President Kennedy with the then mayor of Limerick Frances Condell

Alan Condell describes the time his mother Frances, then mayor, insisted JFK visit Limerick

Pat Poland, in the middle of the back row, with fellow AFS members who performed fire protection duties during President Kennedy’s helicopter take-off from Marina Park (now Kennedy Park), Cork, in June 1963.

Pat Poland remembers the day he and his comrades in the AFS were tasked with protecting the president

Godfrey Graham  felt the visit to his ancestral home at Dunganstown was the most incredible part he filmed for RTÉ.

Godfrey Graham filmed the visit for RTÉ in his first assignment as a cameraman and he recalls the electricity generated between JF(...)

New Ross choir members who sang for President Kennedy before they travelled to the US in 1964 to sing on The Ed Sullivan Show.

Victor Furness was one of 600 children chosen to sing for JFK in New Ross – and among 21 selected to sing ‘The Boys of Wexford’ on(...)

Very Rev Paul Draper at the newly renovated Cotton Library in St Carthage’s Cathedral , Lismore, Co Waterford. Photograph: Patrick Browne

A largely forgotten library in Lismore that has some rare and historical gems opens its doors this weekend

President Kennedy addresses the people of New Ross. Photograph: Robert Knudsen, White House/John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston

Memories of a day with JFK include a dry wit and an invitation to the White House, recalls Statia O’Leary

The White House in Rosscarbery is a substantial home commissioned by a rector in the 1920s, while David Bowie and Paul McCartney a(...)

David Bowie and Paul McCartney are rumoured to have stayed in this Clonakilty home, which has been owned by two musicians, while t(...)

Clare winner: the sun sets over Kilkee. Photograph: Alan Betson

This week Loop Head peninsula, in Co Clare, won the ‘Irish Times’ Best Place to Holiday in Ireland award. Why, and how, did it cli(...)

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