Welcome to this site which features videos of well-known speeches alongside transcripts of the speeches. The site is for people who:
- enjoy listening to speeches
- want inspiration or ideas
- learn English and want to see exact transcripts
- want to know more about our recent history,
- are addicted to Youtube
- want an easy place to find out if someone really said something!
Let’s start!
- Jill Bolte Taylor: A stroke of insight
- Mitt Romney Concession Speech, 2012
- Winston Churchill: We will fight on the beaches
- Ernest Hemingway: Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1954
- John F Kennedy Visits Ireland: British Pathé (1963)
- Dónal Óg Cusack: Foyle Pride Festival, August 2012
- Ben Chifley: ‘The Light on the Hill’ (1949)
- Barack Obama: “Yes, we can!” New Hampshire, 2008
- Paul Keating: The Redfern Address, 1992
- Wangari Maathai: Nobel Lecture, Oslo (2004)