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IN THIS ISSUE

From Japan to Philly, a Global Gaelic Revival

Michael von Siegel and Naoise Ó Cairealláin don’t have much in common. Von Siegel grew up in Landsdowne, outside of Philadelphia, while Ó Cairealláin was born across the Atlantic in Belfast. Both, however,…

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Hibernia – Sports

Irish Punters in American Football Daniel Whelan It’s shaping up to be a very exciting year for a group of Irish-born athletes in the U.S. In Wisconsin, Wicklow native…

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The Catholic Church in Crisis

As in the U.S., the Church in Ireland is in crisis over continuing allegations of…

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Alison Doody Is Back

Fifteen years after she starred in Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade with Harrison…

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May 29, 1917

John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, great grandson of Irish immigrants, was born on Tuesday, May 29, 1917, at at his family’s home in Brookline, MA to Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. He was named after his maternal grandfather John “Honeyfitz” Fitzgerald. Often ill as a child and given the last rites 5 times, the first when he was a newborn, he went on to Princeton and Harvard and joined the U.S. Navy in 1941. In the early 1950s he ran for Congress and was elected a Senator from Massachusetts in 1952. In 1960, he defeated Richard Nixon to become the 35th president of the U.S. He was assassinated on November 22, 1963 in Texas. For more information on JFK visit the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum.

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