john f kennedy in ireland

[GeorginaO89]

Then he wouldn't met Jackie :L

[Jocuro2]

I love these comments. It's like a real irish pub!

[seafc1]

@Jocuro2 haha ya

[Cilor101]

If anyone is ti insult him they can just go away.I am Irish and I respect the U.S.

[xeadm]

is he irish?

[salgadosroman]

god bless the kennedy's ....an honor to serve our country

[93rardo]

Patrick Kennedy left Ireland in a state of the greatest poverty imaginable. His great grandson returned to Ireland on top of the world.

JFK said in his farewell speech that he would return in the spring. Alas, spring never came for him as he was shot a few months later.

[0907oliv]

Yes, indeed, greatest Irish-American. When he visited Cork on this trip, the mayor called him a great Irishman and he was clearly touched by this description. And for those below wondering about President Kennedy's height. He was 6 feet tall.

[93rardo]

Interesting that you would say that. I've read that the irish where the tallest people in Europe 200 years ago, but that famine and continual malnurishment has made them shorter.

[erniepimlott]

God Bless JFK-th greatest Irish/American Man that ever was

[Tonyo1221]

I think President Kennedy was pretty tall and the secret service guys would never be short guys anyway so thats probably the reason. The farmer wasn't tall and it seemed mostly women around him who would be normally smaller anyway.

[OldTommyFlynns]

Malnutrition also. Rural Ireland was 3rd world in the 50s.

[philyfree]

@OldTommyFlynns Third world,? lol dont be stupid, maybe your family were but not the majority.

[daithibhard]

sure as hell beats Boris Yelsins stop over

[behappy8869]

fuck the queen i hopes she dies

[sp1ink]

fantastic clip. Its good to see that he still made time to visit during his short presidency and that although his family left so long ago that he still appreciates where he came from.

[rickdeledge]

hahaha the queen wat a joke

[ShahOfBlahII]

" No country in history has endured the haemorrhage that Ireland endured" How about Vietnam? A war largely the responsibility of Kennedy and his sidekick Macnamara and all that followed Agent Orange Napalm and carpet bombing

[AKfromUSA]

Everytime I see JFK with the farmers it makes me happy

[FezzyBhoy]

Was told when he one his election him and his family sang"boys of wexford".

[gennarinosavastano]

Is De Valera the man that says "welcome" to JFK?

[Cathain78]

Yes

[sweenigami]

suck the queens dick

[trowel12]

fecking irish tinkers

[sweenigami]

fuck you imperialist swine

[tothatextent]

@sweenigami No asshole, fuck you!

[Alan0874]

Look at that Freemason scum on the right hand side at 0:52. God shave the Queen!

[mugmugmug11]

fuck your queen hun.

[Alan0874]

Go JFKI- always my King! - Fuck the NWO.

[malmocar]

We could do with a real man like JFK here at the moment, rather than the lightweight corrupt gobshites we have to listen to ad nauseum

[luisg062007]

JFK visited mexico and as catholic he visited the basilica of our lady of Guadalupe en mexico city. Ireland is as catholic as mexico that is why the st.patrick's batallion helped to the mexico because the saw that the americans were doing a injustice war based in ambition,in the mexican-american war the st.patirck batallion gave thier life for mexico and Mexico will never forget it and always will to Ireland ; Thank you !!!ERIN GO BRAGH!

[leontrotsky911]

@luisg062007 viva la mexico from ireland brother :)

[FreedomOfTheUSA]

@luisg062007 My mother was Catholic and was from Ireland, she hated Mexicans.. My Irish Catholic family hates Mexicans. I'm a Catholic-American, but I too, hate Mexicans. We kicked Mexico's ass. We marched down to Mexico City and made your leaders suck our dick. Fuck Mexico, from the United States of America.

[risteardsean]

@FreedomOfTheUSA: FROM DUBLIN CITY TO SAN DIEGO WE WITNESSED FREEDOM DENIED, SO WE FORMED THE ST PATRICKS BATTALION, AND WE FAUGHT ON THE MEXICAN SIDE!

[risteardsean]

@FreedomOfTheUSA: we fought them in mattamoros were theyre volunteers were raping the nuns, in monterray and serragordo we faught on as Irelands sons, we were the red headed fighters for freedom amidst these brown skinned women and men, side by side we fought againgst tyranny and id dare say we would do it again!

[risteardsean]

@luisg062007: DAVID ROVICS SAINT PATRICKS BATTALION

[vinnyhoags]

There are no plastic paddy's, just Irish that love their people. JFK wasn't perfect,but was an Irish-American who gave hope and didn't deserve to be murdered by American scoundrels.

[clarkez]

new ross has more romanian gypsies in it now that anyone else! not a good way to go!

[Irishfianna]

I LIVE IN NEWROSS BEST TOWN

[ocean3da]

People shouldn't be too proud of kennedy. He had is scandals, possibily murders.

[luxyaltz219]

SxclillrishGal - My Granda Is Rite Behinde J.F.K and Devalera, In The Vry 1st Line Of Soliders, Pic Is Hangin In Me Sittin Room So Proud :)

Might be my friend john who is also on the gaurd of honour in video .

[KMAN6000]

I love this clip. I am also Irish background. I love President John F. Kennedy. Political hero. I am so proud to be Irish. I was even more proud years ago when I read President Kennedy was Irish. He is Irish American I am Irish Canadian. We are still Irish though and proud of it. It is our native ancestry country. Always god bless the greatest ancestry on the face of this earth the Irish.

[thisnow1]

I got goosebumps @ 2:59 onward with the farmers

[AKfromUSA]

agree

[leegwalker]

makes me proud to be an Irish-American

[leegwalker]

isn't it awesome that he's Irish-American?

[SxcLilIrishGal]

My Granda Is Rite Behinde J.F.K and Devalera, In The Vry 1st Line Of Soliders, Pic Is Hangin In Me Sittin Room So Proud :)

[thisnow1]

awesome

[Tinymoezzy]

He was such a great leader and his family was so warm and giving, much respect to you Bobby and John and the rest of the Kennedy family. Truly a king of his time.

R.I.P

[gundamWWW]

Look at all the people flooding in between 3:12 and 3:18, back in the day you could say you were American and people would flock to us and treat us like their own. Nowadays the word American has a negative connotation in almost every country... I miss you J.F.K. But now at least we have Obama

[Tinymoezzy]

Kennedy was such a great man ... love it.

They did rush at that point it was so sweet to see people reach for him and look at him as a leader who is smart and worthy of a handshake and more. He was such a moving leader.

All of the Kennedy family members have that something that quality that makes them stand tall and look proud they are really a royal family without the title.

RIP Kennedy

[937irish]

May the Lord bless and keep the Irish

[celticcorkfc]

truly a great man, RIP.

[remedy63]

A great man....wouldn't ya know he was Irish lol

[davidian2037]

hooray.......

[james890001]

cool video

[iamygod]

ilove ireland and am a american. thank you JFK! THIS IS WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS!

[PANZER299]

kennedy is probably rolling over in his grave over the way ireland has changed for the worse.its a bleeding heart leftist liberal country that has allowed over 400000 non irish immigrants into the country,over 40000 muslim nigerian bogus asylum seekers.its starting to look like new york.SHAMEFUL.

[jratt2]

The Irish have rejected Lisbon. Where are your imaginary bleeding heart leftist liberals now you retard?

Stick to "The Quiet Man" dipstick. You're out of your depth.

[RavenStillBeguilin2]

Only if he was a xenophobic like you, which would be SHAMEFUL.

[wntrent]

My great-great grandfather, one Richard McCarty, was born in County Cork in 1842. He came to New York in 1857 with

his mother and a younger sister, was in the 3rd New Jersey

Cavalry in the latter part of the Civil War, and came to Texas

about 1867. He was a typical rowdy Irish boozer and died

in Teague, Texas (Freestone County) in 1919.

[wntrent]

Well, big1, if you are a good Christian, then I thank God that

I am an agnostic.

[sebreathnach]

But you're not; you just want people to imagine you are!

[sebreathnach]

So? He had to be born somewhere and he had to die somewhere -- an none o four grandfathers get a medal for it, not even for being 'a typcial rowdy Irish boozer'!

[wntrent]

It was no particular boast, but I am glad to have an old rogue

in the family tree instead of only uptight Brits.

[sebreathnach]

Of course. My grandfather on my mother's side did a stint in Frongoch (against the Tans) , but his life was one of fishing and Christian uprightness... It is this collective use of peoples' personal feelings that interests me, whether used by the church or the politiicians. JFK stood for the absolute separation of Church from State.. No one in Ireland mentions it!

[Pearlofeire]

separation of church and state does not mean anti-catholic which our media is dominated by.

[sebreathnach]

It does if you want to tear the Catholic Church and its liege minions out of every cupboard of government, education, foreign affairs, family fertility, and their active repression of the secular social sciences. Failing that, if you haven't read Francesco Carotta, then you will never know what it means!

[sebreathnach]

As I have so often pointed out, christians are so apt to translate their love of christianity into the most vindictive personal violence at the drop of a pin. I used to think that this was caused by their intense love of God (at least one of them, God the Father, the Son, or, indeed, the HGhost). But no; it is more to be found in the Papal militia who are adept at bullying people...

[thebig1]

All you are is ANTI CHRISTIAN!!! I bet your liberal compassion only reaches to " peaceful " islam right?

[sebreathnach]

The one does not follow the other, except in the Christian mind!

[kevinharte1]

more "conspiracy theories",no "physical evidence"-more "nonsense"

[sebreathnach]

I don't know if you are referring to me, but you are a young man and not yet twisted with disappointment in your beliefs, so I ask you to read 2.b. irish-criminology dot com for all the evidence that any native open-minded Irishman needs to know what the papacy does to native cultures...Set yourself free before you become a twisted soul full of hate...

[wntrent]

No Catholic here, but some have been truly saintly, like the

late Pope John XXIII. I will pass on any comment about the

present Pope.

[sebreathnach]

I wouldn't know a saint if I saw one. Come to think of it most of the ones I heard about were like barking mad dogs.. so, I can't say... anyway, I don't rightly know what 'saintly' means. I know the Irish love to call themselves such, but I'm 66 and I never found one of either breed...And where Kennedy talks about separation of church from state, no one is allowed to question it...

[wntrent]

To parse words, I said saintly. not saint. The Catholic Church

or any other, imo, does not make Saints. Only God does, if

He/She/It exists. I am a confirmed agnostic.

[kevinharte1]

"The grassy knull" is a political term meaning Ireland?The troubles broke out in N.Ireland 3 years after he was assinated.The Loyalists shot him on behalf of the Queen if you want my opinion-for visiting Ireland.

[sebreathnach]

He Wally, where you go? You vote for Bush as pope tell you? You vote agasint John Kerry? You drop chirstian bombs on babies in Iraq...? You in East Timor with Irish christians, Wally? You come clean, now... you American, you always tell truth... what you say , Wally. why pope with ibn flock no stop war... if i have ibn i stop it... or , maybe, he start it??

[WALRU11]

I leave support for neo-fascists like Bush to sick German Nazis like you. There should be a 21st century Nuremberg tribunal for twisted hate-mongering old Nazi bigots like you. Your insufferable religious paranoia & intolerable racist hate rants make you a mockery of all that is decent & humane in this world.

[sebreathnach]

Hey Wally, you losing your cool, bro... which you hate more... me to people who listen to what I say... jesuits paying you overtime bro...reaad 2.b. irish-criminology dot com you see for yourself what last of Gaelic Chieftains say of your precious Irish... they work for pope, kill native pagans... bugger boys... and cannot speak a word of Gaeilc.... And dtuigeann tu me, bro?

[WALRU11]

You are a sick twisted bigot. Get help you Nazi hatemonger. See a qualified psychiatrist who may be able to help probe your raving hatred of Irish-Catholics. You are piteously insane.

[aoibh1983]

Wow, thanks for posting the video. My grandparents were both sitting behind JFK when he was on the stage with New Ross Urban Council. If anyone has any other videos of JFK in NR, please leave me a comment.

[sebreathnach]

It called the beckoning process... it have the imbarrassing aspects of a slace culture, in other words, a priest-ridden culture of chalk and chalk charms...all chalk moving statues made in rome...

[celtiberian07]

I fucking Hate Jfk and all the kennedys as a Irish American I don't want those corrupt treasonist bastards To be representive of Irish Americans

[WALRU11]

Your hatred is not accurately informed, but the product of now a near half-century of neo-fascist historical revisionism & posthumous assassination of JFK by rightwing mass corporate & CIA-infested media whose denigration of the Kennedys was prerequisite to fostering an antidemocratic, non-egalitarian agenda that has morally & financially bankrupted America at the expense of decent hard-working citizens. You can rant, but JFK, RFK, & Ted have remained true to the ideals of American's founders.

[sebreathnach]

Hey, Walrus, why you makawithdebitwords? ... Why not speech by JFK on SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE? why it disappear from You Tube? ... If Irish peoples hear what JFK say on giving churches no help absolutely, they actually leave fairy places they live in and actually grow up ... what happen then , Walrus, you have no pulpit and no job....hehehe!

[WALRU11]

Hey SemenBreath Night: Your anti-Catholic posts have called all Irish people Godless pedophiles -- a baseless, savage, blanket condemnation rooted in bigotry, gross stupidity, & acute mental illness. Do not compare yourself to a comedic social commentator like George Carlin who loathes ideological vermin like you. You are a sick twisted old man with a vicious unbridled paranoia reminiscent of Nazism at its worst. Save your rabid anti-papist rants for a psychiatrist and leave Youtube alone.

[sweenigami]

thats great.. i'd like to learn it myself; there are some gaelic speaking areas here in cape breton, lots of the old crew here

[masslib]

A very nice video of Kennedy's visit in 1963. Was this recording originally made on RTE?

[sweenigami]

dunno.. found this clip somewhere in a murky corner of the internet

[sebreathnach]

Diatribe? You seem like a sensible person: have you any idea what 'reviving' a language that has been dead for hundreds of years actually means?

[sweenigami]

why not take back your culteral heritage after it was a victim of imperialism? im all for it

[sebreathnach]

Since I was a child the same ould spiel was trotted out. The Protestants will do it for the Catholics, youth will do it for age, and God will feed us all with five loaves and two fishes....... In Ireland there is only one issue -- Gullability!

[sweenigami]

When england couldnt overthrow a people they use internal subversion.. like the USA

[JDLK2005]

I remember in every house of the people I knew when I was a young lad there was always a picture on the wall that had a picture of JFK, Jesus Christ and John Paul II. I suppose we could punch holes into the character of any man in the world sure we all have our human flaws, but I (and I think most Irish) are very proud of JFK, I think that the Irish of the time felt like they had a lost their own leader when the wrold lost him.

[jratt2]

I agree. Certainly at the time, witnessing the decendent of an Irish-immigrant becoming the most powerful man in the world was inspiration at a time when there was not much to be excited about in Ireland.

[WALRU11]

JFK was the most profound visionary to become president since Thomas Jefferson. Author Romaine Gary said of him, "he possessed the most perfectly functioning human mind I ever encountered." As a student, Kennedy was called a "deep political thinker" by Harvard professor Payson Wild, Jr., & his implemented political philosophy was democratic, egalitarian, progressive, rational, & realistic. We owe our very existence to his adept handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis. JFK was America's best.

[sebreathnach]

Please don't talk nonsense! Profound? 'Very existence'?

[WALRU11]

That's right, & in your case, very SORRY existence, you right-wing, redactic, revisionary, swastika-brandishing, Rush Limbaugh-loving, saggy, elephant-grey G.O.P. mental fat ass. JFK's masterful handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis saved even morons like you whose idiotic blather befogs historical truth with neo-fascistic didacticism not seen since the days of Josef Goebbels. Try moving beyond Mein Kampf, moron, preferably on an uncharted island as your own 4th Reich far from the madding crowd.

[sebreathnach]

Seriously, Walrus, don't you think you might consult a doctor! You're having a heart attack,man! It's only an exchange of opinions -- not Custer's last stand!

[WALRU11]

"Walrus?" You squinty-eyed, strabismic, moralizing Magoo! Before I consult a doctor, how about you first consulting an ophthalmologist! It's "WalRu11," you moron! And as for doctors, I'll see one after you stop spouting the eugenics line of Dr. Joseph Menegele, you anti-Catholic, Protestant prick! There are legitimate exchanges of opinion, then there is simply having to bear the horrific inbred imbecility of prejudicial racists like you, for which I have zero tolerance. Go piss up a rope!

[sweenigami]

stop thinking in protestant/cathlic and start thinking in the people v the elite. it's all a charade for the price of your soul.. stop fighting your brother and fight the big brother.

[sebreathnach]

Address issue , not preach from pulpit!

[WALRU11]

You miss the forest for the trees. FYI: in proper historic context, Protestant hatred of Catholics is an aspect of the larger WASP eugenics agenda that has produced genocidal slaughter against those regarded as inherently inferior by race, ethnicity, or religion. Research the British & Americans Eugenics movement of the 19th century in league with the anti-immigration agenda of Boston Blue Bloods like Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge & elitist servitors like the Bush & Dulles families. It yet continues.

[sweenigami]

the things that are going on today .. custer's last stand dont have shit on.. we are dealing with a massive elitist power grab on a WORLD scale.. we will wage an eternal fight against this NWO but we must not degrade ourselves into fighting amongst our peers.

[sebreathnach]

read properly, not with one eye, please!

[sebreathnach]

The throw around Gaelic words in this programme -- as if there was anyone in Ireland who actually wanted to speak the language! What hypocricy!

[sebreathnach]

I don't know who killed JFK, but if JFK talked in Ireland about the absolute separation of Church and State as he did in Houston and elsewhere in 1960, the Irish would have shot him then and there. The RC Church owns Ireland, (all) its schools ,its political parties, its civil service, judges, lawyers, etc. . The separation of Church and State is the most radical thing he ever said. The Church would die without handouts...

[Thuglordrpt]

are you cracking a joke???? rome doesent own anything but the church in ireland, and never did. It had some influence but thats about it...... kennedy was obviously killed because he was going to stop the CIA, and the secret goverment agencys and cults and expose everyone...

[sebreathnach]

State papers recently admit the CIA operations in Ireland. Cathal O Shannon has shown how the hatred of Communism has led the 'religious' in Ireland to ratline Nazies to Ireland and elsewhere. What do you think of Kennedy's view to seperate Chruch from State? Or maybe you never heard of Liz O'Donnell. She thought the same as JFK. Now she has neither a seat nor a party.

[Thuglordrpt]

the church never controlled ireland, beisdes the church and education. SURE, they had influence, but there was nothing wrong with it. I dont see where JFK express's his's views on this, and if so, this wasent the reason.

[sweenigami]

While there isnt a big sign that says "This is the popes".. there are other, more nafarious ways to control an area.. research the jesuit order (and more then a passing glance) and you will see what he means

[sebreathnach]

I'm sure you have something interesting to say; but could I ask you to be a bit more simple and specific as to what you want to say.

[sweenigami]

Perhaps you should present a topic on which you would like me to speak about.. I will give you my opinion if you wish to be more specific..

[sebreathnach]

you must decide for yourself. You might begin by coming out of the shadows and representing yourself...

[jratt2]

sebreacthnach, you're comment is a complete overstatment: it is laughable to suggest the Irish would have shot jfk for ANY reason!; the RC church does not own Ireland and its influence has wained rapidly since 1992; the RC church just announced that non-catholics will be given equal opportunity to register in catholic schools, and now many of the positions you have listed in Irish society are dominated by a liberal and possibly Godless elite.

Welcome to 21st century Ireland.

[sebreathnach]

Yes, Father! Three bags full, Father! Being the only country in the world to pay for the Church's paedophilic army -- does that prove how Godless the Irish are?

[jratt2]

It has nothing to do with "how Godless the Irish are" and everything to do with the state owning up to its responsibilities in letting the church off with its "paedophilic army" as you call it.

If you don't think that the impact of church scandals has not had a disastrous effect on the influence of the Catholic Church then you are probably not living in Ireland at all. You should read todays Sunday Tribune,btw.

[sebreathnach]

I think you have misread everything. I am not concerned with the Chruch, as you are; I am concerned with its awful effects on society. The Irish have just volunteered to pay for their pedophile clerics. Could anything be more depraved than for a people to pay for those who bugger their children?

[jratt2]

I'm not concerned with the church, I am concerned with your exaggerations. When referring to Ireland you state that the Catholic church owns "(all) its schools". Does it own the non-Catholic schools too? How the muslim schools? Are they "muslim-catholics"? lol.

[sebreathnach]

What it doesn't own doesn't really matter. We, the taxpayers, pay for it. As you well know. Now , if you want to talk to me further, you will have to come out of hiding....

[jratt2]

Northern loyalists don't have to pay for anything down here sebreathnach. Now, if you want to talk to me further, you will have to come out of hiding...

[sweenigami]

propaganda propamato the elites furver to subvert and distract the irish people knows no bounds.. as more irish are proud of their roots there as are the elite and as they know the irish people would be the greatest wrench in their cogs if fully utilized.

[stevenstreets2]

so why did the good lord give the irish whiskey?to keep them from ruling the world?didnt work did it?...so he had to send them redheads too...in my 51 years Americas been at its best when it has a philandering president, think about that and vote!

[wiganrlfc]

Lee Harvey Oswald.

Lee Harvey Oswald.

[kennyworth1967]

It was most certainly endoresed by the founders..What was practiced is a different story..

I don't belive that was the intent of JFK's statement.I belive instead that he was trying to assure a bigoted voting block that as president his decisions regarding law would reflect his views of the Constitution and not Catholic doctrine.

He was correct to do so.

Frankly, I'm sick of politicians discussing religion.

[yahmpy]

the only Irish Catholic president of our country.

this highlights the kind of kook, religious conservatives weirdos that we have in our country that would rather elect a moron like George Bush than elect a Catholic.

JFK is the greatest President the United States has ever had...

[tcmitton]

Yes but he was said to have offended his own church. Have you seen the vid with the speech where he says keep the church opinion out of the office? Some didn't like that spoken outloud by a man of his stature It made the Jesuits mad

[kennyworth1967]

The U.S. Constitution DEMANDS their be separation of Church and State.

You may not know it to look at the republicans,all trying to "out Jesus " eachother..

It's getting so that I expect them to appear at the next debate adorned in robes and riding a donkey.

[tcmitton]

Ya I know about that seperation deal, its never publicluy endoresed though Back when tv as newer then today it was insulting to the CAthlics when JFK did this. Think of all The President of other faith who avoided doing this NOw a cathlic come in and WHat? he decides its time to remind the nation he will not listen to the Pope or high priests? THen he tell the VAticans bankers who invested in the Fed Reserve he plans on competing agaist them with the SIlver backed treaury Bill?

[LionessConway71]

Kennedy was the best. A heart of gold.

[sunpacificblue]

I agree with you!!!!President Kennedy was the best!!!!Rip John.

[WolfArden44]

JFK WAS the best president we ever had.NOT Reagan.

[nova1mike]

Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall!

[fifimac2007]

rip jfk!!!! a true leader..... u were loved my everybody in ireland!

[vinnyhoags]

he made irish americans and all irish around the world proud.we are not plastic paddys, we love ireland,its people,and j. f. k.

[sunpacificblue]

God Bless President Kennedy.You was a great man and a great leader.You are in the Heaven with your wife and sons:John jr and Patrick.

JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY IS THE BEST PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATES WITH FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT TOO!!!!!!!!

GEORGE BUSH IS THE WORST!!!!!!!!!

RIP John.

Nice video, thank you!!!

[leitrimmancrummy]

was a young lad in ireland in 63, and this visit made me dream, today I live in melbourne australia and I just love hearing this speech

[PJSJ22]

It is such a shame that JFK was assasinated when he had so much to offer to the people all across the globe. This world would have been so much more different if he wasn't murdered. I don't think anyone can fathom how much of an impact he made and could have made to the American public and how much he could have righted.

[FightForEire]

I agree.