The Lucky Charms are playing at 7pm on Saturday, March 10th 2007 - yes the Saturday before St Patrick’s Day, what some of you […]

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In advance of the Cowboy Junkies appearance at the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow, the Sunday Herald has a long piece about an old cowboy […]

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Of The Morning
-What did he say it was called?
-’The Lark of the Morning’
-Oh
-And then he made a joke
-I like that
-He said “or sandwiches at 4am”
-‘The […]

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I’ve been meaning to post on the American release of The Wind That Shakes The Barley since it was first announced back in August. It’s […]

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Beehive Hut
12″ x 16″
Available as print only. Prices start from $25.47

Here’s a painting of a Beehive Hut - Clochán - on the Dingle peninsula in […]

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Assuming you don’t already call Ireland from the US for free, you should be interested in a new way you can do so, called AllFreeCalls.net.
Free? […]

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Yesterday Damien opened the nominations for the Irish Blog Awards.
They’ll be open until 5:59pm (KC time) on Friday January 26th. The awards themselves take place […]

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Kansas is very good at some things. I once read a scientific debunking of the popular belief that Kansas was flatter than a pancake. Well […]

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Tickets to see legendary Cork performer Jimmy Crowley on January 18 in the exclusivity of Delahunt’s Cafe & are now available from the cafe for […]

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Before a summer of Irish and Celtic festivals, The Elders are playing more gigs in Kansas City, MO than I can keep up with.
Friday, February […]

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As promised yesterday, here are three of my abstract paintings, each one on offer for $99
All are unframed - I just don’t have enough frames […]

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Once upon a time, back when I used to watch television, I was in Dublin with my friend from around the corner and we were […]

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With Seven Nations playing Kansas City next month, you might be interested in an interview chief songwriter and lead singer Kirk McLeod just did with […]

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Today’s Kansas City Star has a tribute to a member of the Irish community who sadly passed on December 29.
Teresa McGilley Redlingshafer, of Overland Park, […]

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My favourite Roscommon paper, The Roscommon Herald, has more details on how the USHA National Championships in Overland Park, KS went down, just after Christmas. […]

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I think I’ll offer three of my abstract paintings tomorrow, each for $99.
Being abstract this will make it easier for you to lie to […]

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The last time Kansas City’s Irish-named bookstore, Bloomsday Books, hosted an Irish music gig, there was a crowd of thirty of us, swilling wine and […]

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Tribe, the much awaited new CD by Luka Bloom, the man who almost played Kansas City in 2006, is finally finished.
Tribe is a collaboration […]

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Colonialism is rendered in that autobiography as a tyranny of books over life; and so the nervous youth begins with borrowed styles, in the manner […]

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A woman gave me her trolley at Aldi today. She wouldn’t take the quarter from me.
It occurred to me that so many people could […]

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