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Includes content from Vanishing Ireland, Easter Dawn, Dublin Docklands, The Irish Pub, Maxol and many more, as well as Waterways Ireland, the Past Tracks project and hundreds of historical articles on Irish families, houses, companies and events.

Joe Biden’s Irish Roots

Joe Biden is arguably the most 'Irish' president to have occupied the White House, which will liven things up when he attends a state dinner hosted by King Charles III at Hillsborough Castle outside Belfast on 18 April 2023. This is an ongoing exploration of his engineering forebears and his ancestral roots, including affiliated lines of the Scanlon, Blewitt, Finnegan, Arthur, Boyle and Roche families.