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On the recordJune 27, 1963
I come to this island which has been identified with that effort for a thousand years, which was the first country in the 20th century to lead what is the most powerful tide of the 20th century--the desire for national independence, the desire to be free.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks at the City Hall in Cork.

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