Joe Biden to be presented with 200-year-old brick from his ancestral home in Ballina

Ballina Community Clean-up Group prepare for the visit of US president Joe Biden. Picture: John O'Grady

A 200-year-old brick from his ancestral home in Mayo will be presented to US president Joe Biden during his visit to Ballina on Friday.

The great, great, great-grandfather of President Biden, entrepreneur and ‘brickman’ Edward Blewitt, lived in a cottage at the rear of what is now Caffrey’s Art Gallery on Garden Street in the 1820s.