Galway
$135
SALE: $85 SOLD
12″ x 16″
The Claddagh, but for some reason, probably a cynical marketing one, I named this painting with just the generic Galway title.
I […]

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Speaking of O’Malley’s of Weston, The Prodigals are another high profile band scheduled for a gig there in February.
On Friday February 9, 2007 The Prodigals […]

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Seven Nations will be at O’Malley’s 1841 Irish Pub in Weston, Missouri on Friday, February 23.
This is the night before the Weston Irish Fest […]

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I’m painting away and should have some more to offer at $99 very soon. Most are Irish. I’ll see if I can find some other […]

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Speaking of Muhammad Ali and his visit to Dublin West in 1972 (when he ran over my sister’s toe), the BBC has a nice slideshow […]

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Jim Sheridan’s In America is being shown TONIGHT, Wednesday, January 17, 2007 at 7pm in the Dubliner Pub over in St Louis.
In America is a […]

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In a recent conversation with Pitch Weekly Music Editor, Jason Harper, I bemoaned his lack of enthusiasm for the harpist who made everybody’s Best Of […]

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Q. What is it like to drive on the left-hand side of the road?
A. I hate cars. Everything about them. I couldn’t even tell you […]

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Picture if you will white velvet dust on concrete, or solid glass. That’s what the snow-ice arrangement is outside. It’s where a tennis ball bounces […]

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Actually they’re not new at all; they’ve both been around for yonks, but they are new additions to the Irish section of the far sidebar.
One […]

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Perhaps you heard. We’ve had some ice.
It looks like snow. But it’s hard. Frozen. When it comes down it’s like a soft rain. Very […]

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Those of you who remember the great review the Wichita Eagle gave Seamus Heaney’s District and Circle a couple of months ago, might be particularly […]

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The Glengarry Bhoys have a date listed on their current tour schedule to play the Record Bar in Kansas City’s Westport on March 5, 2007. […]

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Terra Firma, is the title of the new album by Scotland’s Wolfstone, who you may remember played Kansas City in 2005.
Terra Firma is the eighth […]

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Colorado’s Irish Western Rockish Band The Indulgers who had a, ahem, brief pause there before Thanksgiving, roared back with an announcement of a tour of […]

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So it’s MLK Day here in the US of A. What does it mean? What happens?
Well I’m sure plenty of things happen somewhere, but to […]

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The Saw Doctors, the Irish band that launched a thousand copycats in the US, god love us, are playing eight dates in America in March.
Kansas […]

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Matt Hensley will no longer be touring with Flogging Molly. As I mentioned in my last post, Flogging Molly do rather a lot of touring, […]

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Mason Brown, talented local musician and vocalist, announced yesterday that he is beginning a regular Saturday gig at O’Malley’s 1842 Irish Pub in Weston, Missouri. […]

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Speaking of the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow, you can keep an eye on some of the highlights in audio and video through the BBC.
The […]

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