ETH in Kansas City
Posted by: eolai on May 31st, 2006
If I say Neil Dorfsman to you, what Irish music do you think of? Paul Brady, Solas? Okay very good, but as it happens […]
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Roger Coleman and Joe Miquelon
Posted by: eolai on May 31st, 2006
The Kansas City Star today features an article on The Elders‘ keyboard player, Joe Miquelon, and Roger Coleman from midtown’s Pilgrim Chapel. It’s an interesting […]
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Encore: 50 More Conservative Songs
Posted by: eolai on May 31st, 2006
Speaking of the National Review list of Top 50 Conservative Rock Songs of All Time (or the last fifty years, if you prefer), John J. […]
Irish Conversation in the American Midwest #11
Posted by: eolai on May 31st, 2006
Jimmy
-Where are you from
-Ireland. Dublin
-Ahh, Jimmy
-Jimmy?
-Yes. I have a friend called Jimmy. He is from Dublin
-I see
-Do you know him?
-Jimmy?
-Yes
-Jimmy from Dublin?
-Yes
-He lives in Dublin?
-Yes
-Just […]
Normal Service for Kansas City Irish
Posted by: eolai on May 31st, 2006
It’s been a huge three days for Irish KC, with thousands of visitors due to the Celtic Block Party, the Ken Loach Cannes win, and […]
Lunasa: Sean Smyth Interview
Posted by: eolai on May 30th, 2006
Although this interview with Lúnasa’s Sean Smyth is in advance of a prestigious concert in Ireland, and not one in Kansas city or the Midwest, […]
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Bubble Hits: Irish Music Channel
Posted by: eolai on May 30th, 2006
Bubble Hits is a new Irish-owned TV music channel that will broadcast to over 8 million homes in Ireland and the UK starting this summer. […]
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Feast or Famine: Emigration Assistance
Posted by: eolai on May 30th, 2006
Once upon an unemployed time in Ireland, I ran out of Unemployment Benefit and was thus applying for means-based Unemployment Assistance. The Benefit that had […]
English Conversations in the American Midwest
Posted by: eolai on May 30th, 2006
Speaking of things British, you know what I miss leads me to celebrate conversations, well Kansas City based documentary-maker Roldy has been having his own […]
Flannigan’s it is, so
Posted by: eolai on May 30th, 2006
Speaking of women cavorting alone on beds - speaking to myself you understand - I was thinking of everyone’s favourite woman of Joyce, Fionnuala Flanagan. […]
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Bloomsday Under Threat
Posted by: eolai on May 30th, 2006
Bloomsday, June 16, 1904 - the date of the setting of Ulysses, and celebrated for about seventy years - might be getting a new holiday […]
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The Hairdressers Guide to Information Technology #5
Posted by: eolai on May 29th, 2006
HGIT #5 - gruaig : hair
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Loach Irish Film Wins Cannes Big Prize
Posted by: eolai on May 28th, 2006
Ken Loach’s The Wind That Shakes The Barley, the film about the Irish War of Independence and following Irish Civil War, has won the top […]
Irish Conversation in a Dublin Pub #14
Posted by: eolai on May 28th, 2006
Safety Pin
-You’re doing things different this time
-I know, I even wear shoes most of the time
-But you keep your trousers fastened by a safety pin
-That’s […]
Part-time Irish Rock Star Learns Piano
Posted by: eolai on May 28th, 2006
Speaking of Irish singers and Bamoko, there’s a podcast interview by Larry Elliott, the Guardian’s economics editor, with Mr Bono over in Mali at the […]
Irish Conversation in the American Midwest #10
Posted by: eolai on May 27th, 2006
European Food
-Hey, you’re from Europe, right?
-Yes
-Have you ever eaten their food?
-European food?
-Yes. Don’t you think it’s weird?
-What do you mean?
-Like the Mediterranean, have you ever […]
Liam O Maonlai News
Posted by: eolai on May 27th, 2006
Liam O Maonlai has just updated his site where he lets us know that he too is now spending too much of his life on […]
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Celtic Block Party Music
Posted by: eolai on May 27th, 2006
Just to confirm, with tomorrow’s Celtic Block Party at Governor Stumpy’s running from 3-9pm, the entertainment starts with Jim Cosgrove at 3:00pm, followed by Fireside, […]
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Daniel O’Donnell: He’s Coming to Missouri
Posted by: eolai on May 27th, 2006
You might think of him as a classy Irish tenor; I never have. In five months he’ll own Missouri. Right now he’s touring the northeast […]
Irish and British Passports: FIFA Go Mad
Posted by: eolai on May 27th, 2006
Much more important to Northen Irish football than losing to Romania in the Midwest, is FIFA’s announcement that to play for Northern Ireland you must […]
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