{"id":401066,"date":"2026-04-16T05:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/401066\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T05:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:26:09","slug":"peter-flanagan-from-obama-to-biden-ireland-loves-to-claim-a-us-president-with-some-exceptions-of-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/401066\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Flanagan: From Obama to Biden, Ireland loves to claim a US president \u2013 with some exceptions, of course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Joe Biden may just be the last US leader to wear his Irish heritage with such pride\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Barack Obama enjoys a glass of Guinness alongside his wife Michelle Obama in his ancestral home of Moneygall in 2011. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/dd568e1b-d958-4d79-a546-04772506643b.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Barack Obama enjoys a glass of Guinness alongside his wife Michelle Obama in his ancestral home of Moneygall in 2011. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">For the avoidance of doubt: Donald Trump is Scottish American, not Irish American.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">His mother, Mary Ann MacLeod, was born on the Isle of Lewis off the coast of Scotland in 1930. She grew up speaking Gaelic as her first language and didn\u2019t learn English until she started school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Biden may just be the last US leader to wear his Irish heritage with such pride Barack&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5456,969,61,60,5455,43],"class_list":["post-401066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-barack-obama","tag-donald-trump","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-joe-biden","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401066","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=401066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}