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Several recent presidents, including Ronald Regan and Richard Nixon, were of Irish origin, but none was more famously Irish than John F. Kennedy (1917–63). His great-grandfather Patrick Kennedy (1823–58), of Dunganstown, Co. Wexford, married Bridget Murphy, probably of Owenduff, Co. Wexford. In fact, all the president’s great-grandparents were Irish. His middle name, Fitzgerald, is from his mother Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald (1890–1995), whose paternal grandfather and maternal grandmother were Fitzgeralds from Bruff, Co. Limerick. Their surname suggests descent from the Cambro-Norman Geraldines (see p. 195).