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White House Photographs
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President John F. Kennedy (top right, at lectern) delivers an address before the crowd gathered at Eyre Square in Galway, Ireland, during a welcoming ceremony in his honor. Mayor of Galway, Alderman Patrick D. Ryan (right of President Kennedy, wearing red robe), and United States Ambassador to Ireland, Matthew H. McCloskey (left of the Irish flag), sit in the upper platform. Also pictured, on the lower platform: a group of children from local dance schools (left); boys from the Patrician Brothers Choir (center); and harpist Ruth Bradley (right, wearing red skirt); White House Secret Service agent Paul A. Burns (bottom center) stands in front of the platform.