Biden's Northern Ireland Visit: Diplomacy and Security Concerns.
TL;DR
US President Joe Biden, who has Irish ancestry, is set to visit Ireland this week. Biden's great-great-great-grandfather, Edward Blewitt, left Ireland in the 19th century and settled in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Biden has been touted as the most "Irish" of Americans to sit in the Oval Office since John F. Kennedy. Many US Presidents, including Andrew Jackson, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama, have traced their roots back to early Irish immigrants to America.
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