Welcome to the JFK Homecoming website, celebrating the 50th Anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s visit to Ireland in 1963. Here you can help tell the story of this timeless event by sharing your own thoughts, reactions and memories of those four days in June. It is part of an exhibition which will open in Dublin, Ireland on June 21, 2013 at the National Library of Ireland in partnership with the U.S. Embassy, JFK Presidential Library in Boston, the National Archives and RTE.
Hear JFK’s words spoken through the voices of Ireland today, featuring Sarah Bolger, Mike Feeney Callan, Sharon Corr, Roddy Doyle, Moya Doherty, Jamie Heaslip, Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh, Mark Pollock, Robert Sheehan, Jim Sheridan, Ryan Tubridy and Laura Whitmore.