For anybody following the cricket without actually watching it - which is kind of like the opposite of stalking, I imagine - Ireland were doing […]

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Scene: Kansas City, cold, sunny, Easter
-You’re awful quiet
-I was born quiet
-Were you born awful?
-That came later
-Our doing?
-Is that a question?
-Have you nothing to say?
-I have […]

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The first time I didn’t fast on a Good Friday I was on a train in North Wales.
I didn’t know I wasn’t fasting; after my […]

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Irish blood, English heart, Spanish Liver, Italian Sausage. Steven Patrick Morrissey is coming to Kansas City, Missouri. Oh, and St Louis.
Devious, truculent and unreliable; words […]

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I love this video.
Kansas City’s Happy-in-Bag the other day was lamenting the lack of interest in boxing here in the US these days, and how […]

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Here’s something I was going to do a list of, but I’ve decided to post them one at a time and then to release the […]

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The next few gigs for The Lucky Charms will be in Leavenworth, Kansas. I think I have them on the Events Calendar but here’s […]

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Do you remember young Stephanie from Kansas?
Well of late in Ireland Stephanie has been getting around. Killarney, Bantry, and the North. And she’s been […]

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Not having phoned home for a few days I’ve missed the weather reports that admittedly I could access by typing something into a browser.
Ah […]

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O’Malley’s Irish Pub and the Weston Brewing Company are celebrating a new annual event.
This Saturday, April 7, 2007, Brew Year’s Eve is marking the date […]

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The entry for one of the questions I am asked most frequently in Kansas City, FAIQ #8: What’s Your Favourite Irish Song? has had the […]

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Dear Kansas City, the category I refer to as the celebration of the typically less-celebrated differences between Ireland and America has had the index order […]

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Hosting Tourists
Before I moved to the US, hosting tourists in Ireland is something I did my fair share of. Actually I think I did more […]

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On Saturday April 21 2007 Kansas City trio Tullamore are appearing at what is now the 5th annual Rogue’s Gallery Spring Hooley.
Tullamore are Mary Clavey, […]

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More than your neighbour, are you:
• Feeling a bit more connected to the earth?
• Living life as if it will go on long after death?
• […]

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I’ve been following the story of Fred Denney and the Polski Day Parade in KCK, and it all seems like a script by Christopher Guest.
Denney’s […]

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If you’re thinking of opening an Irish pub in America, or anywhere for that matter, including conceiveably Ireland, there’s a feature in the Globe and […]

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One of those bad computer days. The computer, being the bad one, has gobbled up posts before they could appear in front your appreciating eyes.
The […]

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Andy Anderson is a regular attendee at performances by Eddie Delahunt, Brett Gibson & Gabriel Reyes, and on special nights you get to hear Andy’s […]

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It’s Sunday, and it’s sunny, so naturally I am indoors reading the papers.
Reading the papers of course involves no actual paper anymore, which is a […]

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