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As scripted lines go, it was neatly delivered and raised a laugh among the guests in the room, with Ireland’s ambassador to the United States, Geraldine Byrne Nason, in attendance at the host’s table. “I don’t think that we told you but Doug and I decided after our last visit that you would become our new couples friends,” she said before highlighting the historical depths of the relationship between the two countries.
“Then in the 19th century, Frederick Douglas found refuge in Ireland when we fled slavery. Historians among us will know that when he went to Ireland, it was the first time that he fully felt like a man because of the kinship and the dignity that he received in Ireland. “Under your leadership Ireland has hosted one of the highest per capita populations of Ukrainian refugees, a testament to the generosity and kindness of the Irish people. I commend you for hosting in your own home a refugee who left days after the invasion began.
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