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On the recordJune 27, 1963
What pleases me most about coming here is not only this connection which all of us in America feel with Ireland, even though time and generations may have separated us from this island, but also because I find here in Ireland those qualities which I associate with the best not only of my own country but of all that we are trying to do and all that we are trying to be.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks at the City Hall in Cork.

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