A great Irish chieftain has passed

08/26/2009 09:30 PM Teddy, they hardly knew you. To call you the greatest of all the Kennedys might strike some as lofty ... FULL STORY >

The lion in winter

Edward Kennedy pulled off the seemingly impossible task of following in the footsteps of two older brothers who had become American icons overnight. FULL STORY >

A hero for the Irish peace process

Conor O'Clery: I first came to know Kennedy well during the “visa wars” of 1994 when the Clinton White House defied the wrath of the British to grant Gerry Adams a U.S. visa. FULL STORY >

Real Irish send-off in Boston

Thousands of mourners lined the rain-swept streets to say farewell as the hearse carrying Kennedy left Boston's famous "Mission Church" in Roxbury. FULL STORY >

Ireland mourns a ‘true friend’

Nowhere outside the United States is the passing of Senator Edward Kennedy being mourned as much as in Ireland, the country from where his ancestors emigrated during the potato famine of the 19th century and to which he helped bring peace in recent years. FULL STORY >

Undocumented Irish lose champion

Senator Edward Kennedy - who freely acknowledged that his own family would not be allowed to immigrate to the U.S. now - was a real champion for the undocumented Irish. FULL STORY >

A staggering blow for Ireland

Niall O'Dowd: 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. FULL STORY >

Kennedy and Dodd's trip to Ireland

A carefully constructed model of a Dingle currach sits proudly on Rose Kennedy’s piano in the family’s Massachusetts home in Hyannisport. Ted liked to use it to “assure future generations of Kennedys that the Irish truly did discover America, after all.” FULL STORY >

Kennedy 'wanted to go to heaven'

WITH VIDEO: The Irish priest at Teddy Kennedy’s side as he died says “Teddy wanted to go, he went in peace and it was beautiful.” Monsignor Patrick Tarrant, a native of Cork who has been a priest for 56 years, was called to the Kennedy home on Tuesday evening from the nearby Our Lady of Victory Parish. FULL STORY >

Kennedy's poignant letter to Pope

Senator Edward Kennedy spoke from beyond the grave last night at Arlington national cemetery. Reading from a letter that Kennedy had sent to the Pope in July; Cardinal Theodore McCarrick revealed just how strong Ted Kennedy's Catholic faith was. FULL STORY >

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