St Patrick’s Day 2013 in Kansas City, in links. Music, photos, videos, parades, events, parties, and stories.

   • KC St Patrick’s Day Parade 2013 (11am Broaday, Linwood to 43rd) website
   • Parade After Party at KC Irish Center
   • Kansas City family related to Irish king, Brian Boru?
   • Irish music at O’Malley’s Irish Pub of Weston
   • Bob Reeder’s March 2013 Schedule
   • Irish Soda Bread by Farm to Market Bread Co
   • Browne’s Irish Market on Fox4 KC
   • Dogs in KC Irish Parades 2013
   • Photos of Brookside 2013 St Patrick’s Parade
   • Video of North KC’s Snake Saturday 2013
   • Photos of Snake Saturday 2013 Northland KC
   • Atheist Coalition barred from Kansas City St Patrick’s Day parade
   • Irish Music by Tullamore on St Patrick’s Day
   • Video of St Pat’s Senior Ball 21013
   • Blue Springs - Shortest KC Metro area parade
   • Keli O’Neill Wenzel in the Paper
   • Green Drinks for St Patrick’s Day
   • Getting Lucky for St Patrick’s Day
   • DeSoto Family tradition in KC Parade
   • Photos Shawnee St Patrick’s Parade
   • Snake Saturday Grand Marshall Celebration
   • Photos of Martin City St Patrick’s Parade
   • KMBC TV’s Michael Mahoney - Irish America by the Numbers

Read: The KC St Patrick’s Day 2013 Links »

To celebrate St Patrick’s Day 2013, the Book of Kells for iPad is free today. Priced at $12.99 at its launch last year, this rather a bargain.

If you have an iPad, and the slightest genuine interest in Irish culture, you really really want this.

The Book of Kells attracts over half a million visitors in Ireland (in Trinity College in Dublin) every year, where - due to its age and condition - pages are turned about once a day. So to see it all you’d need to stay in Ireland for 2 years. Now though, with the app, you can now see it, page by page, in high resolution in your own home.

   • All 680 surviving pages of Ireland’s most famous illuminated manuscript.
   • 21 pages are featured up to 6 times their actual size.
   • Over 600 examples of letters, animals, and other symbols

Here’s the link on itunes

The Book of Kells for iPad follows on from the popular award-winning Book of Kells DVD-ROM which was available until June 2012. With its high quality screen and physical size akin to that of the manuscript, the iPad is seen as an ideal platform to showcase the decorative skills of the scribes and the rich and varied colours used in the drawings.

At the moment there are no versions for Android or other tablets. The current version of the app works on any iPad or iPad mini running iOS 5.1 or later

The DVD-ROM was discontinued.

Read: Official Book of Kells App Free Just for Today »

There’s almost always live Irish music at O’Malley’s 1842 Irish pub of Weston, Missouri, but there’s quite a bit of it this St. Patrick’s Week of 2013.

Friday March 15
   • Chance the Arm 6:30-8:30 Hall Stage
   • Connacht Town 9:00-12:00 Hall Stage
   • Bob Reeder - Upper Pub

Saturday March 16
   • Chance the Arm 6:30-8:30 Hall Stage
   • Connacht Town 9:00-12:00 Hall Stage
   • Bob Reeder - Upper Pub

Sunday March 17 - St Patrick’s Day
   • Bob Reeder - Upper Pub
   • The Kelihans - 11:30 -3:30 Lower
   • Tullamore - 4:00-7:30 Lower
   • Connacht Town 8:00-12:00 Lower

O’Malley’s Pub is at 500 Welt Street in the Weston, Missouri. It’s a short enough drive north from Kansas City, and oh so worth it for one of the most special pubs you’ll find anywhere.

Read: St Patrick’s 2013 Irish Festival of Music at O’Malley’s »

From the people of Ireland to the people of the world. A History of Ireland in 100 Objects.

You’ll want this, Kansas City. More than drinking beer in midtown. If you want to learn.

To celebrate the Irish EU Presidency and St Patrick’s Day, the Royal Irish Academy, the National Museum of Ireland and the Irish Times are offering a free digital gift ‘from the people of Ireland to the world’.

The gift is an eBook or app of A History of Ireland in 100 Objects by Fintan O’Toole, which has also just been published in hardcopy.

Download your free gift at: www.eu2013.ie/100objects

iPhone, iPad, Kindle Fire and Android tablets.

Watch Fintan explain the book to you here:

Read: Free Gift from the People of Ireland to the World »

Kansas City’s Farm to Market Bread Co. are celebrating St. Patrick’s Day with locally, handcrafted Irish Soda Bread available for just a very short time, from March 9th through March 17th.

Their Irish Soda Bread is packed with raisins, which is grand, and topped with sugar, which reminds me it’s in America.

Farm to Market Brad Company’s Irish Soda Bread can be found at the following grocery store locations:

  • Cosentino’s Brookside Market
  • Cosentino’s Downtown Market
  • Cosentino’s Price Chopper Brookside
  • Cosentino’s Price Chopper 103rd & State Line
  • Cosentino’s Price Chopper 95th & Mission

  • Hy-Vee Prairie Village
  • Hy-Vee 135th & Antioch
  • Hy-Vee Liberty

  • Door to Door Organics
  • All Hen House Locations

See the Farm to Market Bread Co. official website

Irish French Toast
Also see Eat It KC for using Farm to Market Bread Co’s Irish Soda Bread to make Irish French toast. It means Guinness, syrup, and of course more sugar.

Pitch Weekly
The soda bread also makes an appearance in Fat City in the Pitch, where you get to see the bread cut, and the not altogether bad suggestion that it may be better on the second day toasted with blackberry jam.

See More on Irish Food & Eating:
   • Is Ireland Really Green, Potato-Eating, and Red-Haired ?
   • Do You Eat Turkey at Christmas in Ireland?
   • History of an Irish Pub
   • A sausage in Ireland is NOT called a ‘banger’
   • Fun in Ireland versus Fun in America

Read: Irish Soda Bread by Farm To Market Bread Co »

Event
The 2013 Snake Saturday Parade & Festival takes place on Saturday, March 16, 2013 • 10:00AM - 3:00PM.

Theme
The parade theme is “Irish Roots and Cowboy Boots”.

Goal
Snake Saturday Parade & Festival Goal: To award over $50,000 in prize monies to 50–100 local charities, and to acknowledge participants, community members and sponsors for their continued support in making Snake Saturday Parade & Festival a huge success that helps so many people.

History
Snake Saturday Parade & Festival in North Kansas City, MO began in 1983 as a promotion for Rodeway Inn. There were 4 floats and a Grand Marshal. The temperature was 10 degrees, so the parade took place in the motel parking lot allowing people to view from their rooms and the coffee shop. The parade winner that year was a young lady, who rode on the back of a Harley Davidson motorcycle wearing a bright green bikini. The parade has celebrated every year since, whatever the weather and always on the Saturday before St. Patrick’s Day.

Read
See also: Snake Saturday event Still Needs Volunteers
Visit Snake Saturday’s official website

Location
Festival grounds border Armour Road on the north and 18th Avenue on the south, Fayette on the west and Howell on the east.

Carnival
The Snake Saturday Carnival area will open up on Friday evening for those looking to venture out for some fun with the kids (or even a date night!) Food vendors and the Free kids area will add to the excitement on Saturday from 10am-3pm, with the Parade starting at 11am!

Family-friendly
Snake Saturday is a family-friendly event, with no open alcohol containers allowed outside the bars and restaurants.

Read: Snake Saturday 2013 - Irish Roots & Cowboy Boots »

12 of the first 16 Kansas City police officers killed on duty were Irish or Irish-born.

In 1867 or so Dennis Malloy from County Clare helped found the police force in Kansas City. Naturally he recruited from friends and people he knew so up to 3 quarters of the force in the early days were Irish.

In 1869 tens of thousands of people gathered on the banks of the Missouri to celebrate the opening of the Hannibal Bridge. It’s a huge celebration for a town which just 4 years earlier had a population of just 4,000. The quarter-mile long bridge on 7 piers was to make Kansas City a commercial hub for the railroads expanding to the west and one of the most important factors in the growth of KC into a city bigger than all others in the region. Dennis Malloy’s wife, Sarah, prepared the barbecue to feed those thousands celebrating the bridge’s opening.

You can hear such tidbits if you listen back on KCUR to local KC author Pat O’Neill talk with Steve Kraske about how the Irish were stitched into the fabric of Kansas City in the early days - on both sides of the law. It’s 40 minutes long and as ever with Pat, very entertaining.

Some Reading:
   • History of the Police Department (Published in the Kansas City Journal of Commerce
January 27, 1870)
   • Bridge to the Future (KC Library - Kansas City History by Jason Roe, doctoral student, Department of History, University of Kansas)
   • Lawyers, Lawmen & Outlaws: The Irish In KC (KCUR by Steve Kraske and Danie Alexander)

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Read: Both Sides of the Law: The Irish in Kansas City »