The US president celebrated his Irish heritage and made a passionate defence of democracy in a speech to a joint sitting of the Oireachtas – both houses of parliament – in Dublin yesterday evening. “Tá mé seo abhaile,” Biden told the chamber in Irish. “I’m at home.” He added: “I just wish I could stay longer.”
In a wide-ranging address, the political highlight of his four-day visit to the island of Ireland, the president lauded American and Irish “revolutionary spirit” and cast the two nations as allies in a battle for shared values.
“As we meet these struggles they cast a shadow on our world,” he said. “The struggle between the rights of many and desires of few, between liberty and oppression, and, I know I get criticised for saying this around the world, between democracy and autocracy.”
The US was “shaped by Ireland”, which had been a historical partner, he said. “As nations we’ve known hardship and division, but we have also found solace in each other.”
In what some may view as a tacit rebuke to Downing Street, he said the UK “should be working closer” with the Irish government to support Northern Ireland, where power-sharing collapsed last year.
The reference jarred with other statements supportive of Rishi Sunak’s post-Brexit Windsor framework and efforts to revive Stormont.
Biden said the US and Ireland embodied “possibilities”, in a speech that at times appeared to channel campaign-style rhetoric.
He is expected to confirm another run for the White House soon. However, the 80-year-old also acknowledged his age. “I’m at the end of my career. Not the beginning.”
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