In a FREE event that’s quite a treat for music and poetry fans in KC Connie Dover will be performing and reading from her debut […]

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On Saturday June 16, 2007, Browne’s Irish Market & Deli are having their 120th Anniversary Street Fair.
Brownes’ on St Patrick’s Day is such a […]

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On May 19 a group of venues on the Plaza will play host to the new Kansas City Literary Festival, and one of them will […]

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Colonialism is rendered in that autobiography as a tyranny of books over life; and so the nervous youth begins with borrowed styles, in the manner […]

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Yesterday Blogonomicon named Gordon Parks (1912-2006) as its pipesmoker of the week. Yes, the director of Shaft and famed photographer.
And why does Irish KC care? […]

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For anyone, from ’round these parts, who may not dig deep and follow comments on posts, let me draw your attention to Kevin Kiley’s contribution […]

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Terence O’Malley, director of acclaimed documentary Nelly Don: A Stitch in Time, tells me that it will continue to play at the Screenland Theatre in […]

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Okay, I admit it. I don’t know what the last seven words are.
James Rogers, Center for Irish Studies, attended the Midwest regional meeting of […]

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If you’re interested in what is going on the world of the Irish beyond Kansas City, here’s ten stories for ya:
  • The Irish Government is […]

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Because I’m really sad, yesterday I emailed some online news website because it was still representing the Book of Psalms in the Irish Bog as […]

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When I posted on the amazing find of the Irish book of the Bog, I did so without referring to Israel unlike most publications I […]

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The National Museum of Ireland has released photos of the Book of Psalms in the Bog, we talked about yesterday. I’m telling ya, menus and […]

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You’ve heard of the Book of Kells - or at least of Kansas City’s Cow of Kells - and you know how important old Irish […]

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Bloomsday Books, the used bookstore named after the celebration of Ireland’s most famous novel, is enjoying this heat so much that they and the rest […]

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Speaking of talks by authors, Rainy Day Books have announced the venue for the Frank Delaney talk featuring his latest book, Simple Courage. The event […]

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A Rainy Day Books Author Event at The Central Exchange, takes place tomorrow, July 12, 2006 at 11:45 am, for Terence O’Malley’s book, Nelly Don: […]

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Today’s Wichita Eagle in Kansas carries a review of a book on Racehorses, Romance, and the Irish, which caught my attention because aside from my […]

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There’s a corner of Tipperary where the accent to the unfamiliar sometimes has people believing the speakers are English or somehow fake.
It’s an […]

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Carrie Kabak is an Irish and British citizen living in Kansas City, Missouri, who has just had her novel Cover the Butter launched in paperback […]

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Speaking of Terrance O’Malley’s Nelly Don movie, I finally got my hands on the companion book over the weekend, and it’s a beautiful piece with […]

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