Enda Kenny - Exclusive Interview

A Book with Legs

Smead Capital Management

Investing, Business, Management

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this special bonus episode, Cole Smead and Conor O’Callaghan sit down with former Taoiseach of Ireland Enda Kenny to dive deeper into Ireland’s rich history and the Great Famine. They also explore the spread of the Irish people and their modern identity. Kenny reflects on his experience as a politician, including run-ins with U.S. Presidents and what it means to be a leader.

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0:00.0	You're listening to A Book with Legs, a podcast presented by Smead Capital Management.
0:07.0	At Smead Capital Management, we advise investors who play the long game.
0:12.0	You can learn more at Smeadcap.com or by calling your financial advisor.
0:37.9	Welcome to a book with legs podcast. I'm Cole Smead, CEO, and portfolio manager here at Smead Capital Management. At our firm, we are readers, and we believe in the power of books to help shaped informed investors. In this podcast, we speak to great authors about their writings. The late great Charlie Munger prescribed using multiple mental models and analysis. We analyze their work through the lens of business, markets, and people.
0:44.6	This is bonus content to go deeper on our discussion from Padraig Scanlan's book,
0:48.8	Rod, hosting this episode with me as our, again, resident Irish citizen, our chief operating officer,
0:55.0	Connell Callahan.
0:56.0	Connor, thanks for joining me.
0:58.0	Glad to be here.
0:59.0	This is going to be a really exciting one.
1:00.0	This will be really fun.
1:01.0	This is a person that I got to know through you and is a very warm person.
1:06.0	And I would also say, I've never had someone treat me so grandfatherly and you love the person as soon as you meet him, which makes him just an incredible person to be around.
1:18.2	In this episode, we are going to discuss the history of the Irish potato famine with a gentleman who was the Taoiseach from 2011 and 2017.
1:26.6	Joining us today is Enda Kenny.
1:28.5	Mr. Kenney, so glad you're here with us.
1:31.4	Well, I'm very glad to join you on a subject that is imprinted on the DNA of all people.
1:39.6	Enda, it's well known that you are a proud Mayo Man, Kanoct, is the hardest hit area of Ireland
1:45.3	during the potato famine.
1:46.8	Did this affect those places like Mayo even more than the rest of the country?
1:51.7	And what are the lessons or horrors that we take away from this in the effects of Irish
1:56.7	culture?
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