Free beer and hot weather. An intoxicating combination.
And it’s probably best to go to bed the night before such a day.
I did my reading, spotting […]

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There are a a couple of scary contests at the annual Irish Fest that supports and is held on the grounds of the Irish American […]

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A year ago today I wrote this about Fathers’ Day.
Such is the annual nature of holidays that not much is different a year on.
And that’s […]

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So I’m sitting on the small ivy-covered wall, listening to live music and getting my bottom bitten, and I’m thinking, god my head hurts.
Don’t […]

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So I’m cycling around Kansas City, thinking I wish I was at a festival, an Irish festival, with music and dancing and art and food. […]

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After the great success in community solutions that was the original Infrequently Asked Irish KC Questions, I can’t resist doing a further round.
Remember these are […]

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People have been asking me how fared the nearest to a representative Kansas City had at the inaugural Balcony TV awards.
Well Máirtín de Cógáin didn’t […]

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Tullamore, one of the biggest trad bands in the midwest, are leaving their Kansas City base this week as they embark on a major tour […]

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Eagle-eyed Elders fans, (or should that be owl-eared?) spotted two new songs tried out by The Elders last weekend at the Scottish Festival in Riverside, […]

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So I was reading the summer 2007 issue of Sing Out! at the weekend, the folk magazine co-founded by Pete Seeger for song swapping purposes, […]

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When I was planning to cycle across America, and for good measure had a plan to cycle down it, up it, and down it again […]

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Bloomsday 2007. An Irish celebration in Kansas City.
Why would you go?
1. It’s FREE
2. There’s Beer
3. The book is the laugh-out-loud kind of fun
4. You don’t […]

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Alas Stoneking is not a new verb. Monica Moore Stoneking is teaching Irish step-dancing lessons in Columbia, Missouri.
According to the Columbia Tribune Monica, through her […]

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Côr Cymry Gogledd America, The North American Welsh Choir, will perform on Saturday, July 7, 2007 at 7:30 pm at the Community Christian Church, 4601 […]

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John Mark Eberhart in the Kansas City Star gives a plug to the Bloomsday Celebration on Saturday June 16, 2007.
Live Irish music from Eddie Delahunt […]

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Back in Ireland I lived with somebody who one day had to attend something that was judged by a small panel on which sat Gabriel […]

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June. What do you think of in the middle of the year? I know what I think of. Lists. From the previous year.
Why do […]

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For anyone wondering why doing an interview with Damien Dempsey is something to make a bit of fuss about, here’s a selection of videos of […]

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Looking for the 2009 Kansas City Scottish Festival - click here
The information below relates to the 2007 festival.
The 2007 Kansas City Highland Games is on […]

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A word on the 2007 Midwest Regional Fleadh Cheoil which was a couple of weeks back in St Louis. The Fleadh has a habit of […]

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