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Subject:      Kennedy Memorial in Eyre Square, Galway
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Glenn,

        I was once at a fascinating talk by someone, I can't recall who,
who spoke about using statues and such as evidence. If you look
carefully at the context and menaing of the Kennedy Memorial in Eyre
Square and the Mural in UCG, you would find very little contradiction.
Notwithstanding reality, which may well be different, People in Ireland
saw Kennedy as a saint, and his Presidancy, and visit to Ireland, coincided
with the Lemass years here, when it looked as if the future, both at home
and internationally, was rosy. The "Anti-American Imperialsim" mural in
the University College in Galway is the flip side of that -- disappointement
with reality. Remember that almost 30 years seperate the two pieces of
public art.

Mike Cosgrave
U.College Cork.