The earlier you get up the longer the shadow from the mountain. By the time the sun is high enough to reach the cottage the […]

Read: The Cottage - Day 17 »

Ulster 3-15 (24) Connacht 4-9 (21)
A 3-point victory for the Ulster team then, but the first Celtic Ranch Cup wasn’t about the final score.
In only […]

Read: Celtic Ranch Cup a Great 1st Gaelic Football Match for KC »

A beautiful, perfect day, if cold, the condensation slowly going from the windows. The sea a deep blue, everything in sunshine.
Except the cottage of […]

Read: The Cottage - Day 16 »

A reminder. Today, Sunday, 28 Sep, 2008 is huge when it comes to things Irish in Kansas City.
It’s a first and it won’t cost you […]

Read: GAA: Irish Sport in Kansas City »

It’s grey, it’s cloudy, it’s misty, but it all feels different now.
I walk outside with the dog beside me and I look at the headlands, […]

Read: The Cottage - Day 15 »

Today, Sunday 28th September, 2008, at the Irish Museum and Cultural Center at Union Station (IMCC) you get the opportunity to learn the “Our Father” […]

Read: Ná Lig Sinn i gCathú »

A perfect blue square through the skylight as the steps of a dog on wood wake me.
Well, not a perfect blue square; it’s a […]

Read: The Cottage - Day 14 »

Owen Morris in Fat City of Kansas City’s Pitch Weekly says something interesting about Irish and German beer in reference to this weekend’s big German […]

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On September 14 gone, at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church - what you may know as Redemptorist -next door to Cristo Rey High School, […]

Read: Kansas Sisters Celebrate Sesquicentennial Jubilee »

Clouds. Rain. Soft, but rain. Like a heavy dark ceiling with a light fringe that drags on the ground and hides the view.
Over the hill […]

Read: The Cottage - Day 13 »

White Sands
Part 65 of the Cycle-Across-America series. (Read from the start in Boston or see the full index)

These excerpts are from the transcipts of a […]

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For those of you who didn’t make it to last weeeknd’s Missouri River Irish Fest, over in eastern Missouri, you can get a flaour of […]

Read: Missouri River Irish Fest 2008 Photos »

If you’re over Wichita way on Saturday, you may well be interested in an Irish Pops Concert.
The Wichita Symphony Orchestra with Cherish the Ladies, at […]

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Rain. Beating on the roof. Cold sloppy drops, without pattern. The ones you want to come in to a hot whiskey to. With somebody. But […]

Read: The Cottage - Day 12 »

This is post number 3,000 here on Irish KC.
IrishKC is over 2 and half years old and in that time has had close to 600,000 […]

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It’s a first for Kansas City, so far as anyone can remember. A full-on Gaelic Football game in KC.
Sponsored by the Celtic Ranch, in an […]

Read: The Celtic Ranch Cup: Gaelic Football in Kansas City »

Adam Clayton works for QuikTrip in Kansas City.
Kind of.
Pat Ross is the bassist in Kansas City’s U2 tribute band, Rattle & Hum KC. A music […]

Read: KC U2 Tribute Band Help QuikTrip Celebrate 50 Years »

Being in a part of Ireland far away from the land of broadband, I don’t get to listen to much music anymore. But sometimes the […]

Read: Perfect from Triflemore »

Are you keeping an eye on MidwestIrishFocus.com?
I am.
Still in development, obviously, but even so you get to see the latest cover of the paper, and […]

Read: Another Irish Website for the Midwest »

Wake up to a blue sky everywhere.
Everywhere else that is. Over my cottage is a large dark grey slab, and it is about to […]

Read: The Cottage - Day 11 »