Local Kansas City long-distance walker and blogger, Scoot, has a great post on his top 20 bars.
It’s not limited to Kansas City or the KC […]

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This question I am frequently asked in America, simply because I am Irish, is one of the most stupid.
Though not the most stupid Irish […]

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My sources tell me that Irish language classes are under consideration for Kansas City’s Irish Museum & Cultural Center (IMCC).
The IMCC is based in Union […]

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On Thursday June 21, 2007 Seven Nations are playing Davey’s Uptown Rambler’s Club in Kansas City, Missouri.
The event is billed as “an early evening with […]

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Boys and girls, we have a date.
And that’s all I can say for now. There’ll be more nearer the time. What time? This time.
I just […]

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The Kansas City School of Irish Music has now finished the Winter/Spring set of classes.
Turlach Boylan tells me that he’s not planning to run […]

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So I walk into an Irish pub, an authentic Irish pub no less.
The pub is located in the prime shopping district of a foreign land.
It […]

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Of interest to Irish Trad fans in the Midwest is a great offer on CD Baby right now on Bohola CDs.
Bohola are based in Chicago […]

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The story of an Irish cross. It starts in Kansas City and it ends in Kansas City.
The West Central Tribune has the details of Ryan […]

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For any Irish who may be homesick in America, though it may well apply to Irish emigrants in other parts of the world, here’s a […]

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With apologies to anybody from Limerick, and to anybody who doesn’t care, Dublin comedian Andrew Maxwell HERE on the Guardian gives one of his 6 […]

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• Kerry, Meath and Donegal in bed together?
• Where in Ireland is Glasgow?
• Irish Scarecrow?
• Not Irish milk
• Pat Short’s Jumbo Irish Roll with lyrics […]

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Here’s your Sunday Short film for you. How Derry Began.
It’s an 8-minute animated history of Derry City, starting in the Ice-Age when Derry was an […]

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Whoops, I was watching for it and then I got distracted when the dog picked an argument over the importance of hairstyles in Irish electronica. […]

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Memorial Day Weekend in Kansas City. Some Irish events for you.
• Irish Award-winning film The Wind That Shakes The Barley is held over at the […]

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Ten blocks from the Uptown Theatre they were easy to spot.
Looking like people who had escaped from bedsits 20 years ago they were now […]

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It’s time again for Kansas City’s little Irish festival that is the Celtic Block Party in Waldo right by Brookside.
This is the 5th Annual Celtic […]

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Kansas City Irish dancer, Hailey Beebe, is featured in the NorthEast Johnson County Sun in advance of her participation in the national championships in Ottawa, […]

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Over the last year we’ve featured Ireland’s Balcony TV here on Irish KC quite a few times.
Well, to celebrate their first year Balcony TV […]

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Go to Southwest Boulevard. Scramble up the hill on the north side. And Sketch.
Nobody ever talks about the trains in Kansas City. Even Union Station […]

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