Tea party stirs Kennedy memories

The country’s ongoing fascination with the Kennedys shows no signs of abating and this weekend, two more scions of the most famous of all Irish-American families are in Ireland for this year’s Kennedy Summer School.

Yesterday, both Ted Kennedy jr — son of the late senator Edward Kennedy — and Rory Kennedy — daughter of the late Bobby Kennedy — landed in the family’s ancestral home at Dunganstown in Co Wexford for a tea party and the summer school’s official opening.

It stirred memories of a famous tea party hosted for the late president John F Kennedy during his visit to Ireland 50 years ago, just months before his assassination and which his niece Rory said were “the happiest four days of his life”.