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Acclaimed Irish broadcaster and Late Late Show host Ryan Tubridy and Ireland's current laureate for children's literature, illustrator P.J. Lynch, discussed President Kennedy's 1963 visit to Ireland with author and Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe journalist Kevin Cullen.

Boston Police Commissioner William B. Evans, the Rev. Mark V. Scott, Associate Pastor at the Azusa Christian Community and member of the City of Boston's Streetworker Team, and the Rev. Jeffrey L. Brown, founder of RECAP (Rebuilding Every Community Around Peace), discussed the successes and challenges facing the community. Byron Barnett, reporter for 7News WHDH and host of Urban Update, moderated.

Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith discussed her new book The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy with her son Stephen Smith. Pulitzer Prize-winning former Boston Globe columnist Eileen McNamara moderated.

On the eve of the inauguration, Tom Ashbrook, host of WBUR’s On Point, moderated a discussion on opportunities and challenges for the Trump administration with Brian McGrory, editor of The Boston Globe; Heather Cox Richardson, historian at Boston College and author of To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party; and Ron Suskind, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and director of the Investigative Journalism Project at Harvard Law School.

John Dickerson, moderator of Face the Nation, Political Director of CBS News and Slate magazine columnist, discussed his new book Whistlestop: My Favorite Stories from Presidential Campaign History with longtime ABC correspondent and Harvard Institute of Politics Fellow Ann Compton.

Mark Shriver, author of Pilgrimage: My Search for the Real Pope Francis and president of the Save the Children Action Network, and J. Bryan Hehir, Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life at Harvard University and Secretary for Health Care and Social Services in the Archdiocese of Boston, discussed Pope Francis and the role of the Pope in the modern world. Margery Eagan, co-host of Boston Public Radio on WGBH 89.7, moderated.

Lesley M. M. Blume discussed her new book, Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, with Susan Beegel, former editor in chief of The Hemingway Review.

Award-winning journalist Larry Tye discussed his new book Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon. Pulitzer Prize-winning former Boston Globe columnist Eileen McNamara moderated.

Join Master of Ceremonies Elvis Costello to celebrate 2016 PEN Lyric honorees John Prine and Kathleen Brennan & Tom Waits.

Washington Post columnist and political commentator E.J. Dionne Jr. discussed his new book, Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatism from Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond with David Gergen, senior political analyst for CNN and professor of public service and co-director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School.