It’s a holiday weekend here in Ireland, and I have things to do.
So I’ll leave you with where my thoughts are this weekend. As they […]

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Less often than being asked how certain Irish related words are pronounced, I am asked how to spell certain words.
And one of the words I […]

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Today is a special day, so I won’t be posting anything in either column.

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Darklights is the 3rd song from Words From Notes the new album by Triflemore due out later this year.
You can listen to Darklights over on […]

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You may have noticed that I appear to have fallen off the earth and be neglecting IrishKC, especially the Kansas City elements.
Well you’re not wrong.
But […]

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In the latest in a series of stories about the Class of 2010 in the Shawnee Dispatch, St. James Academy sophomore Megan McNally says she […]

Read: A Summer of Irish Dance Competitions »

There’s a nice story in the Daily Courier of Prescott, Arizona about an Irish immigrant and longtime KC resident who after dying in Arizona almost […]

Read: Gravestone from Kansas After 88 Years For Irish Immigrant »

Nebraska is a Big State
Part 47 of the Cycle-Across-America series. (Read from the start in Boston or see the full index)

Another day in Nebraska. From […]

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In the Nebraskan Corn: York to Hastings
Part 46 of the Cycle-Across-America series. (Read from the start in Boston or see the full index)

October 1st
Toast with […]

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Just a quick note that I fixed the link to the 2nd half of the most recent Cycling Across America post (#45) - previously it […]

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Just a reminder if you’re going to the big event known as the Celtic Block Party or Celtic Festival at Governor Stumpy’s today, that the […]

Read: Gaelic Football Recruitment at Governor Stumpy’s »

A blog I’ve been following for some time is that of Chuck Denton of Doherty and Sullivan’s Irish Goods in Lee’s Summit, Missouri.
Called Grá Geal […]

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Pat Paden, owner of Fatheads Irish Pub in Leavenworth, Kansas is seeking a change to the liquor license laws that currently apply to Leavenworth County.
Kansas […]

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With increases in ethanol use getting a lot of attention as an alternative fuel in rural America, An Inconvenient Blog has a story on the […]

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One of the questions I am asked most often about painting is what process I use to arrive at the final painted image, whether I […]

Read: Kinsale: From a Sketch to a Painting »

Kansas City, on the night that the American Idol finale with David Cook airs in Ireland, our television screens are full of a public voting […]

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Nebraska
Part 45 of the Cycle-Across-America series. (Read from the start in Boston or see the full index)

The next section of the journal is taped and […]

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You are an attractive woman. You have long curling dark hair that spills on your shoulders as you drive. You know you look good when […]

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Speaking of KC’s Pitch Weekly, Chris Pakham in the Plog - the Pitch’s blog, geddit? - finds an Irish angle in the possibility of Kansas […]

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Although downtown Kansas City’s newest Irish pub, Raglan Road is only open a couple of months, such was the build up to that opening in […]

Read: Ferruzza Review of Raglan Road »