O’Malley’s Irish Cream Ale is now available on the Kansas side of the Kansas City Metro Area.
More locations are being continually added, and the Weston […]

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I remember being furious with the FAI. Within 12 feet of where I sat, English boots and fists laid into Irish bodies.
It was 1991 and […]

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Some blog fight linking love, from:
• Tony’s Kansas City
And:
• nmrboy
• Primal Sneeze
And in linking love news the other direction, I’ve been stealthily adding sites to […]

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Relevant and irrelevant, Irish and not, current information and historical, and all of it personal, but not too personal, is to be found on the […]

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Late
-Where the hell are they?
-What’s wrong?
-They’re not here
-When are they supposed to be here?
-They said they’d be here at 7
-But it’s only a quarter to […]

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The Kansas City Literary Festival of course isn’t specifically an irish event; it just has a significant Irish element.
Well, if by any chance you’re sick […]

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I’ve never known it so quiet considering all the noise. Like a car crash.
So what happens now?
I wait for the right thing to be done.
And […]

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The award-winning Irish/British film, The Wind That Shakes the Barley is retained by the Tivoli in Kansas City’s Westport (or should that be Westport in […]

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David Shaughnessy, professional photographer (he has a website), and the man responsible for booking Kansas City Irish Festival performers, has been having his annual fit […]

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Donegal. The most northerly county in the Republic of Ireland has been annexed by the UK.
Why? Because it’s in Ulster, like Cavan and Monaghan? Does […]

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This is a large painting I did of the West of Ireland, that I’m offering for sale. (Update: SOLD)
I call it Blue Mountains, Green Grass […]

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I know I have a widgety thing over on the far sidebar to highlight recent comments made on the last ten posts commented on, but […]

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Present Magazine, Kansas City’s increasingly impressive online magazine, has a feature on Connie Dover and her first book of poetry, Winter Count
There are a couple […]

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Did you know there’s an Irish boxer from Ireland based in Oklahoma? I didn’t.
Oisin Fagan is from Dublin but based in Oklahoma, and tomorrow […]

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Anybody interested in the terminology employed on this site might find the conversation that recently took place in the comments on this post illuminating.
While it […]

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One of the most interesting things in the Irish world of Kansas City takes place this coming weekend May 17 through May 20, 2007 - […]

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There’s been a lot of buzz in air travel circles about VLJs lately.
In this instance the phrase air travel circles is meant to apply […]

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A month from today, on Friday June 15, 2007, the Irish movie Once opens at the Tivoli in Kansas City.
Update: Once has been held over […]

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Cathal Dunne in a bad green suit played the Irish festival in Crown Center last year in Kansas City.
Back in 1979 he sang the song […]

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I always find it difficult to identify the first mosquito bite of the year in Kansas City.
During spring I will get several bites, not […]

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