June 2629. 1963. Mr. Speaker. it was my privilege to accompany President Kennedy during his visit to Ireland. and to the farmstead at Dunganstown. from which his greatgrandfather. Patrick Kennedy. had emigrated to the United States over a century ago. The Presidents boyish enthusiasm and obvious enjoyment was infectious and an official occasion became a happy Kennedy family reunion as Mrs. Mary Kennedy Ryan and her family served tea on tables covered with linen cloths in the concrete farmyard between the whitewashed cabin. which was Patrick Kennedys home before his departure in 1848 to East Boston. and the newer greypainted farmhouse.
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