CARLOW IN THE RARE OUL’ TIMES Former taoiseach Seán Lemass and President Eamon de Valera in St Patrick’s College, Carlow for the ordination of Bishop Patrick…
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Roger Casement was executed in London on August 3, 1916. The only one to be executed outside of Ireland, this Irish Easter Rising rebel had received a knighthood from the Queen of England just five years earlier.
In June 1963, President John F. Kennedy made a series of state visits throughout Europe. To Germany, where he made his famous Ich bin ein Berliner speech; to Italy; to England; and to Ireland, the country his great-grandfather Patrick Kennedy had left in 1848. Dave Powers, assistant and close friend to the president, described JFK’s