Susan Millar DuMars & Kevin Higgins will be
reading a couple of poems at this event on Friday November 22nd.
"Join Democrats Abroad Ireland next Friday,
November 22nd in Galway as we mark the 50th anniversary of the tragic passing
of John F. Kennedy - a great President, a great Democrat, and a Son of Ireland.
We will conduct a memorial service on
the afternoon of the 22nd of November 2013 at 1:00pm in the plaza of the Galway
City Museum.
Addressing
the gathering will be Rev. Harcourt Klinefelter, former Aide to Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. and Assistant Director of Public Relations to the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference (S.C.L.C) from 1965-1969. Rev. Klinefelter will
speak to John F. Kennedy's contribution and support of the civil rights
movement and the overall legacy of his administration and family.
Also participating in the memorial service also will be the colour guard of
the Irish United Nations Veterans Association, readings from Irish and American
poets Kevin Higgins and Susan Millar DuMars from the Galway Arts Centre, and a
reflection by Larry Donnelly, Lecturer at NUI Galway, former legal counsel of
Democrats Abroad Ireland, and a Boston native. Democrats Abroad Ireland is
proud to be conducting one of the first memorial services in the world on the
anniversary of such a historic day.
Where: Galway City Museum Plaza, Spanish Arch,
Galway.
When: 1:00-1:45pm on Friday the 22nd of November
2013. All are welcome."