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Famine Heroes Honor Black Abolitionists in Ireland

Famine Heroes Honor
Black Abolitionists in Ireland
William Henry Lane

May 4, 2021 by Leave a Comment

Great Famine Voices 2021 continues with a new series of standalone short films and online discussions beginning with Black Abolitionists in Ireland and continuing with caregivers during Ireland’s darkest years. William Henry Lane “Master Juba” – the Father of Tap Dance This week’s topic, a short film (23 minutes) and live online discussion features William Henry Lane “Master … [Read more...] about Famine Heroes Honor
Black Abolitionists in Ireland
William Henry Lane

Famine Heroes Honor
Black Abolitionists in Ireland
Sarah Parker Redmond

April 29, 2021 by Leave a Comment

Great Famine Voices 2021 is back this Sunday, with a brand new series of free standalone short films and online discussions beginning with Black abolitionists in Ireland and continuing with caregivers during Ireland’s darkest years. These short films provide uplifting stories about humanitarians in Ireland and pay tribute to caregivers, both in the mid-nineteenth century and … [Read more...] about Famine Heroes Honor
Black Abolitionists in Ireland
Sarah Parker Redmond

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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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