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Jackie Kennedy Letters Returned to Kennedys

By Adam Farley, Deputy Editor
October / November 2014

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The private letters of Jacqueline Kennedy to an Irish priest caused controversy last May when the Vincentian Fathers at All Hallows College in Dublin announced they were being put up for auction. The letters, written between 1950 and 1965 to Rev. Joseph Leonard, a resident of All Hallows, were subsequently removed from the auction, and their fate had been uncertain until the … [Read more...] about Jackie Kennedy Letters Returned to Kennedys

November 29, 1993

The Northern Ireland peace process took another momentous step forward on this day in 1993 by appointing ten members onto an executive power-sharing board under the leadership of David Trimble. Furthermore, the British and Irish governments began making constitutional changes that were laid down in the Good Friday Agreement. Martin McGuinness, former IRA member, was appointed minister of schools in Ulster, which caused much controversy amongst some unionist supporters.

Jackie Kennedy Letters Returned to Kennedys

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