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# Famous words

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My favourite speech: Taoiseach Enda Kenny
To coincide with the 50th anniversary of JFK’s death, Enda Kenny picks the former US president’s 1963 address to Leinster House as his favourite speech.
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Nov 22nd 2013, 9:29 AM
My favourite speech: Micheál Martin
To coincide with the 50th anniversary of JFK’s death, Micheál Martin picks the former US president’s 1962 address to students at Rice University in Texas.
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Nov 22nd 2013, 9:29 AM
My favourite speech: Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness
Continuing our summer series on TheJournal.ie of public figures’ favourite speeches, Martin McGuinness picks perhaps the most famous speech of all time.
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Aug 28th 2013, 6:00 AM
My favourite speech: President Michael D Higgins
Continuing our series on TheJournal.ie of public figures’ favourite speeches, President Michael D Higgins picks an emotional address by Robert F Kennedy.
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Sep 23rd 2012, 6:00 PM
My favourite speech: Owner and CEO of Harmonia, Norah Casey
Continuing our series on TheJournal.ie of public figures’ favourite speeches, a former dragon to the den chooses a speech from the women’s suffrage movement in the US.
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Sep 22nd 2012, 10:30 AM
My favourite speech: Chernobyl Children International founder Adi Roche
Continuing our summer series on TheJournal.ie of public figures’ favourite speeches, Adi Roche picks the 1963 speech by Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
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Sep 9th 2012, 5:00 PM
My favourite speech: Paul Murphy MEP
Continuing our summer series on TheJournal.ie of public figures’ favourite speeches, Paul Murphy MEP picks a speech by socialist Karl Liebknecht.
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Sep 8th 2012, 5:00 PM
My favourite speech: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport Leo Varadkar
Continuing our summer series on TheJournal.ie of public figures’ favourite speeches, Leo Varadkar picks one of the most famous speeches ever made by a US president.
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Sep 2nd 2012, 5:00 PM
My favourite speech: CEO of The Jack and Jill Foundation Jonathan Irwin
Continuing our summer series on TheJournal.ie of public figures’ favourite speeches, Jonathan Irwin picks a speech by a former Senator who was influential during the Northern Ireland peace process.
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Sep 1st 2012, 5:00 PM
My favourite speech: Socialist Party TD Clare Daly
Continuing our summer series on TheJournal.ie of public figures’ favourite speeches, Socialist Party TD for Dublin North Clare Daly picks one of Ireland’s best known trade union leaders.
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Aug 26th 2012, 5:00 PM
My favourite speech: Businessman Bill Cullen
Continuing our summer series on TheJournal.ie of public figures’ favourite speeches, Bill Cullen picks JFK’s 1963 address to Leinster House.
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Aug 25th 2012, 5:00 PM
My favourite speech: Senator and academic Ivana Bacik
Continuing our summer series on TheJournal.ie of public figures’ favourite speeches, Ivana Bacik picks a speech by Ireland’s first female president, Mary Robinson.
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Aug 19th 2012, 5:00 PM
My favourite speech: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Eamon Gilmore
Continuing our summer series on TheJournal.ie of public figures’ favourite speeches, Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore picks a speech by a former US president.
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Aug 12th 2012, 5:00 PM
My favourite speech: executive director of Amnesty International Colm O'Gorman
Continuing our summer series on TheJournal.ie of public figures’ favourite speeches, Colm O’Gorman picks the first major speech of the president who saw Czechoslovakia become the Czech Republic.
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Aug 11th 2012, 5:00 PM
My favourite speech(es): Rory Best
Continuing our summer series on TheJournal.ie of public figures’ favourite speeches, the Ireland and Ulster rugby captain picks a selection of great speeches from the movies.
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Aug 5th 2012, 5:00 PM
My favourite speech: Minister for Education and Skills Ruairí Quinn
Continuing our summer series on TheJournal.ie of public figures’ favourite speeches, Ruairí Quinn picks the last public speech by perhaps the most famous civil rights leader of all time.
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Aug 4th 2012, 5:00 PM
My favourite speech: Fergus Finlay
Continuing our summer series on TheJournal.ie of public figures’ favourite speeches, Fergus Finlay picks a speech by one of Ireland’s most famous trade union leaders.
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Jul 29th 2012, 5:00 PM
My favourite speech: Mary Lou McDonald
Continuing our summer series on TheJournal.ie of public figures’ favourite speeches, the Sinn Féin vice president picks an address by Ireland’s most famous female revolutionary nationalist.
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Jul 28th 2012, 5:00 PM
My favourite speech: Terry Prone
Continuing a summer series on TheJournal.ie of public figures’ favourite speeches, Terry Prone picks a stirring address from General George Patton.
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Jul 22nd 2012, 5:00 PM
My favourite speech: Declan Ganley
Continuing a summer series on TheJournal.ie of public figures’ favourite speeches, Declan Ganley picks a stirring speech made by Winston Churchill in 1940.
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Jul 21st 2012, 5:00 PM