Greetings from Ireland — Presidential postcards from the Emerald Isle

JFK, Nixon, Bush, Reagan, Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump — ahead of Joe Biden’s arrival next week, RAY RYAN looks back at some highlights of previous visits to Ireland of US presidents

Then US president John F Kennedy's motorcade through St Patrick's Street in Cork on June 27, 1963. JFK's visit was the first of many trips to Ireland by serving US presidents and Joe Biden will become the ninth office-holder to make the trip next week. File picture: Robert Knudsen/White House/JFK Library, Boston 

Midges, minders, and mugshots are among the many lasting memories of the visits made to Ireland over the past 60 years by presidents of the United States.

Joe Biden even claimed in Washington last year that the Irish are the only people in the world who are nostalgic for the future.