When you think of JD Vance, the first thing that might come to mind is his role as the author of the best-selling memoir Hillbilly Elegy and his rise as a prominent conservative figure. However, what ...

To understand me, you must understand that I am a Scots-Irish hillbilly at heart,' and his Irish roots were mentioned when Taoiseach Micheál Martin visited Washington last week ...

His happiest times came when he stayed with his maternal grandparents. “Home” was with his grandparents (“Mamaw” – pronounced ...

Vance's ancestors emigrated from Ireland, as he mentioned in his famous 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy. 'To understand me, you must understand that I am a Scots-Irish hillbilly at heart,' he wrote.

Young, ambitious, ideological, and with an apparent chip on his shoulder about establishment intellectuals, Vance brings to ...

European leaders, still reeling from vice-president JD Vance’s frank but cautionary speech at the Munich Security Conference, ...

James David Vance, who became an Ohio Senator in 2023 ... and as the author of Hillbilly Elegy. His early years saw him in the Marine Corps as a military journalist, followed by studies at ...

In a speech to allies and in that infamous Oval Office row, the vice-president came out punching - but what is he fighting ...