Maryann Tracy's Posts - The Wild Geese2024-03-28T14:53:48ZMaryann Tracyhttps://thewildgeese.irish/profile/MaryannTracy561https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/68531461?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://thewildgeese.irish/profiles/blog/feed?user=23dx2bor5d7ud&xn_auth=noJackie Kennedy's Letters to Dublin Priest to be Sold at Auctiontag:thewildgeese.irish,2014-05-13:6442157:BlogPost:929682014-05-13T14:00:00.000ZMaryann Tracyhttps://thewildgeese.irish/profile/MaryannTracy561
<p><strong><span class="font-size-7" style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/84705511?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-right" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/84705511?profile=original" width="380"></img></a> I</span>s is just me,</strong> or does anyone else find the release of private letters from Jackie Kennedy to Father Joseph Leonard, a Vincentian priest from Dublin, particularly distasteful?</p>
<p>Are there no sacred boundaries we won't cross for the voyeuristic pleasure of the unrelenting…</p>
<p><strong><span class="font-size-7" style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/84705511?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/84705511?profile=original" width="380" class="align-right"/></a>I</span>s is just me,</strong> or does anyone else find the release of private letters from Jackie Kennedy to Father Joseph Leonard, a Vincentian priest from Dublin, particularly distasteful?</p>
<p>Are there no sacred boundaries we won't cross for the voyeuristic pleasure of the unrelenting public?</p>
<p>The letters span fourteen years (from 1950 to 1964), in which she reveals personal thoughts and feelings on her engagement to New York stockbroker John Husted, which she broke off shortly before the wedding, her subsequent marriage to President John F. Kennedy, and her personal struggle with her faith following his assassination in 1963.</p>
<p>It seems to me that if Jackie Kennedy wanted those letters to be put out there for public consumption, she would have done so, or perhaps written an autobiography.</p>
<p>I think it an unforgivable invasion of privacy when letters written in confidence to a priest, are put on public display.</p>
<p>What I would like to know is who is responsible for this. Certainly not her family, I hope.</p>
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<p></p>James Kennedy McGuire, the 'Boy Mayor' of Syracusetag:thewildgeese.irish,2014-03-20:6442157:BlogPost:840812014-03-20T16:00:00.000ZMaryann Tracyhttps://thewildgeese.irish/profile/MaryannTracy561
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/James-K-Mcguire-Mayor-Nationalist/dp/0815610327/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=thewildgeeset-20&linkCode=w01&creativeASIN=0815610327" target="_blank"><img class="align-left" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/84704838?profile=RESIZE_320x320" width="250"></img></a></p>
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<p><strong><span class="font-size-7" style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">J</span>ames Kennedy McGuire</strong>, the “boy mayor” of Syracuse, NY, is…</p>
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<p><strong><span class="font-size-7" style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">J</span>ames Kennedy McGuire</strong>, the “boy mayor” of Syracuse, NY, is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/James-K-Mcguire-Mayor-Nationalist/dp/0815610327/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=thewildgeeset-20&linkCode=w01&creativeASIN=0815610327" target="_blank">profiled in a new book</a>. The McGuire family, from Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, emigrated to New York City, where James was born, but later moved to Syracuse.</p>
<p>He became mayor at the age of 27 and served three terms. Read more about this powerful and skilled public speaker and best-selling author, who did so much for education and the arts, among other things, all the while retaining a strong commitment to Irish nationalism.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://syracusenewtimes.com" target="_blank">Syracuse New Times</a></p>