Dennis Leary
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rfk jr this is like you know when the kennedys were the kennedys right right so i still remember actually this is like one of my first memories as a kid growing up like i don't know why it's the summer of 63 my parents couldn't afford to go back to ireland when they came over in in 49 and 50 they couldn't afford to go back then uh in 1963 was the first time they could afford to go but they can only take one kid with them because that's they didn't have enough money so my older brother johnny got to go and the
Let's keep in mind, this is 1803.
I remember that summer really well, because that's the summer that JFK went to Ireland.
I remember being at Logan, and my mother and my father get on this plane with my brother, who I really hate now, because he's going to Ireland.
And I got stuck with my Aunt Betty, who had no kids, and who gave me a Bible.
I had to go to mass every day.
And then she'd walk me over to where my sister and Marie was at my, my cousins, the Lucy's.
They were a couple of blocks away where all the kids were having a blast in their yard.
And she was like, I don't want you to get too dirty.
And I'm like, that was a month of the, but anyways,
Also, that when my parents came back, which I still remember, that Kennedy was in Ireland, which was a big thing.
But then he spoke at Holy Cross that summer, at the end of the summer.
So he drove through the neighborhood with the cover on the car.