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Lawrence (Larry) Donnelly Law Lecturer, University of Galway Author ‘The Bostonian’

📅Monday, November 25, 2024
🕥11:00 - 12:00
🏟Royal St. George Yacht Club (map)

Larry Donnelly, a native of Boston with US and Irish citizenship, teaches legal skills modules at undergraduate and postgraduate level at University of Galway and is Director of the School of Law’s Clinical Legal Education Programme.

Steeped in Massachusetts politics, Larry is nephew of the late Brian J Donnelly (1946-2023), a Democratic member of the US House of Representatives from 1979 to 1993.

One of Brian Donnelly’s signature accomplishments was the ‘Donnelly Visa Program’, the original beneficiaries of which were Irish persons in the US.

Nowadays, this Program authorizes 50,000 visas annually to nationals of countries statistically deemed under-represented in the current immigrations system.

Congressman Donnelly represented the now defunct 11th Congressional District of Massachusetts. The 11th District had been represented previously been by Speaker T P O’Neill (1912-1994) John F Kennedy (1917-1963), 35th President; Congressman James Michael Curley (1874-1958) four-term Mayor of Boston and 55th Governor of Massachusetts and John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), 6th President and vocal opponent of slavery.

Larry is married to former RTÉ newsreader Eileen Whelan. They reside in Wicklow where Larry can conveniently indulge his great passion for golf.