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Tropical Storm Danny was bearing down on New England as Boston got ready to lay her favorite son to rest; so President Obama cut his vacation short and flew in Friday night, so that nothing could keep him from Saturday morning's mass for Senator Edward Kennedy. In Washington, busloads...
So while Hume described him on Wednesday as "a great friend of Ireland and great supporter of the peace process," what will be Kennedy's lasting legacy in Northern Ireland?
"You get into the realms of trying to assess the behind-the-scenes influence that he exerted, and that's not so easy," says Graham Walker, professor of political history at Queen's University in Belfast. "Ted Kennedy's role in that era was keeping the wilder voices of Irish...
On Thursday, as a public book of condolence for Kennedy was opened at the U.S. Consulate in Belfast, a commemoration was held in the small town of Warrenpoint to mark the 30th anniversary of one of the bloodiest days in the Troubles, when 18 British soldiers were killed by a...
See TIME's complete Ted Kennedy coverage.