Funky Links #1
Posted by: Eolaí on January 31st, 2007
Sometimes, believe it or not, I don’t want to talk. Luckily on the web you don’t have to - you can just link.
Some people […]
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Archive for “England”
FAIQ #20: What’s it like driving on the left-hand side?
Posted by: Eolaí on January 17th, 2007
Q. What is it like to drive on the left-hand side of the road?
A. I hate cars. Everything about them. I couldn’t even tell you […]
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Seamus Heaney wins ‘T.S. Elliot Prize for Poetry’
Posted by: Eolaí on January 16th, 2007
Those of you who remember the great review the Wichita Eagle gave Seamus Heaney’s District and Circle a couple of months ago, might be particularly […]
Nine Mule Burn
Posted by: Eolaí on November 28th, 2006
Not long before I arrived in Kansas City, seven years, eight months and four days ago, I went for walk in northern England. An eighty […]
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The Tartan Tiger: Like Ireland and Like Kansas
Posted by: Eolaí on November 14th, 2006
Not only Ireland with its Stock Exchange, Euro use, and direct trade with the rest of the world, but the US State of Kansas is […]
Passenger Lists of 100 Million Made Available
Posted by: Eolaí on November 9th, 2006
British genealogy site, Ancestry.co.uk, have made available passenger lists of over 100 million names from more than 100 American ports, in what is claimed to […]
See How Easy It Is To Like The British
Posted by: Eolaí on November 4th, 2006
Twenty-four hours later and I’m still loving this headline.
Johnson County Sun Makes British Press
Posted by: Eolaí on November 2nd, 2006
Steve Rose’s column where he explains why his Johnson County Sun is endorsing mostly Democratic candidates despite being a Republican paper, is being recommended to […]
Lemmy Speaks
Posted by: Eolaí on October 25th, 2006
Once upon a time I was listening to Fiona Looney talk to Gerry Ryan on his RTE 2FM radio show, when she started equating certain […]
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Strike The Gay Harp
Posted by: Eolaí on October 23rd, 2006
In Ireland where same-sex unions are not legal despite both the Taoiseach and Tánaiste being in favour, the British embassy in Dublin is hosting civil […]
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Best Novel of the Last 25 Years
Posted by: Eolaí on October 8th, 2006
Although many of the invited participants refused to have anything to do with the Observer’s vote for the best novel of the last twenty-five years, […]
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Top Funeral Songs or Dirge for Today
Posted by: Eolaí on October 2nd, 2006
As ever, we like a list here at Irish KC, however lacking in authority it may be. We especially like looking at them to see […]
Cornish Nasty
Posted by: Eolaí on September 9th, 2006
I don’t usually talk about Ireland’s ‘little people’, and I’m not starting now. Instead I want to talk about England’s little people, and this adorable […]
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Top 100 #1 Albums in UK Charts
Posted by: Eolaí on August 29th, 2006
As part of the 50th Anniversary celebrations of the UK charts (which are the main music charts Irish people listen/are subjected to), the UK Chart […]
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Irish Press Banned as Irish Independence Revoked
Posted by: Eolaí on August 6th, 2006
The recent Chris Moyles Bob Geldof thing reminded me of when I worked in England and my English boss - who was about to go […]
Ireland as England as seen on TV
Posted by: Eolaí on July 26th, 2006
You know, when I talk about things being filmed in Ireland, and you’re sitting in Missouri or Nebraska or somewhere in the US thinking it […]
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Guns, the English, and Americans
Posted by: Eolaí on July 24th, 2006
The first time I saw a gun in America was on the west coast. A marine in California proudly pulled this plastic case from under […]
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Little Judy’s trying to watch “Top of the Pops”
Posted by: Eolaí on June 21st, 2006
In 1978 deep down in her pocket Judy found 50p (p? what’s p?).
10 years earlier Irish money was pre-decimal so 10 bob is what […]
Irish Home Rule causes 50 years of British misery
Posted by: Eolaí on June 6th, 2006
In a bizarre piece in the Post-Chronicle, Thomas E. Brewton likens the issue that immigration of Mexican illegals has become for the US today, with […]
Bloomsday Under Threat
Posted by: Eolaí on May 30th, 2006
Bloomsday, June 16, 1904 - the date of the setting of Ulysses, and celebrated for about seventy years - might be getting a new holiday […]
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