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Poet Joseph Donahue & JFK

November 16, 2013 by PaulM Posted in Lowell, Poetry, Politics, Culture, History Leave a Comment

Following are excerpts from a seqence of poems titled “Purple Ritual” in Joseph Donahue’s first book of poems, Before Creation (1989). The sequence in much longer and more complex than these passages suggest, but today it seemed important to me to share part of this composition for the record. At…

JFK Visits Ireland

June 27, 2011 by Marie Posted in Culture, History, Politics Leave a Comment

On this day – June 27, 1963 – President John F. Kennedy, son of Massachusetts and son of County Wexford – arrived in Ireland. Celebrating the Irish roots of this American President, warm and welcoming crowds greeted President Kennedy in his ancestral home in Dunganstown and in Dublin. He described…