Pat O’Neill, Grand Marshal of the 2016 Kansas City St Patrick’s Day parade, is on Nichols at Night talking about the history of the […]

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Tim Finn is reporting that the organizers of the KC Irish Fest have announced the line-up for the 2016 Irish festival in Kansas City in […]

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The 2016 Mardi Gras & Irish Festival in Excelsior Springs, Missouri, takes place this Saturday from noon until 5pm.
Parade:
Downtown. Starts at 2pm. Line up is […]

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At 11am on Saturday 12 March, the 2016 Snake Saturday parade in downtown North Kansas City, held on the Saturday before St Patrick’s Day since […]

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Hey, have you seen the brand new official website of Pat O’Mahony?
In Kansas City you may have seen the TV and Radio Presenter/Producer/Director on a […]

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People are asking me when I started the official blog of the Kansas City Irish Festival. The question has long been answered over in the […]

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Long-time resident of the Kansas City metro area, Dublin’s Rory O’Connor gets his name in the paper in Ireland. In the Irish Times no less. […]

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A quick guide to 20 things you may not know about the 2013 KC Irish Festival.

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The 2013 Kansas City Irish fest is at Crown Center on Labor Day weekend.

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Keli O’Neill Wenzel, Executive Director of the Kansas City Irish Fest, and President and Managing Partner of O’Neill Marketing and Event Management, is interviewed in […]

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In the evening, a woman who looked to be 90 or older walked up to the stage and told Delahunt to play “Danny Boy.” As […]

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I’m pretty sure it’s mistaken, but the Kansas City Star is reporting that “the following streets will be closed from 9 a.m. Thursday to 10 […]

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Calling it ‘perhaps the area’s best organized and most tirelessly promoted festival’ the Kansas City Star yesterday gave a shout out to KC’s Irish festival […]

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The list of the largest Irish festivals in America has been updated.
An explanation and discussion of the attendance figures, their sources and calculation, is […]

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You stop paying attention for a few weeks and your memory goes to pot.
The Global Sounds Music Festival was on Saturday in Colombia, Missouri and […]

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Girsa, the 8-member all-female traditional Irish group from Pearl River in New York, have the Irish festival in Kansas City September 2011 listed on their […]

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I usually post reactions to Kansas City’s Labor Day Weekend Irish Fest in the form of excerpts and links, but for the 2010 festival the […]

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One of the Irish highlight’s of the year in Kansas City is Brown’s Irish Street Faire, and 2010 was no exception despite the afternoon storms. […]

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Ireland’s folk-popsters, The Guggenheim Grotto are reporting on MySpace, and on FaceBook, and on Twitter that they are playing in Kansas City on Friday, September […]

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The Weston Irish Fest 2009 starts tonight, Friday, October 09 and continues through Saturday October 10 to Sunday October 11.
The 10th Annual Irish Festival at […]

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