The KC AOH, Padraig Pearse Division, is having its Annual Hibernian Homecoming Party on Saturday, August 2nd, 2008 from 3-7pm at William Henry Harrison […]

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Just 1 week after Irish Fest in October, Celtic folk group Searson are playing at O’Malley’s Irish pub in Weston, Missouri.
On Thursday October 23, 2008 […]

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People have been emailing me about when I left an Irish fest that I worked for in Kansas City several years ago, and when I […]

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There’s a nice feature on Boulevard Beers in the Wednesday Sun as they release new beers for the 1st time in almost 10 years.
Boulevard is […]

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At downtown KC’s newest Irish pub from Friday August 8 - Thursday August 14, 2008, Irish singer songwriter Bono performs The Unplugged History of Rock.
Yes, […]

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Top U2 tribute band Rattle & Hum has 2 shows booked in Kansas city this August.
On Friday, August 1, 2008 Rattle & Hum make their […]

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Usual story, Kansas City. I have news and things to report, much of them in draft but I’m engaged elsewhere - specifically hunting for a […]

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While eating an egg last week here in Ireland it occurred to me that it had never happened to me in America.
About 10 minutes earlier […]

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There’s a new Ireland blog about. That would be a new blog about Ireland rather than a blog about new Ireland.
By John O’Brien Jnr, a […]

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The video on this post, which is important to me, has been re-enabled.
This is the song I said goodbye to Kansas City with, and the […]

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There are a lot of people in Ireland today, and I would be one of them, very puzzled by the decision of a Grand Jury […]

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Autumn 2008.
A Kansas City festival over 7 weekends.
From Labor Day weekend on to Columbus Day weekend.
As well as playing all over the Midwest […]

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Perhaps my favourite tune, so far, from Words From Notes, the forthcoming album by Triflemore, is the reworking of Postcards.
Postcards is:
the first song we worked […]

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Irish and Celtic names once again figure prominently in the most popular babynames in Kansas.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment has released its statistics […]

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Some more information on the Irish Night at the T-Bones on August 1, 2008 from the Irish Museum & Cultural Center (IMCC).
Calling it St. Patrick’s […]

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While I continue my search for a home and/or a studio where I can resume my painting, you can have a look at the state […]

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Colm does it regularly.
Eddie does it once in a while.
Alison does it for the first time.
The AOH always do it.
John Morris does it again […]

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A performance by The Elders in Ben Meade’s film American Music: Off The Record gets a nice highlighted noting on FilmGuru.Net:
Director [Meade] cuts his documentary […]

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Mike O’Roark is more famous than I’d ever have the time to go on about.
So instead I’ll tell you about a benefit do for […]

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It’s been a long time since The Killdares played Kansas City, and in the coming months the nearest to KC they’ll play is the Iowa […]

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