Hey look! Non Kansas City Irish Events in America are now linked to from every page - over there on the far right under Main […]

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You might live in the centre of America, but it’s not the centre of the world.
TODAY at 1:45pm Kansas City time, Ireland play San Marino […]

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Finding Money
You know that old joke? About the Irish man emigrating to America because he hears the streets there are paved with gold, and when […]

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The MLS (Major League Soccer) announced its full schedule for the 2007 season today and I don’t understand why it’s turned into the David Beckham […]

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Kansas City’s The Elders get a name check in a feature on The Mar Theatre in Wilmington, IL where they played a gig last year. […]

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Wolfstone, visitors to Kansas City in 2005, and one of the first bands to play what is commonly called ‘Celtic Rock’, have launched their new […]

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First Irish Friday
On Friday March 2nd, “First Friday” in the Crossroads Arts District, from 7-9pm the Bohemian Gallery, is celebrating March with the Irish.
In […]

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Here’s a little something for fans of Kansas City’s Celtic Rock Band The Elders.
Secrets* from Kansas City were Brent Hoad and Norm Dahlor, who are […]

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It’s a rather cool fifty degrees (Fahrenheit obviously) in my house - though inside my fort it’s a toast sixty-two - and if I can […]

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One of the coolest Irish festivals in America celebrating Irish culture, if you’ll excuse my 1970s enthusiasm, is the Sean-nós Milwaukee Festival which takes place […]

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And speaking of websites and chronicles and all things Irish, Kansas City’s Pomegrante went to O’Malley’s Irish Pub of Weston yesterday last Sunday, and had […]

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Stephanie is from Kansas. Just before Christmas she started to chronicle her travels in Ireland.
Based in Cork she’s coping without wireless (wirelessless?), without central […]

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Doherty & Sullivan’s, the Irish Goods store in Lee’s Summit Missouri, are holding their second annual Emerald Isle Parade on Saturday, March 10 at 2:00 […]

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Telephone Directory
-Hello?
-Hello. This is your local telephone company. This is a courtesy phone call to see if you received our new telephone directory. Press or […]

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On Thursday, February 15, 2007 at 8:00pm there is a concert and céilí featuring Máirtín de Cógáin and Friends at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas.
Máirtín […]

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The seventh year of the Irish music industry’s Meteor Ireland Music Awards was held on Thursday and broadcast on RTE last night.
They might not mean […]

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The Young Dubliners new album, With All Due Respect, The Irish Sessions, will be out on the scheduled release date of February 13th but the […]

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Speaking of Croke Park, Kevin Connolly of the BBC has a piece today reflecting on the role of Gaelic Games’ headquarters in “Bloody Sunday”. That’s […]

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Normally at this time of the year I am besieged with suggestions as to where I can watch Ireland in the Six Nations rugby yokeymabob. […]

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Somehow I forgot to tell you that Maura O’Connell is playing iKansas City TONIGHT, Saturday Frebruary 3rd - opening for the legendary John Prine at […]

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