An Taoiseach Simon Harris is to play a special role in this year’s Kennedy Summer School.
The annual event held at the New Ross homestead of the famed family whose members went on to play a pivital role in American politics.
This year’s offering roles out on the 29th and 30th of August with a host of speakers on the bill. (Full details here).
Today, Chair of the Kennedy Summer School, Eileen Dunne, has announced that the Taoiseach will be the guest for the Noel Whelan Interview which commemorates the founder of the festival of Irish and American history, culture and politics – it takes place at 6pm on Friday, 30th August at St Michael’s Theatre with school Director Sinéad McSweeney while her son with Noel, Séamus Whelan, introducing the session.
Sinéad says; “I’m very much looking forward to what will be a fireside chat with the Taoiseach. This is an opportunity to discuss his life and times in politics and his priorities as Taoiseach in the period ahead.”
2024 marks the 61st anniversary of President John F Kennedy’s historic visit to New Ross and his ancestor’s homestead at Dunganstown, in county Wexford. The 2024 Kennedy Summer School takes place from August 29th to 31st and will see a host of writers, journalists, politicians, strategists and more take to the stage for a series of panels and discussions. Former RTÉ pundit Eamon Dunphy, former Green Party leader Eamon Ryan, former taoiseach Enda Kenny, Newstalk journalist Ciara Kelly, RTÉ stalwart Bryan Dobson, the British Ambassador to Ireland, Paul Johnston, the Irish Ambassador to the UK, Martin Fraser, Dr. Laura Barberena who has made political ads for the Clintons and Barack Obama, Alan Tierney, Mandy Johnston, Sarah Carey, Dr Mark Henry, Hugh O’Connell, Elaine Loughlin, Grainne Ni Aodha, Sean O’Rourke and many more are joining the 2024 events.
