Bill Clinton: The U.S. Ambassador to Ireland?
According to Howard LaFranchi, Staff writer / December 7, 2012 of the Washington POST, Bill Clinton loves Ireland, and Ireland loves him, but fresh Beltway rumors are suggesting that he might even...
View ArticleObama Voted History's Third Greatest Political Leader With Irish Ancestry,...
Barack Obama is one of history's three greatest political..."/> , May 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Barack Obama is one of history's three greatest political leaders with Irish ancestry, according to an...
View ArticleObama Voted History's Third Greatest Political Leader With Irish Ancestry,...
SANTA MONICA, California, May 24, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Barack Obama is one of history's three greatest political leaders with Irish ancestry, according to an international poll. John F Kennedy,...
View ArticlePaul Ryan's charms fall flat in Irish homeland
GRAIGUENAMANAGH (Reuters) - In the land of his ancestors, Paul Ryan's Irish charm is failing him. Despite his name, Roman Catholic faith and immigrant-made-good family history, the Irish half of the...
View ArticleA Clinton returns to Belfast as tensions simmer
BELFAST (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton will travel to Northern Ireland on Friday for one of her last foreign trips as U.S. Secretary of State, lending support to a fragile peace that was one of the...
View ArticleEmbassy Row: Ambassador doings in Japan, Ireland and Domincan Republic
Facebook Follow @washtimes Will there be any constitutional amendments within the next 25 years? Login to Vote View results The Irish feel betrayed, the Japanese are honored and gay advocates are...
View ArticleWhat Irish America could teach the world about putting the diaspora to work
The US State Department’s prolific communications department is proof of the influence that the United States aims to have on world affairs. It issues a huge volume of comments every week on everything...
View Article£876,000 for university Peace chair
Politicians who helped boost the peace process in Ireland have been honoured by a university engaged in learning the lessons of the decades of violence. The University of Ulster announced funding of a...
View ArticleFrenemies: A Love Story
Boston TO paraphrase a sometime-friend of my father: “There they go again.” Twice in their debate on Wednesday, President Obama and Mitt Romney brought up the names of my father, Tip O’Neill, and...
View ArticleMajor ‘refused’ to speak to Clinton after Adams got US visa
Tim O’Brien British prime minister John Major refused to speak to US president Bill Clinton for weeks after the US granted a visa to Gerry Adams in 1994, the Parnell Summer School in Co Wicklow was...
View ArticleSummer school on Kennedy dynasty opens in Wexford
CONOR KANE THE INAUGURAL Kennedy Summer School got under way yesterday close to the ancestral home in Co Wexford of the famous Irish-American political dynasty. Robert Kennedy III ��� a grandson of...
View ArticleFirst among equals
123 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with Burmese pro-democracy opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi this week. PHOTOGRAPH: GETTY IMAGESClinton having tea in Belfast in 1995 with Joyce McCartan (in...
View ArticleSteelers owner Dan Rooney is immersed in duties as U.S. ambassador
DUBLIN -- In Dan Rooney's front hall, there is a painting of Native Americans setting up camp besides a river, sometime in the 1700s. It's an elegaic piece of art that anyone with a passion for...
View ArticleCadets who moved JFK in Ireland offer final salute
For hours the young cadets waited, standing at attention by the freshly dug grave - a striking tableau in their crisp green tunics and brown breeches, rifles by their sides. Fifty years later, they...
View ArticleA visit that changed us forever
JFK called his visit to Ireland in June 1963 “the happiest days of my life”. As his sister, Jean Kennedy Smith, recalls in these pages, he watched film footage of the homecoming over and over again....
View ArticleConstant media scrutiny means there can be no more heroes as of old
The Christian Science Monitor asked somewhat bemusedly in a recent article, “Why is John F Kennedy still so popular?” In Ireland, at least until recently, that would have been a very stupid question....
View ArticleObama hints immigration reform at shamrock ceremony
US president Barack Obama said that the achievement of the many Irish in America was another reason why his administration needed “to build an immigration system for the 21st century.” Speaking at...
View ArticleIrish town set for 50th anniversary of John F Kennedy visit
As Northern Ireland prepares for the visit by President Obama and the G8 leaders later this month, a town in the Republic of Ireland is getting ready to commemorate another presidential visit. Fifty...
View ArticleWoodrow Wilson: A brief portrait of the 28th President of the United States
One hundred years ago on 4 March 1913 Thomas Woodrow Wilson, from Staunton in Virginia, was about to begin his term as the 28th president of the United States of America. Wilson served for two terms as...
View ArticlePaul Ryan's Ancestral Hometown In Ireland Mostly Rooting For Obama
* Romney's No.2 fails to impress in town ancestors fled * Locals have soft spot for honorary Irishman Barack Obama * Candidates target mid-west Irish Catholics in U.S. election By Conor Humphries...
View ArticleThe Last King of Ireland
DUBLIN — Oscar Wilde still lounges, louche-like, on a boulder in Merrion Square. As always, the Liffey, a river crossed by bridges named for playwrights and patriots, lumbers its way to the sea....
View ArticleDallas Bishop Farrell took to heart JFK’s call to change world
Kevin Farrell was a 16-year-old swooning in the streets of Dublin when John F. Kennedy came to Ireland in June 1963. The president charmed the Emerald Isle nation, quoting its most famous playwright,...
View ArticleBoehner hosts Obama, Ireland's prime minister for lunch
WASHINGTON -- In a nod to bipartisan tradition and St. Patrick, President Obama and House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) donned emerald ties to hear (and sing) a bit of Irish folk music during a...
View ArticleWhen lineage draws you to the Emerald Isle
By the time my long-haul flight found the tarmac at Dublin airport my sister Cathie had spent a day exploring the city and clearly felt very at home. She greeted me with the news that she'd discovered...
View ArticleUS election race closer than our distorted view suggests
NOEL WHELAN The pro-Democrat disposition of the Irish skews our view of the presidential campaign EARLIER THIS year, to illustrate his argument that RT�� had a liberal bias, Minister for Transport Leo...
View ArticleDallas bishop recalls seeing JFK in Ireland
Kevin Farrell was a 16-year-old swooning in the streets of Dublin when John F. Kennedy came to Ireland in June 1963. The president charmed the Emerald Isle nation, quoting its most famous playwright,...
View ArticleBill Clinton: US ambassador to Ireland? Rumors catch fire
Is Ireland big enough for Bill Clinton? The chatter about what Mr. Clinton might do next has often tended toward the grandiose. In the past, there was talk of making an exception just this once and...
View ArticleRonald Reagan’s Irish ancestors found on historic Morpeth Roll
The signatures of the great-great grandfather and great-uncle of former US President Ronald Reagan have been found on a pre-famine roll which is now open to the public. Both men, called Thomas Reagan,...
View ArticlePaul Ryan’s charms fall flat in Irish homeland
In the land of his ancestors, Paul Ryan's Irish charm is failing him. Despite his name, Roman Catholic faith and immigrant-made-good family history, the Irish half of the Republican ticket is failing...
View ArticleReagan ancestor signed Morpeth Roll
US president Ronald Reagan's political zeal has been traced through the family ancestry as far back as pre-famine Ireland. Historians have discovered his great-great grandfather Thomas was among the...
View ArticleJust months after ‘finest honor guard’ moved JFK on Ireland visit, they...
For hours the young cadets waited, standing at attention by the freshly dug grave — a striking tableau in their crisp green tunics and brown breeches, rifles by their sides. Fifty years later, they...
View ArticlePresidents On Vacation: Ice Cream, Golf, Hunting Elephants, Segway Tours And...
It's not just people like us who like vacations. The leaders of the free world have also been known to enjoy some ice cream at the beach. Or a few rounds of golf. Or a good elephant shoot. Or, more...
View ArticleDan Rooney resigns as Irish ambassador
Dan Rooney will resign as U.S. ambassador to Ireland today after more than three years serving as President Barack Obama's top diplomat in Dublin. The resignation, which has been expected for some...
View ArticleHillary Clinton visits Belfast after outbreak of riots
BELFAST (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton will travel to Northern Ireland on Friday to lend her support to the British province's fragile peace, the frailty of which was underlined by overnight rioting on...
View ArticleHoward Berman Secretary of State Candidacy Potential Decried By Progressive...
WASHINGTON -- The progressive advocacy group Demand Progress is taking a stand against Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), amid rumors that he is being considered as a potential replacement for Secretary of...
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