The Record Bar in Westport is hosting a tribute to U2 from the Paul Green School of Rock this coming weekend.
On Friday, May 1, […]

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Big bagpipe sound. Fiddles playing tunes from Celtic lands. Rock guitars. Bass. Drums. Swishing kilts of tartan. Swish. And the didgeridoo.
Well, lets be honest have […]

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Readers in Nebraska, specifically those in or close to Omaha, will be interested in the gigs of the Wild Clover Band this coming weekend as […]

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Rosmuc Arís
12ins x 12ins x 1.5ins
Canvas
165 EUR, Shipping: 11 EUR
SOLD
There are a lot of paintings of Connemara still in me, and quite a few of […]

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Sloping Fields
18ins x 24ins
Canvas
499 USD (340 EUR)
Shipping 22 USD (16 EUR )
SOLD
Those of you who like my abstract paintings will know that I like […]

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Kinsale IV
12ins x 48ins
Canvas
790 USD (590 EUR)
SOLD
This is a large painting, or at least a long one, being 4 foot long. I’ve painted Kinsale 3 […]

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Rook, Flight
8ins x 8ins x 1.5ins
Canvas
100 USD (75 EUR) + Shipping 15 USD (11 EUR)
SOLD
I like rooks. And when I like things I have […]

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I read a couple of articles over the last few days, of before and after the Elders gig in the Mar Theatre in Wilmington, Illinois, […]

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Poulnabrone
8ins x 10ins
Canvas
230 USD (170 EUR)
Shipping 15 USD (10 EUR)
SOLD
I’ve painted the portal tomb at Poulnabrone in the Burren of County Clare a couple […]

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The Great Sugar Loaf
12ins x 16ins
Canvas
SOLD
215 EUR / 290USD
Wicklow is awash with Sugar Loaves. But it’s usually the Great Sugar Loaf that we’re talking about […]

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Rosmuc: Ag An Garáiste
8ins x 24ins
Canvas
200 USD (150 EUR) + Shipping 15 USD (11 EUR) SOLD
The 2nd time I stayed in Galway’s Connemara Gaeltacht […]

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Normal Kansas City Irish Blogging service is about to be resumed - once this art show I’m in is finished (It ends Sunday).
Also when the […]

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Governor Stumpy’s Celtic Block Party is on Sunday, May 3rd 2009.
This short post is just to emphasize the correction to my earlier post.
(Originally […]

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As a recipient of the Fulbright Scholar Award, Leslie Duram, a Wichita, Kansas native, who attended Wichita State University and Kansas State University, is moving […]

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Ever been to the Rogues Gallery? I haven’t.
It’s been going on for a few years now, and again at this year’s Annual Spring Hooley […]

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I read something incredible about the Irish in Kansas City today that I reckon is down one of 3 things;
1. It’s a typo
2. Kevin Costner […]

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A new website has been launched for Flannigan’s Right Hook, the Kansas City based band Celtic Rock band that mixes Irish music into bluegrass and […]

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The annual Bloomsday celebration in Kansas City, organized by Bloomsday Books will be celebrated in 2009 just as in the previous, something like 13 or […]

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If you are wondering why I might not be posting too much at the moment, I can tell you it’s because I have an art […]

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At the moment I can’t turn the television on in Ireland without seeing Overland Park, Kansas boy made good, Paul Rudd. It’s not impossible or […]

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