A reminder of 2 things about New Year from an Irish perspective.
1. How to say Happy New Year in Irish (Gaelic/Gaeilge)
2. How the Irish celebrate […]

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Christmas isn’t over dude.

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Here’s a couple of photos I took this evening, Christmas Eve in Dublin.
The first is of James Joyce looking at the spot in Dublin where […]

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As I’m off into town (that would be Dublin, Ireland) for my traditional annual shopping blitz and good cheer, here’s pretty much most of the […]

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The friends of Mason Brown have put together a 2010 calendar for the tutitional benefit of Mason.
Full of the flavours of Ireland, music, food, and […]

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Liam Clancy passed away earlier today after a long illness. Perhaps the last of a golden age of Ireland’s folk singers, we’ve spoken of Liam […]

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This side of Christmas I’m going to feature a bunch of, em, stuff, Irish like, here in the main column of [Irish KC] while I […]

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But where does the trap door lead?
AFTERWRATH: 24 hours later and the fallout from the game will be on Ireland’s main current affairs programme tonight […]

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The latest reason for my quiet on IrishKC is that I’m currently running an end of year sale of my paintings. Again the paintings launch […]

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One of my favourite things to ever come out of Kansas City’s Irish world is the relatively recently launched Lunch Tunes
Published by Ireland’s Turlach Boylan […]

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From Shane Hegarty’s book launching tomorrow, here’s 7 things about the Irish (and other foreigners).
And if the video doesn’t convert you, there was a large […]

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It’s October 31st, Halloween, so tonight is Oíche Shamhna. Yes, we have Hallowe’en in Ireland; we’ve had it since before Columbus landed in the […]

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On Saturday November 14, 2009 Kansas City gets treated to an all-day Irish Music Masters Workshop at the Irish Museum and Cultural Center (IMCC) in […]

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In 1978 in the hills outside the northern County Kilkenny town of Castlecomer in Ireland, a group of men started a tradition that has not […]

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I’ve posted a collage of 40 photos over on my personal blog. They’re all taken here in Ireland, specifically in Dublin West.
They are not […]

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Flannigan’s Right Hook are performing at the Grand Opening of metro Kansas City’s newest Irish pub, Waxy O’Shea’s in Shawnee Kansas on Thursday, October 1, […]

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So today is the day. The 250th anniversary of the Guinness Brewery at St James’s Gate in Dublin, after a brief sojourn in County Kildare. […]

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For just 2 days I’m offering 16 of my older Irish abstract paintings reduced by $100 each.
I’m doing this because I’m re-organising things […]

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Whilst drawing attention to various performances of live Irish music around the Kansas City area, I shouldn’t forget that the venue that puts on most […]

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Today is the 17th of September 2009, half-way to St Patrick’s Day, what some people call St Practice Day - a horrible moniker - and […]

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