Does Ireland use its historical diaspora for soft power diplomacy?

For example the current Prime Ministers of: UK, Canada, Australia, & New Zealand all have Irish Heritage (they were also all raised Catholic).

That is a pretty unique situation that not many other nations would also share.

In the Australian context, Irish heritage has had a longterm association with progressive politics and the Labour movement - because of the significant number of Irish political prisoners who were sent to Australia as convicts.