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A Gettysburg Connection: Eisenhower and Commodore Barry

Most visits by US Presidents to Ireland have been ‘Irish vote’-related or homecoming trips to ancestral roots. Trips by Kennedy, Reagan, Obama, Clinton and Biden are cases in point. The visit in late August 1962 of Gettysburg’s most famous resident, former President, Dwight D. Eisenhower, was of another hue altogether. Eisenhower visited the town of Wexford on Ireland’s southeast coast to lay a wreath at the statue of Commodore William Barry, ‘t…
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Gettysburg Connection broke the news in Gettysburg, United States on Friday, January 9, 2026.
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