Postcards. A list.
It’s an exercise in documentation and a snapshot of where I might be right now, or more to the point where people I […]

Read: Postcards on the Fridge »

Note: I’ve added a painting I did of Ireland’s cycling stage race, The Rás (An Rás Tailteann) to that post about the American cyclist who […]

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The parents have been galivanting around Ireland again.
Sligo and Donegal.
Of course it’s easy for them as they actually live there, and thanks to the […]

Read: Donegal & Sligo Photos »

Some time over a year ago I created a page on MySpace for Irish KC.
I prettied it up a bit, and uploaded some photos […]

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I almost fell asleep on the bicycle.
I almost got a full set of four mosquito bites on each limb while I slept.
I almost missed the […]

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Floyd Landis is on Talk Of The Nation on NPR right now, pleading his innocence regarding winning the 2006 Tour De France and then being […]

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Big Screen
-Hey!
-Hey
-Can I give you a beer?
-I suppose you can
-Do you want to see my big screen?
-I’m all right thanks, I’m not really a screen […]

Read: Irish Conversation in the American Midwest #32 »

By popular demand, here is a photo of The Dog.
Equally adept with either paw, The Dog is seen here warming up with a soccer ball […]

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Back when the Lucan Road west of Chapelizod wasn’t a one-way off ramp from the N4, it was the main feature of my typical cycling […]

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I do love GAA Championship Sundays like yesterday.
When I left Ireland and moved to Kansas City, Waterford hadn’t been Munster Hurling champions since 1963, and […]

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We haven’t done a Sunday Short for a while.
Here then is my favourite from the Dublin Stories series of films by NOVARAfilms. It’s episode 4 […]

Read: Dublin Stories: Episode 4 - Peter »

In an orgy of self-indulgence, partly in answer to repeated meme taggings over the last year, and partly as an exercise in disclosure, I give […]

Read: 101 Things About the Irish KC Author »

Because I refuse to work, I spend all the waking and sleeping hours of the day reading and drinking and writing poetry.
And that causes some […]

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Yesterday was my ninth 4th of July since moving to the US. And it was my first not to have a drink. I was just […]

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I took the test.
It being that time of year, it seemed appropriate.
And even more so with my impending departure after over 8 years […]

Read: You Have Not Been Ruined By American Culture »

Cool Yoke
-Your flight okay?
-Grand
-And your stay with your Irish friends in that other American city?
-Great. They’re very well off
-How so?
-They had one of these really […]

Read: Irish Conversation in the American Midwest #31 »

In the few days in Kansas City, from the saddle of a bicycle, I have seen:
1. A turtle
2. A woodpecker
3. A possum scurrying along
4. A […]

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Somebody at a festival once asked me what makes my paintings Irish. It’s not an infrequent question.
-I do, is my frequent answer.
Of course this is […]

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Am watching the Munster Football Final live from Killarney in Kerry via Setanta.
This is Gaelic Football lest you be wondering. The Kingdom are playing […]

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A selection of links from me over on Twitter.
None of these ended up with their own blogpost here on IrishKC. Yet.
There’s more over there […]

Read: June Twitterings »