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On the recordJune 27, 1963
So Ireland is still old Ireland, but it has found a new mission in the 1960's, and that is to lead the free world to join with other countries of the free world to do in the sixties what Ireland did in the early part of this century.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks at the City Hall in Cork.

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