In Ireland, Biden is on a diplomatic and deeply personal mission

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This may be hyperbole, but the only thing President Biden quotes more than the great Irish poets is the wisdom of his Irish American mother.

"Today, I'm Catherine Eugenia Finnegan Biden's son," Biden said at a 2022 St. Patrick's Day event. "That's who I am."

Many modern American presidents have claimed Irish ancestry — from John Fitzgerald Kennedy to Barack Obama (or should we say "O'Bama"?), who has Irish relatives on his mom's side. But none has been quite as forward about it as Biden. The nation's second Irish-Catholic president will go to Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Tuesday and to the Republic of Ireland on Wednesday. He heads back to the U.S. on Friday.

The trip is part diplomacy and part homecoming.

"As we Irish say, that's no malarkey," Biden said last year during an Ohio factory tour. "That's a fact."

It's not entirely a fact that "malarkey" — one of Biden's frequently used terms — is Irish, but Biden attributes many features of his personality to being Irish-American.