Joe Biden has said he is 'really not Irish' as he has 'never had a drink' - and joked that his relatives in Ireland 'actually weren't in jail' Read more here 👉
A"son of Ireland" is how Irish prime minister, Leo Varadkar, recently described him - a nod to the way Biden has made his Emerald Isle connections a keystone of his political identity.Irish prime minister, Leo Varadkar, presents Biden with a shamrock bowl to mark St Patrick's Day
The two Irish lines are the Blewitts who lived in the west coast in Co Mayo, and the Finnegans from the Cooley Peninsula in Co Louth, in the east. They concluded that Biden"is among the most 'Irish' of all US presidents" — 10 of his 16 great-great grandparents were from the Emerald Isle - which makes him roughly five-eighths Irish.Edward Blewitt had five children with Mary Mulderg, including Patrick, born in 1832, who is Biden's great, great, grandfather and the family member who took the Blewitts to the US.
Records show that Biden's great, great grandfather, Owen Finnegan left Ireland in the late 1840s for America. Jean Finnegan and Joseph R Biden Senior then had the 46th president of the US, Joe Biden, who was born in 1942.Biden's Irish roots trace back over 200 years, with members of his distant family still scattered across Mayo and Louth. Some of them have even met the president.
Joe Blewitt and his wife, Deirdre, celebrated the news of Joe Biden's impending victory in the 2020 presidential election US flags hang from shopfronts while locals prepare for the trip which marks the 25th anniversary of the signing of the landmark peace deal, the Good Friday Agreement.Another distant cousin, John Owen Finnegan, recalled the president's trip to Co Louth in 2016, when he stopped at a local pub, Lily Finnegan's."He was a calm, gentle man and someone says to him: 'Welcome to Ireland, Joe'.
At this year's St Patrick's Day celebrations, Biden quipped:"I may be Irish, but I'm not stupid". A comment which some interpreted as a joke, but was criticised by some political rivals and social media commentators.Growing up, Biden suffered from a pronounced stutter, which he has spoken openly about. He says he didn't receive professional help for it and instead spent hours practising in the mirror reciting from his uncle's book of Yeats' poems.
Tony Blair , Martin McGuiness and Gerry Adams were involved in the Good Friday Agreement. Pictured here in 2005
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