A wine with an Irish name has been named by Kansas City’s Present magazine as the wine that “may be the best wine dollar for […]

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Finbar Lebowitz is this week’s Sunday Short - the irregular post I do featuring an Irish short film.
Made in 2000 and set in Dublin, it’s […]

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No, I haven’t left the country. I’ve been doing a lot of sleeping.
Oh, and you know the way life in America is different than life […]

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Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, the Irish musician I spoke about 3 months ago, stopped by IrishKC on MySpace a few days ago and left a very […]

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You know what I’ve been listening to a lot over the last few days?
If you do then I clearly need to fix my crawl space, […]

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A few days ago my brother in Ireland sent me an article from the Irish Times.
It was by Kate Holmquist about a new book making […]

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To show you I don’t lie.
A photo. Of a church sign.
Since writing about it last November, I’ve nothing new to say about this notion of […]

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Elevator, Sunday is another large painting I’m offering for sale before leaving Kansas City.
It’s 40 by 30 inches - the same size as the recently […]

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Shipment
-Hello?
-Mr. gan Fhéile?
-Yes
-You filled in a request online for a quote on shipping personal effects from Kansas City to Liverpool?
-Yes, but only because when I […]

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Nun More Deadly, by the WYD-Eye Film Unit, is your Sunday Short, this week’s featured Irish short film.
This is a Raymond Chandler style film noir […]

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Some assorted sounds I’m listening to.
These links won’t stay up forever. It makes sense when you like music to then buy it from the artist […]

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Mosquite Project Recap:
No bug deterrent applied, and no after-bite topical relief applied.
Things were going swimmingly there for a few weeks. Oh I was getting […]

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Pearse’s Cottage. In Rosmuc, County Galway. Where Patrick Pearse spent his summers. Before that trip to the GPO.
This is a big painting. And I’m leaving […]

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Since people in the US ask me all the time, and despite the presence of the ould internets, and the satellite televisions and the shortwave […]

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There’s a lot of mail comes here to Irish KC, and the way I have things set up I am not the most efficient at […]

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Duffel Coat. A short film by Alex Gill.
It’s Sunday so here’s your Sunday Short, the irregular posting I do of Irish short films.
Duffel Coat stars […]

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Just to note that things are not as quiet as they might appear in blogland.
I’ve had a misbehaving computer for a week now, crawling at […]

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It’s the weekend so here’s a random Irish memory.
Belle of Belfast City and before it Can’t Help Falling in Love were the 2 singles I […]

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Speaking of Horslips and Dearg Doom, the track does of course come from the seminal Celtic Rock concept album The Táin.
The story of The Táin […]

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In this city that boasts more fountains than Rome (or everywhere else but), every morning shortly after sunrise I watch a couple of men advance […]

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