If the day was clear enough, and if you went down to the bay, and you looked west, and your sight was good enough, you would see Boston, Mass.

What gives me the greatest satisfaction and pride, being of Irish descent, is the realization that even today this very small island still sends thousands, literally thousands, of its sons and daughters to the ends of the globe to carry on…

I want to express our greatest thanks to the President of your country, your great President, to your Prime Minister, and to all the members of the government, and especially to all the people of Ireland who have taken us in.

So I must say that though other days may not be so bright as we look toward the future, the brightest days will continue to be those in which we visited you here in Ireland.

I said, 'What is this county noted for?' and he said, 'It is noted for its beautiful women and its fast horses.'

I am very glad to be back in England again.

It is in a very real sense the mother of a great many people, a great many millions of people, and in a sense a great many nations.

Ireland is an unusual place.

This is the last place I go, and then I am going to another country, and then I am going to Italy, and then I am going back home to the United States.

I am going to come back and see old Shannon's face again, and I am taking, as I go back to America, all of you with me.

Here in Ireland the word 'freedom,' the word 'independence,' the whole sentiment of a nation is perhaps stronger than it is almost any place in the world.

I don't think that I have passed through a more impressive ceremony than the one I experienced yesterday in Dublin when I went with the Prime Minister to put a wreath on the graves of the men who died in 1916.

Even though a good many years have passed since most of them left, they still remain and retain the strongest sentiments of affection for this country.

So Ireland is a very special place.

Well, I will tell you, they have been among the best citizens and they behave themselves very well, and you would be proud of them.

I WANT to express my thanks to the County Council and this is where we all say goodbye.

This is a great country, with a great people, and I know that when I am back in Washington, while I will not see you, I will see you in my mind and feel all of your good wishes, as we all will, in our hearts.

I am particularly glad on this occasion that we will have an opportunity to talk about the forthcoming trip of our representatives to the Soviet Union.

You send us home covered with gifts which we can barely carry, but most of all you send us home with the warmest memories of you and of your country.

If you ever come to America, come to Washington and tell them, if they wonder who you are at the gate, that you come from Galway.

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…

I want to also say how pleased I am to have this association with these two great universities.

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…

Most countries send out oil or iron, steel or gold or some other crop, but Ireland has had only one export and that is its people.

The world is a small place today and it is, it seems to me, important that we recognize the kinship which exists between all free people.