Ten of the former vice president’s 16 great-great-great-grandparents were born in Ireland, in the Ideas for Biden campaign, providing connections to Eden Blewitt, Biden’s great-great-grandfather, Bali.
On Saturday, CNN predicted Biden’s White House victory, with Bali residents coming out to celebrate the success of their distant relatives.
“I think Ballina has saved the world tonight, because without Ballina, there would be no Biden,” Smiler Mitchell, a local public figure, told CNN.
The balloons were attached to the car and the crowd sang “The Green and Red of Mayo”, a popular ballad about the county where Ballina is located. In the front seat, a cardboard car cut out of Biden had a license plate that read, “Pennsylvania Biden # 1.”
Led by the election, the community held a “Biden for Biden” event around the bridge, with a carousel of cars passing through the city’s iconic cathedral and the man himself finishing the mural. In the main square of the city.
“Bolina has always been an underdog city to the west of Ireland, which has faced its own challenges in the past,” said local politician Mark Duffy.
“Now we feel it’s time to shine and keep our best foot forward. We look forward to welcoming many visitors from the U.S. and the political divide.”
He noted that the city is located in a beautiful part of the world, with lakes, mountains and urban forests in the surrounding area.
Biden still has distant relatives in the city.
A third cousin, B Blewitt, who has met the president-elect several times, said his name was “quite down to earth.”
Blewitte CNN “He is a family man.
But Bolina is not the only Irish city with a bidon connection. On the opposite side of the country – Carlingford, in County Louth – a community pipe band The song premiered for Biden on Sunday afternoon.
Biden’s paternal grandfather, James Finnegan, arrived in New York in 1850 on a marine shipwreck from Carlingford, 70 miles north of Dublin.
In honor of his most famous son’s election victory, a local parish pastor in Carlingford planned to hold a church llsnt with school children and members of the community in attendance.
Paul Allen, the Irish chief organizer for the Biden campaign, told CNN. “The city is happy with the outcome,” he said.
He said, “Biden is an outstanding Irish American and he shows what a combination of hard work and determination can do.”
The campaign encouraged Irish people around the world to call a relative in the United States and ask them to vote for Biden.
Allen added, “A nurse working in Chicago, a firefighter in Boston or a police officer in New York, the builder of America, the builder of the building; it’s an Irish-American connection.”
The Carlingford community hosted Biden in 2016, and prior to his visit, he wrote a letter in which he wrote: “Northeast Pennsylvania will be written on my heart. But Ireland will be written on my soul.”
Among the first world leaders to congratulate Biden on Saturday’s victory was Ireland’s Taosich or Prime Minister Michelle Martin.
More celebrations were expected on Sunday back in Balina.
Politician Mark Duffy said his message was hope for the diaspora and a light in the window. “… Years later today, one of the descendants of our Diaspora, who would have sacrificed for such a black and obscure time for Irish history, will hold the highest office in the country.”
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