{"id":295260,"date":"2026-02-13T02:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T02:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/295260\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T02:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T02:19:08","slug":"why-dont-we-showcase-ireland-properly-on-st-patricks-day-by-bringing-dignitaries-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/295260\/","title":{"rendered":"Why don&#8217;t we showcase Ireland properly on St Patrick&#8217;s Day, by bringing dignitaries here?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">John Costello, former Fine Gael taoiseach, penned a memorandum after he became the first Irish head of government to visit the White House on St Patrick\u2019s Day in 1956.\u202f \u201cIt is impossible to visit America, certainly at the time of the Saint Patrick\u2019s Day celebrations, and retain any sense that Ireland is a small unimportant island,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIt is not.\u201d\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The pride in his statement belies the inferiority complex of an adolescent nation, merely 30 years old at that time, still finding its feet on the world stage. The reluctance to let go of the narrative of a \u201csmall, unimportant island\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Costello, former Fine Gael taoiseach, penned a memorandum after he became the first Irish head of government&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,63762],"class_list":["post-295260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-st-patricks-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}