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The luck of the Irish might surface on St. Patrick's Day, but it evades the Kennedy family, America's best-known Irish dynasty

  • Written by Mary Burke, Professor of English and Irish Literature concentration coordinator, University of Connecticut
The luck of the Irish might surface on St. Patrick's Day, but it evades the Kennedy family, America's best-known Irish dynastyA portrait of the Kennedy family taken in Hyannis, Mass., in the 1930s. Bachrach/Getty Images

John F. Kennedy, whose ancestors left Ireland during the potato famine of the mid-19th century, was famously the first United States president of Catholic Irish descent.

When Americans narrowly elected Kennedy in 1960, anti-Catholic bias was still part of...

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