Joe O’Biden’s Irish home

County Mayo is adored by Hollywood, the US President-elect – and Dea Birkett

Until the American election, few outside the island of Ireland could point to Mayo on the map. Far from the maddening film crowd of West Cork, where director David Puttnam’s and actor Jeremy Irons’s crew hang out, Mayo isn’t favoured by the fashionable. […]

First published in The Oldie in December, 2020. Read online here.