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JOHN BRENNAN PLANS TO RETIRE IN IRELAND
Diffley added: "He said to us that he wanted to retire here. He told us that if he got this post he'd do his term and then hopefully like to come home and settle here.”
Brennan’s cousin who lives in Lecarrow, Co Roscommon, says the CIA adviser doesn’t usually give advance notice of his trips.
"My mother Bridie is his father's sister and he always pays a visit. The trip in November was a flying visit. He had been in Paris and came over to see us all. We didn't know he was coming at all. That's the way he is."
Brennan’s cousin did try to probe the CIA director about his work, but the Irish American remained tight lipped.
"We were trying to get it out of him about the Bin Laden raid but he wasn't saying a word. He joked that we were like the Irish mafia," recalled Diffley.
The close family member said his cousin is like any average joe.
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A Man in Full - exclusive interview with CIA Director John Brennan
https://www.irishcentral.com/opinion/niallodowd/a-man-in-full-interview-with-cia-director-john-brennan
Owen Brennan, father of CIA Director John Brennan and a native of County Roscommon, was once a blacksmith in his native land. He worked for an Anglo-Irish family, the McCalmonts, in what is now the Mount Juliet Estate, complete with plush hotel and golf course, in County Kilkenny. Owen slept upstairs from the stables in a loft.
Entering the Big House was forbidden, especially for a lowly blacksmith who was expected to know his station.
Now 96 and healthy, Owen Brennan received the gift of a lifetime from his two sons, Tom and John, when they took him to Ireland for “The Gathering” of emigrants from all over the world in 2015.
The finest suite in Mount Juliet, the house whose door he never darkened, was reserved for him. Owen and his family had come a long way.
Soon after working at Mount Juliet and with no prospects in 1948, Owen Brennan took the trail of tears to America, just one among countless millions of emigrants setting out for the “Bright City,” as the Irish old timers called New York.
The fact that his son John Owen Brennan now 61, has ascended to CIA Director, one of the highest jobs in the United States government, charged with protecting the nation from any and all threats, says an extraordinary amount about the Brennans and the American Dream.
The twain continue to meet. The Irish influence in John Brennan’s life is still strong. He can hold down a discussion on Gaelic games, talk about his father's hero worship for the All-Ireland winning Roscommon teams of 1943 and 1944, and wave away a story about him becoming next United States ambassador to Ireland.
“Well it would be a wonderful, wonderful opportunity – but there is a long list of other Irish Americans who would like that job,” he said during an interview on a cool and sunny Saturday morning, October 15, at the CIA headquarters in Langley, VA.
As for retiring in Ireland, Brennan says no but wouldn’t mind a holiday home there, somewhere in Connemara which he finds an enchanting land. One of his prize possessions is a hurling stick used in the ancient game, given to him by his good friend Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny. He even has a couple of Irish words, pronouncing his name in Gaelic as Sean O Braonain.
Sean O Braonain
Exchange JOHN for SEAN.
Exchange O BRAONAIN for BRENNAN.
Reconcile re retirement location.
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