Joe Biden, the 46th president of the United States, will begin a five-day visit to the island in Belfast next Tuesday and it got me thinking about previous visits to Belfast by US presidents. There haven’t been many, and you might be hard pushed to name them all, but each have been important in their own way, some more than others, and generally they have all been dominated by one issue; peace for Northern Ireland.

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