POLITICAL GENEALOGY
Joe Biden’s Irish Roots
10 min readFeb 16, 2020
This is an updated version of an article that was first published in Irish America in 2013, but for obvious reasons, has become freshly relevant.
How can you not love a name like Finnegan Biden? I find it charming when family names are given fresh life in ensuing generations, and that’s exactly what happened in the lineage bracketing Joe Biden. His beloved mother…