In this day and age of print-on-demand, where we can self-publish high-quality books - physical quality that is, not necessarily content - there’s no real […]

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Busy busy boys are Flannigan’s Right Hook, every week in fact, and insanely so over the week up to St Patrick’s Day.
If you check their […]

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Kansas City’s most popular Celtic rock band, The Elders, are just back in KC not 5 minutes after a tour of Ireland with Canadian Celtic […]

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Rachel Casey of the IMCC tells me that their annual Irish Gala over the weekend was a big success.
IMCC’s annual Irish Gala was a sell-out […]

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The St Patrick’s Day parade organisers in Lawrence, Kansas raised $2,400 for this year’s chosen charities, from their Pub Quiz.
There were over 100 people who […]

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It can cause dizziness, so take it easy on the spinning.
Problems of numbers of each gender not matching are easily addressed by cross-dressing.
It’s like square […]

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I don’t lie. It’s how I was brought up.
More importantly, I don’t need phone calls from Kansas City calling me a liar.
I wasn’t lying when […]

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OK, it’s late and it’s stuttering but the 2008 Kansas City Paddy’s Day Guide is here.
It’s late due to more important offline matters, but it […]

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Triflemore, based in Columbia, Missouri and responsible for the classic Celtic sounds that was the CD Come By The Hills have just posted a new […]

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There’s a fantastic article by Louis P. Masur on Digital Journalist today. It’s about an Irish-American called Kelly and an African-American from Kansas City.
Born Theodore […]

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What do Cher, Tom Jones, Elvis Costello’s Ex, Joe Dolan, and The Larks have in common?
They all are presented today in video on The Chancer. […]

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Sunday March 16, 2008, the day before St Patrick’s Day, is a busy one for Mr Eddie Delahunt.
Sandwiched between performances at the after-parade party in […]

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400 people braved the weather yesterday for the annual Shamrock Shuffle.
One of the last events leading up to the Lawrence St. Patrick’s Day Parade on […]

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Dempsey’s Irish Pub is the new Irish-themed bar in Lawrence, Kansas, being opened by Steve Gaudreau the owner of Quinton’s, another downtown Lawrence drinking-and-dining establishment.
Located […]

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The BC Celtic Music Club is playing for the Sisters in the Dooley Center (their assisted living center) at Mount St Scholastica on Sunday, March […]

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O’Malley’s 1842 Irish Pub of Weston, Missouri is a fantastic pub I’ve gone on about a fair bit here on Irish KC. It’s also the […]

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On St Patrick’s Day, Monday, March 17th, 2008 at 11am, the 35th annual Kansas City St. Patrick’s Day parade takes place in downtown KC, Missouri.
This […]

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The Lawrence St. Patrick’s Day Luck-of-the-Irish Poker Run, a motorbike thing, has been rescheduled from today, March 8th to next Saturday, March 15, 2008.
The official […]

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2 years ago today Irish KC launched with this little post. (The seemingly older posts were added later)
It was an ugly start, foregoing much of […]

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Just a short note to let you know I’ve reinstated my interview by phone with Ireland’s Damien Dempsey.
I did the interview for an article I […]

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