From their festival performances in Kansas City many folk music fans in KC will be familiar with Ireland’s Fran Harper and Naoimh Penston.
Together with […]

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Rowan, the Celtic and World Music trio based in Lawrence, Kansas are performing TONIGHT, Saturday, March 31, 2007 at 7pm in Columbia, Missouri.
Rowan has been […]

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Well that didn’t take long.
The planned exhibition in New York over Easter, that we mentioned yesterday, of the sculpture of a naked crucified Jesus […]

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On Saturday, March 31, 2007 the WyCo Family Reunion will be held at Kansas City Kansas Community College.
Music, dancing and ethnic foods are all a […]

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Update: It’s over - Ireland all out for 218, England win by 48 runs
Ireland were chasing 267 to win. In theory.
And England finally bowled […]

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I think I gave the impression that the last time Damien Rice came to the KC area - actually Lawrence, Kansas - the best thing […]

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As the western Christian world gears up to celebrating the most important week in the Christian calendar, by gorging on large chocolate eggs (where I’m […]

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Remember a year ago I told you about the almost unbelieveably obnoxious Fred Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas calling Irish poet Desmond Egan a […]

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Paddy O’Quigley’s Irish Pub place, the self-styled Irish Sports Zone (”Neutral Perspectives With Constructive and Controversial Opinions” - seriously) on the SouthSide at 119th & […]

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The Elders are featured in a Mary Houlihan article in the Chicago Sun Times today.
In advance of tonight and tomorrow’s gigs at Ballydoyle in Downer’s […]

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Smelling airports doesn’t count.
The second time I went to Italy I entered at 30mph. On a bicycle. High in the Alps above the French city […]

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Gaelic Storm. Kiss Them, They’re Irish. What would you do if they were gay? Or Mongolian?
I thought I’d posted these music dates a while ago, […]

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Camping Without a Tent
I’ve been invited to go camping here in the middle of America next month. I know what this means.
It doesn’t mean […]

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Daniel O’Donnell is coming to Kansas City. And that’s not the only place in Missouri Daniel is playing.
I’ve already used up the old Daniel O’Donnell […]

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It’s Wednesday in Kansas City
Tune in later, for more difficult questions and answers. You don’t even have to be Irish to play.

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One of my favourite things about the state next door, Kansas, is its fences - particularly the barbed wire variety. It comes from cycling.
On Saturday, […]

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Here’s a familiar post, but what the heck.
Get your green on. You’re Irish today. Yadda, yadda, yadda. Ireland kick off against Slovakia in just under […]

Read: Watch Ireland Slovakia in Euro 2008 Qualifier in KC, MO »

Excuse my manners. Irish KC has had many hundreds of visitors yesterday, and many more today, from Slugger - due to this post on Bertie’s […]

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While I’m not slow to go on about the Kansas City metro area losing an Irish Pub through fire or just losing Irish pubs in […]

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Several years ago I was fortunate to be at a small party in a house in Dublin. Or Galway. Or Antrim. Or somewhere where I […]

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