In advance of this weekend’s Fairfield County Irish Festival the Stamford Advocate has an interview with Ireland’s Ian Byrne, frontman of Kansas City’s The Elders.
It’s […]

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I know Raymond Crotty meant well but I’m not convinced that we should have entire treaties thrown at us in referenda.
A paragraph addressing the elements […]

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J. Murphy’s Pub & Grille is the name of the newest Irish pub in the KC area.
Opened on Friday at 22730 Midland Drive in western […]

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A few worried punters have contacted me this last week to tell me that Eddie Delahunt’s coffeeshop is all closed up.
And they’re right. And they’re […]

Read: Delahunt’s “Cafe &” Moved & Poised »

Kansas Again
Part 48 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 […]

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Just for comparison purposes.
At 10:15am this mid-June morning my mother in Ireland proclaimed that she was going to eat her breakfast outside.
Because “the heat would […]

Read: Heat That Would Kill »

While I continue a quiet existence here on Irish KC, for those of you who don’t read around the wide and varied Irish blogging world […]

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I know some of you like to know anything remotely Irish that moves in Kansas City circles, so you’ll probably be interested to know that […]

Read: 100 Yr Old Nebraskan Notices KC Irish Dancer »

Reading Hearne Christopher Jr in the Star over the weeekend I see the Downtown KC Paddy O’Quigley’s portrayed as a victim to the initial success […]

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OK listen, It’s twenty to ten here in Ireland and the sun is going down in half an hour. So I’m taking the dog out […]

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Milk
-You drank how much milk in America?
-3 gallons a week
-But milk in America is terrible, isn’t it?
-It was fine in the tea
-It’s awful stuff
-Awful?
-Yeah, it’s […]

Read: An American Conversation in Ireland #1 »

The weekly training session of the Kansas City Gaelic Athleic Club has changed both its time, and perhaps more significantly, its location.
To lessen the impact […]

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Here’s something I missed about IrishKC on Irish Abroad back in, ahem, February - St Valentine’s Day to be exact.
It’s Lessons of the Irish Pimp […]

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The Kansas City Symphony concludes its season this week with the Fantastic Symphony, Hector Berlioz’s artistic response to a fruitless search for an Irish actress […]

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With sickness dragging on and declining to visit a doctor, it was time to paint.
Of course I was now over 2 weeks behind everything […]

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A reminder that tonight, Tuesday, June 3, 2008, The Kansas City Gaelic Athletic Club is gathering at The Gaf beginning at 5pm for a […]

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Rattle and Hum, the premier U2 tribute band in the region, are playing two festivals in the Kansas City area this week.
On Thursday, June 5th, […]

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When will people learn?
Straight out of the catechism of How Not to Blog.
Again.
When you publish a blog post, no matter how good you think it […]

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The David Shaughnessy post, one of the most popular here on Irish KC, has been reinstated again in all your favourite search engines.

Read: Popular Kansas City Post Reinstated »