Jackie by Gerard Humphreys
Outside at the Yeats Memorial in St Stephen’s Green
Jacqueline and John F Kennedy were, for a brief period during the twentieth century, the ultimate power couple. An enigma to the outside world, Jackie had long confided in an Irish chaplain, a contemporary and associate of Michael Collins, Lady Lavery and George Bernard Shaw, who she befriended when visiting Ireland for the first time in 1951 and who became her spiritual advisor.
Long revered as an icon of elegance and grace, Jackie was by JFK’s side on the road to the White House and she was herself a champion of civil rights and the arts. Jackie was beside her beloved John on that fateful day when he was struck down by an assassin’s bullet.
Through the lens of this abiding friendship, we travel with Jackie as the mystery, the contradictions and the tragedy of her life [their lives] is revealed.
