POLITICAL GENEALOGY

Joe Biden’s Irish Roots

Joe Biden and Barack Obama’s respective Irish cousins, Laurita Blewitt and Henry Healy (courtesy of Laurita)¹

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…