Newsweek reveals Irish dancing passion of Chief Justice John Roberts

Magazine says Chief Justice Roberts “cuts loose” as an Irish set dancer

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NIALL O'DOWD,

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Chief Justice John Roberts and his wife, Jane Sullivan

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Her mother, Kathleen Theresa O’Carroll, was her role model.

“My mother was very smart. She graduated high school at 16 having skipped two classes, and she graduated with honors. She was the only student in the whole town accepted to university – University of Cork. And she didn’t go because it seemed so unattractive; she said you go to Cork and live with some old biddy, and she wanted no part of that.

She broke my grandfather’s heart in that sense. He forced her to do a typing course, because he said ‘you’re equipped with nothing,’ and that, in fact, is how she made her living at her first employment in New York.”

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