Here’s a couple more shows by the The Lucky Charms at Marfield’s Restaurant & Irish Pub in Leavenworth, Kansas.
Friday Feb 16th : 8pm-12
Friday Mar […]

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Regular visitors to the Events Calendar will have noticed that Eddie Delahunt’s Friday gig at Mike Kelly’s Westsider this week, on Feb 2, 2007, was […]

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Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Muta Maathai was at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas on Sunday.
Her friend Florence Conrad Salisbury recalled Maathai teaching her […]

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Sometimes, believe it or not, I don’t want to talk. Luckily on the web you don’t have to - you can just link.
Some people […]

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Celtic Woman is performing at Kansas City’s Music Hall on Tuesday, April 24, 2007. Go grab your best frocks and your cans of dry ice.
Looking […]

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Sometimes in the Midwest the portrayal of Irishness seems more German than Irish. And sometimes movies in America depicting Irish themes seem more like propaganda […]

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End Times
Fridges all over the middle of America have invitations clamped to them. And I’ll never get used to these invitations to social functions […]

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The 10th Annual Erin Go Bar Hoppin’ Pub Crawl, a benefit for Ozanam sponsored by Boulevard Brewing Co., takes place on Saturday, March 3, 2007.
What […]

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Lest you get very excited about the potential of 7 Nations playing in kansas City with a Symphony Orchestra, you might want to know that […]

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Friday broke my heart.
Well the temperature soared to over ten degrees centigrade and melted my Irish-American dream house. Actually although it was a bit too […]

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Once, the Irish movie made by John Carney starring Glen Hansard of the Frames, and Czech pianist Marketa Irglova, has just won the Audience Award […]

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Mick Flannery. And you should too.
Because it’s the weekend. And my eyes still hurt.
Mick’s website and his MySpace

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Another country majorly afflicted impacted by Irish immigrants, is Australia, and today is Australia day.
Coming the day after Scottish poet Robbie Burns birthday, it strikes […]

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Yesterday, January 25th, was the anniversary of Robbie Burns’ birthday, so it’s the time of year when all over the world, Scottish people have Burns’ […]

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People have been asking me what that song is that Máirtín de Cógáin of Cork has been singing around Kansas City with his brand spanking […]

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Celebrated Irish bigamist Oliver Killeen has been at it again.
Featured in a documentary in Britain last year for being the man who married fourteeen […]

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As Irish KC moves towards the next stage of its development, note that a ton of new categories have been added.
Most of them are musical […]

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Irish Fest has begun announcing its entertainment for the August 2007 Festival.
Featuring music, dance, song, sports, genealogy, poetry, and culture, the Irish Fest has a […]

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One of the best gigs I ever saw was Iggy Pop.
Around the same time I saw Dudu Pukwana, the Go-Betweens, and The Chieftains. It’s […]

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In yesterday’s newsletter sent out by the Elders highlighting a clip of the forthcoming Ben Meade documentary, the eagle-eyed among you will have spotted the […]

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