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Hepburn Letters Sold

By Irish America Staff
December / January 2004

December 1, 2003 by Leave a Comment

A collection of letters written by Hollywood star Audrey Hepburn to her father and stepmother sold for £45,500 at auction at Christie's -- nine times more than the estimate of between £3,000 and £5,000. And a set of family photographs showing the My Fair Lady star, taken between 1939 and 1989, went for £24,150 to the same buyer -- far more than the pre-sale estimate of around … [Read more...] about Hepburn Letters Sold

A Pricey Bundle of Joyce

By Irish America Staff
October / November 2001

October 1, 2001 by Leave a Comment

Also available for viewing for the first time, or at least it was before it was auctioned off, was a previously unknown draft of one of the final chapters of James Joyce’s Ulysses. The Eumaeus chapter, described by Joyce critic Hugh Kenner as ‘the book’s most profound tribute to its hero Ulysses,’ has only one other known working draft – the one kept at the State University of … [Read more...] about A Pricey Bundle of Joyce

Sotheby’s Irish Art Auction

By Irish America Staff
June / July 2001

June 1, 2001 by Leave a Comment

Sotheby's was hoping that art lovers wanting to brighten their walls might also want to give their bank accounts a spring cleaning when works of the 7th Irish Sale were viewed in New York, Boston, Belfast and Dublin. The show featured paintings by some of Ireland's most estimated artists including pickpocket in a Dublin pub that was painted during his last years in a nursing … [Read more...] about Sotheby’s Irish Art Auction

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June 27, 1963

President John F. Kennedy receives a warm welcome upon his visit to his ancestral home in Co. Wexford, Ireland. Marking the second day of his four day trip through Ireland, Kennedy also visited the nearby town of New Ross, where his great-grandfather Patrick Kennedy left from in 1848 during the potato famine. Kennedy made a speech stating, “When my great-grandfather left here to become a cooper in East Boston he carried nothing with him except two things–a strong religious faith and a strong desire for liberty. I am proud to say that all of his grandchildren have valued that inheritance.”

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