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A staggering blow for Ireland

With his passing, Ireland and Irish America has lost its most important advocate

By
NIALL O'DOWD,
IrishCentral.com

Published Wednesday, August 26, 2009, 2:34 PM
Updated Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 9:07 PM

 

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Senator Edward Kennedy with Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams during the peace process
Senator Edward Kennedy with Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams during the peace process

They were the Four Horsemen, the most powerful Irish lobby in American political history. They were Senator Edward Kennedy, House Speaker ‘Tip’ O’Neill Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and New York governor Hugh Carey.

Back in the 1980s they practically ran America, and were a lobby group for Irish issues that the Irish government depended on heavily.

It helped that another Irishman Ronald Reagan, also partial to the old sod was in the White House. It got so cozy that a famous cartoon of the period shows Tip O’Neill and Reagan as two old Irish fishwives haggling over costs

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