Téada, tenor Michael Londra, harpist Grainne Hambly and uilleann piper Tommy Martin - all names in the Irish traditional music field known to Missouri and […]

Read: Téada: Irish Christmas in America »

Those of you who enjoyed Millish in Kansas City in September gone, might be interested to know that on Labor Day weekend 2007 Millish are […]

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Q. What’s With You Irish And All This Guilt Stuff?
A. I like guilt. And I think it gets a bad rap.
People who go around […]

Read: FAIQ #18: What’s With You Irish And All This Guilt Stuff? »

On December 16, 2006 at 4pm there is a fundraiser at WJ McBride’s Irish Pub in Overland Park, Kansas, (the original one) to support the […]

Read: Children for Peace in Ireland: Benefit »

NOTE: This post was nominated for the Irish Blog Awards 2007.
It was nominated in the Most Humorous Post category.
In September 2010 this story was published […]

Read: A Kansas City Phone Call To An Irish Mother »

Today sees the departure from Kansas City after seven years of an Irish man called Alfie, as he returns to live in Ireland.
When I […]

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Q. Why Don’t You Look On The Bright Side?
A. One should always look for the negative.
If nothing else it kinda helps in recognising […]

Read: FAIQ #17 : Why Don’t You Look On The Bright Side? »

Not long before I arrived in Kansas City, seven years, eight months and four days ago, I went for walk in northern England. An eighty […]

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Paul Byrne, brother of The Elders‘ frontman Ian, tells us that the Wicklow singer is on Celtic Heartland with Grace McKinley on KZUM, 89.3FM on […]

Read: The Elders’ Ian Byrne on the Radio »

Taking Your Turn
-I want you to drive now
-I’m sorry, but I can’t drive
-It’s okay; you can
-But I can’t
-You can; it’s my car
-It doesn’t matter who […]

Read: Irish Conversation in the American Midwest #20 »

Flannigan, in a frenzied flurry, has landed a series of right hooks all over the Kansas City Irish Events Calendar
See Also:
   • Flannigan’s Right Hook
   • The […]

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So it’s grey and windy, a rare treat for Kansas City, and I, refusing to work, have been standing outside for hours inhaling the weather.
For […]

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HGIT #28 - ealaín : art

See Some More Cartoons:
   • HGIT #4 - madra : dog
   • HGIT #12 - ríomhchláraitheoir : programmer
   • HGIT #17 - uachtar […]

Read: The Hairdressers Guide to Information Technology #28 »

Those of you playing close attention to the Kansas City Region Irish Events Calendar, will notice that some things have been added, and some things […]

Read: Events and Non-events in Kansas & Missouri »

Pharmaceuticals
In northern England I have a friend who went to Grimsby in 1983 where he then contracted a cold he has never been able to […]

Read: USA & Ireland Little Differences #11 »

Sunday cinema time.
I’ve been a fan of Ruairí Robinson since his first short film, The House on Dame Street, and eagerly await either a local […]

Read: Fifty Percent Grey by Ruairí Robinson »

The Belfast Telegraph, in the city where the Titanic was built, has discovered Branson, though it appears to think few others have.
Describing Branson as “a […]

Read: Missouri and Belfast: A Titanic Link »

Major event time. Unmissable Irish traditional music in the region - if you’re truly a fan of Irish trad.
We’ve spoken of Tommy Martin before on […]

Read: Misla in Missouri »

Restaurant
-Where are you going?
-Where are YOU going?
-To the restaurant; it’s right there
-But the car is down here
-But the restaurant is just there
-But the car is […]

Read: An Irish Conversation in the American Midwest #19 »

Boys and girls, Eolaí gan Fhéile is leaving Kansas City and moving back to Ireland.
Economic survival. And last Christmas everything changed. Changed utterly.
Irish KC shall […]

Read: Irish KC gets more Irish and less KC »