his Irish ancestry and has visited many time. He has already been invited to Ireland as President of the US.

    Ireland has always had a close relationship with the US and now with Britain leaving the EU hopes to be a bridge between the US and the EU.

    He was a founding member of the Friends of Ireland group, a cross-party body which dedicated itself to the delivery of peace in the North, along with Ted Kennedy and then speaker of the House of Representatives, Tip O'Neill.
    His quoting of the late Seamus Heaney’s The Cure at Troy following his election chimed around the world.

    "This is our moment," Biden said, "to make hope and history rhyme."

    He has used that phrase on several occasions.




    https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinio...-40211201.html

    ‘Try and keep me out’: Biden officially invited to visit Ireland
    Coveney says Covid-safe options for St Patrick’s Day visit to US being explored

    US president Joe Biden said “try and keep me out” when officially invited to Ireland, Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said.

    In an interview with CNN on Friday, in which Mr Martin discussed the possibility of becoming the first head of government to meet with the new president, he revealed that he had already asked him to come back to the home of his ancestors.
    “Both of us are very keen to cement that very historic relationship between the United States of America and Ireland which goes back through the ages now,” Mr Martin said.
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/irel...land-1.4465741











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    Taoiseach, Micheál Martin discusses Joe Biden's Irish roots, Ireland's deadly covid surge and repenting the past horrors of Ireland's mother and baby homes.Source: CNN

    https://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/20...baby-homes.cnn
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    The man doesn't remember who he is and where he is most of the time.

    Doubt there is much RAM capacity left in his head to think for Ireland.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Linebacker View Post
    The man doesn't remember who he is and where he is most of the time.

    Doubt there is much RAM capacity left in his head to think for Ireland.
    Plenty of other threads to post for being anti Biden. I would hope this thread is more about the close connections between Ireland and the US.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grace O'Malley View Post
    Plenty of other threads to post for being anti Biden. I would hope this thread is more about the close connections between Ireland and the US.
    Biden is such a dementia patient he thinks he is Irish rather than Anglo-Saxon. I mean an extreme minority of Ireland is Anglo-Saxon but god damn he is plastic paddy if I ever saw one. You are plastic paddy too. Many Americans are plastic paddies.

    Americans are ignorant of the world so they think Ireland is more important than it is historically and in world affairs. Also, Woodrow Wilson had an Anti-German clamp down starting in 1917 so some Germans and half German half Irish people , in America, delusionally identify as 'Irish'.

    Few so called 'white identities' are allowed to celebrate their heritage on a mass scaled such as Saint Patrick's day so that contributes too.

    Australian plastic paddies , like you, exist due to a long history such as Ned Kelly. American culture and Australian culture are similar. You are more knowledgeable about 'Ireland' than the standard plastic paddy but if you gave me your raw dna file I'm sure I would find out you are Scottish or English but you are able to statistically manipulate your results for political purposes.


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    Biden is probably slightly more Irish than me. Biden is also British too and Biden is an English name not Irish.

    Americans seem to have a particularly emotionally romantic viewpoint when it comes to Ireland, and fair play for that I guess.

    Clinton was instrumental in the peace process, hope Biden can be as positive an influence

    I suspect though that Biden is more of a front, traditional old stock American to win back white working class voters. I can't him being physically able to last a whole term looks like he might collapse at any moment

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    It's much more valid for White Americans to search for their European ethnic roots, rather than taking pride in their skin color, so overall I find it cool that his person can give an uplift for people of Irish ancestry. Identity politics has its place to a certain level, never thought either of the two radical approaches (overemphasizing it or completely downplay it) are too positive.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Davystayn View Post
    Biden is probably slightly more Irish than me. Biden is also British too and Biden is an English name not Irish.
    Probably true

    Quote Originally Posted by DavyStayn
    Americans seem to have a particularly emotionally romantic viewpoint when it comes to Ireland, and fair play for that I guess.
    I have Irish hiberno-norman name but unlike most Americans in my position I turn to science. I know the Irish are supposed to be celtic, yet, not related to the Germanics but the science is telling me different. Sorry, allow me to get nerdy or boffin-like with G25 for a minute. My Irish name is 'Kevin' and these are my 'Irish-American' results :

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    Quote Originally Posted by DavyStayn
    Clinton was instrumental in the peace process, hope Biden can be as positive an influence
    Clinton is Scots-Irish or lowland Scottish Ullans but if push came to shove would probably identify with Ireland more than Scotland that is how delusional many Americans are.

    Quote Originally Posted by DavyStayn
    I suspect though that Biden is more of a front, traditional old stock American to win back white working class voters. I can't him being physically able to last a whole term looks like he might collapse at any moment
    Good insight .

    Anyway ,everyone kiss me I'm 'Irish' :


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    Quote Originally Posted by Davystayn View Post
    Biden is probably slightly more Irish than me. Biden is also British too and Biden is an English name not Irish.

    Americans seem to have a particularly emotionally romantic viewpoint when it comes to Ireland, and fair play for that I guess.

    Clinton was instrumental in the peace process, hope Biden can be as positive an influence

    I suspect though that Biden is more of a front, traditional old stock American to win back white working class voters. I can't him being physically able to last a whole term looks like he might collapse at any moment
    It's all about being disingenuous and larpy about 1776. Even with all immigration going on, ancestry from Britain remain among the largest (if not the largest one there) still. That, plus the anti-white narrative, and given Irish people's contentious history with Britain, they sort of fill a pseudo aggrieved minority position, so it is as cool to claim being one of them as it would be claiming being a Cherokee and/or other Amerindian type.

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