To celebrate Halloween this year, on Saturday October 24, 2009, the 6th annual Pooka Party is taking place at Harling’s Upstairs.
Delahunt Brothers
As ever, organised by […]

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While “this loser hasn’t lived in KC for a year* and wasn’t even at the Irish Fest”, here’s the words of 50 people who were. […]

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A few weeks ago the Irish photogrpaher Fionán O’Connell contacted me to let me know that he had a show of his photographs coming up […]

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Earlier today I launched a sale of new Irish paintings by me. There are 43 paintings in the sale, though at the time of writing […]

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More information on Waxy O’Shea’s Irish Pub of Shawnee, Kansas came out via the Shawnee Dispatch today.
We’ve pretty much covered most of it before, it’s […]

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The 2009 Ethnic Enrichment Festival takes place on the weekend of 21-23 August, 2009 as usual at Swope Park.
While Ireland is one of the 66 […]

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Last seen in Kansas City at the Irish festival at Browne’s Irish Market in Midtown back at the beginning of the summer, Enter The Haggis […]

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Long time readers and those of you who click around will know that I do a cartoon site called American Hell.
A couple of days ago […]

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Here’s a look inside the current talk of the Irish town, Kansas City’s newest Irish pub, Waxy O’Shea’s in Shawnee, Kansas.
The photo was taken pre-opening […]

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Apologies to the person who emailed me about my painting of a Slovenian church and inquired about possible other Slovenian paintings for a benefit in […]

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Snow Patrol, the biggest band out of both Northern Ireland and Scotland since the Bay City Rollers, are playing Kansas City in September.
The ever-present Gary […]

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Those of you who liked some of my Travel pieces from the past, such as A Table in a Prague Tavern, or the Phnom Penh […]

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Those of you who have been hitting category pages and found yourselves getting 404 Error - Page Not Found messages instead of the good stuff, […]

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Well actually I have. But posts have been rare due to a couple of issues at least one of which is now fixed.
Many hours were […]

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I’m told that the greatly anticipated new Irish pub for the Kansas City area, Waxy O’Shea’s, is about to open.
Waxy O’Shea’s Irish Pub opens in […]

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This weekend sees Kansas City based Irish trad band Kelly play at O’Malley’s Irish Pub up in Weston, Missouri. The gig takes place on Friday, […]

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This is a bit mean. I’m off out to the premiere of the Irish film Wide Open Spaces with the cast and crew here in […]

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Today is an official holiday in Northern Ireland. Because it’s July 13th. And it’s Monday. Which means the 12th fell on a Sunday.
Commemorating the Battle […]

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The 2009 Annual Celtic Music Benefit run by Kansas City’s Harp & Shamrock Club takes place on Friday, November 6th, 2009.
Doors open at 5pm for […]

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Apologies for online quiet these days but for the last several days I’ve been mostly offline in rural Ireland. Technically that means online but the […]

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