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From top: Noel Whelan; From Whence I Came; The Kennedy Legacy, Ireland And America (Merrion Press)

This afternoon.

From the people behind the annual Kennedy Summer School:

From Whence I Came is a brand new collection of 15 specially-commissioned essays looking at the legacy of John F Kennedy and the politics of Ireland and the United States – co-edited by Dr Brian Murphy, a lecturer at the Technological University Dublin, and Dr Donnacha Ó Beacháin, Associate Professor of Politics at Dunblin City University.

Contributors include Cody Kennan, former Obama speechwriter, Kerry Kennedy, President of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organisation and Tad Devine, former senior adviser to Bernie Sanders.

Published by The Merrion Press, all royalties will go to the Community Hospital in New Ross, as the book is published in memory of the late barrister and political advisor  Noel Whelan, who hailed from New Ross and co-founded and ran the Kennedy Summer School there. Noel died in July 2019 aged 50.

From Whence I Came (The Merrion Press)

This afternoon.

At the Kennedy Summer School in New Ross, Co Wexford.

EU Commissioner and former Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan delivered a speech touching on the topics of Brexit, populism in the EU, America and US President Donald Trump.

He concluded by quoting the late former US president John F Kennedy, saying:

“Courage — not complacency — is our need today. Leadership — not salesmanship. And the only valid test of leadership is the ability to lead, and lead vigorously.”

Good times.

Mr Hogan’s speech can be read in full here

Pic via Eimear McAuliffe

Previously: Phil Hogan on Broadsheet

Kennedy Summer School 2018

More than 40 guest speakers will participate in  a ‘festival of Irish-American history, culture and politics’  from this Thursday, September 6 to 8 n New Ross, County Wexford.

Some highlights….

September 6 at 2.30pm – “The Kennedy Tea party will be in full swing at the JFK Arboretum with Brendan Grace and Rachel Allen.”

September 7 at 12.30pm – EU Commissioner Phil Hogan will deliver an informed and up to date perspective on the European Union’s ambitions for the Brexit negotiations process and the likely implications for Ireland.

September 7 at 6pm Brexit panel – Dearbhál Mc Donald, Mary O’ Rourke, Lucinda Creighton and Michelle Gildernew will discuss Brexit and its implications for politics, trade and economics in Ireland, North and South, and for the future of the European Union.

September 8 –12 noon – Leading Republican political consultant John Weaver will discuss his involvement in a number of GOP presidential campaigns & will also consider the future of his party in the Trump era, in both the shorter and longer terms.

FIGHT!

The Kennedy Summer School 2018

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Kevin Cullen, of The Boston Globe

The three-day 2016 Kennedy Summer School will take place in New Ross, Co Wexford from Thursday, September 8 to Saturday, September 10.

The speakers will include An Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald TD, the former governor of Maryland Martin O’Malley, the Garda Commissioner Noirin O’ Sullivan and a number of senior US Presidential campaign strategists and commentators.

In addition:

“The final event of the Summer School will be a showing of the Oscar winning movie ‘Spotlight’ followed by a panel discussion that will deliberate the implications of the clerical abuse scandal that features in the movie and the similar scandal in Ferns. Included in that panel will be, Kevin Cullen, a Boston Globe Columnist and a member of the Spotlight investigation team.”

See here for tickets and further details.

Previously: Grace, Noonan And Monageer

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