HGIT #31 - moladh : compliment
Bibi and TT, the American girls with a taste for things Irish, are trying out the Irish-style of compliments.

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HGIT #30 - muince : necklace
The girls are back!
Bibi (on the left) is talking with TT (on the right) about Irish Jewelry.

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Irish major entertainment blog Blogorrah today gave the heads up on The Police performing at Dublin’s Croke Park in October this year.
Maybe I’ve forgotten, but […]

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For anybody following the cricket without actually watching it - which is kind of like the opposite of stalking, I imagine - Ireland were doing […]

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Scene: Kansas City, cold, sunny, Easter
-You’re awful quiet
-I was born quiet
-Were you born awful?
-That came later
-Our doing?
-Is that a question?
-Have you nothing to say?
-I have […]

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The first time I didn’t fast on a Good Friday I was on a train in North Wales.
I didn’t know I wasn’t fasting; after my […]

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Irish blood, English heart, Spanish Liver, Italian Sausage. Steven Patrick Morrissey is coming to Kansas City, Missouri. Oh, and St Louis.
Devious, truculent and unreliable; words […]

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I love this video.
Kansas City’s Happy-in-Bag the other day was lamenting the lack of interest in boxing here in the US these days, and how […]

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Not having phoned home for a few days I’ve missed the weather reports that admittedly I could access by typing something into a browser.
Ah […]

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Hosting Tourists
Before I moved to the US, hosting tourists in Ireland is something I did my fair share of. Actually I think I did more […]

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It’s Sunday, and it’s sunny, so naturally I am indoors reading the papers.
Reading the papers of course involves no actual paper anymore, which is a […]

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Well that didn’t take long.
The planned exhibition in New York over Easter, that we mentioned yesterday, of the sculpture of a naked crucified Jesus […]

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Smelling airports doesn’t count.
The second time I went to Italy I entered at 30mph. On a bicycle. High in the Alps above the French city […]

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Camping Without a Tent
I’ve been invited to go camping here in the middle of America next month. I know what this means.
It doesn’t mean […]

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Several years ago I was fortunate to be at a small party in a house in Dublin. Or Galway. Or Antrim. Or somewhere where I […]

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Nostalgia time. And a list.
Ten pieces of prime advice from an Irish childhood.
Universal themes I suspect.
All in all, as a child it was a […]

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From the same place that Irish Conversations and the cartoon I call the Hairdressers Guide to Information Technology, come from, yesterday I launched American Hell
It […]

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A couple of years ago there was a lot of Scottish music at the Irish festival in Crown Center, some of it by way of […]

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If you have a good memory Kansas City, you’ll recall I pointed you last year to this great Paddy’s Day cartoon by Mr Savage.
Oh, and […]

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Currently on tour with the Chieftains, the all-female Irish traditional outfit Líadan, graduates of the Irish World Music Center at the University of Limerick, are […]

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