Tonight is the 3rd Thursday in February so it’s the night for Third Thursday on 33rd at Browne’s Irish Market & Deli in Kansas City.
This […]

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Once upon a time I created the website for the now defunct Brookside Irish Festival. The festival was attempting to book Black 47 but the […]

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Mike O’Laughlin made the Irish supersite for emigration and its disapora, GlobalIrish.ie, yesterday for Missouri Irish: The Original History of the Irish in Missouri being […]

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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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We’ve talked a fair bit about the Irish Wilderness in Miisouri, and the Kansas City bishop who was earlier the Father Hogan from Ireland who […]

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Meant to share this with you a couple of weeks back. Mystery of the Irish Wilderness by Leland and Crystal Payton (Lens & Pen Press) […]

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Here’s some clips from the 1967 film adaptation of James Joyce’s Ulysses with Milo O’Shea as Leopold Bloom including the scene which was immortalized in […]

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A quick reminder that today, Satuday June 13, 2009, sees the annual Irish party that is the Bloomsday celebration at the Plaza Library, 4801 Main […]

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When you’re at the midtown Kansas City Irish festival that is Browne’s Irish Street Fair tomorrow, Saturday 6th June, 2009, have a look out for […]

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I meant to tell you a couple of weeks ago, that the 2009 Dublin: One City, One Book is Dracula by Dublin author Bram Stoker.
Dracula […]

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This review of Irish author Frank Delaney’s new novel, “Shannon”, is contributed by Pete Maher of the Midwest Irish Focus
What in the world could a […]

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There will be a book signing and talk by the Irish author and former BBC broadcaster Frank Delaney in Kansas City on Thursday, March 19, […]

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The list of books for October 2008 through to May 2009 has been added to the Irish Book Club page.
The list includes the Best-Selling Roddy […]

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A couple of days ago the Kansas City Star gave a very nice review to fellow Irish blogger Declan Burke.
As entertaining as Declan’s blog Crime […]

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Among the Fall 2008 program of events currently being announced by the Kansas City Irish Museum & Cultural Center (IMCC) is an Irish book club.
Commencing […]

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The KC Community News has an article about an historical novel written by a Leawood man, John H. Brown.
The novel, A Wind of Many Colors, […]

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Kansas favourite son of Texas, Ike - President, not Turner - features again as the uncle of Billy Boyle, Irish cop in Boston, in the […]

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There’s a review by Brad Tyler of Joe Bageant’s book on America’s class war, Deerhunting With Jesus, in the Houston Chronicle
The general gist is that […]

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A KC son of Irish immigrants is featured in the World Socialist Web Site on the occasion of the publication of a major biography - […]

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I haven’t really but this test says I’ve decided I have.
Because all my books are now in boxes somewhere between KC and Ireland right now, […]

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