Both Sides of the Law: The Irish in Kansas City
Posted by: Eolaí on March 10th, 2013
12 of the first 16 Kansas City police officers killed on duty were Irish or Irish-born.
In 1867 or so Dennis Malloy from County Clare […]
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Missouri Irish Brigade Encampment at the IMCC
Posted by: Eolaí on March 6th, 2010
On Saturday March 6, 2010 there is a Missouri Irish Brigade Encampment at the Irish Museum and Cultural Center (IMCC) in Kansas City’s Union Station […]
Missouri Irish - Audio Version
Posted by: Eolaí on February 4th, 2010
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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7 Things About The Irish (& Other Foreigners)
Posted by: Eolaí on November 5th, 2009
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 […]
The Kansas City Family who didn’t Die on the Titanic
Posted by: Eolaí on September 19th, 2009
The Catholic Key has one of those interesting historical stories it frequently reports. This one is of the legend of a Kansas City family who […]
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Missouri Irish Wilderness Book Back Story
Posted by: Eolaí on July 30th, 2009
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 […]
Ireland’s First, Failed Rebellion
Posted by: Eolaí on July 25th, 2009
While I’m picking on the papers, and the Kansas City Star in particular, I’ll continue.
AP writer Shawn Pogatchnik in his article marking U2’s current series […]
The Titanic Comes To Kansas City
Posted by: Eolaí on July 23rd, 2009
This weekend, July 23-July 26, 2009, sees the most famous ship constructed in Ireland, Titanic, come to Kansas city. Kind of.
“Titanic: Treasures from the Deep” […]
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Happy 13th
Posted by: Eolaí on July 13th, 2009
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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Irish Famine Wisdom
Posted by: Eolaí on June 23rd, 2009
There’s some wisdom on the Irish Famine being shared in the comments on Tony’s Kansas City.
You should be aware that the comments on TKC are […]
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Last Titanic Survivor Bound For Kansas
Posted by: Eolaí on June 2nd, 2009
Because of the associations of the RMS Titanic with Ireland (it was built in Belfast and it stopped in Cobh, then called Queenstown, in County […]
Irish Movie “Hunger” in Kansas City
Posted by: Eolaí on May 15th, 2009
Hunger, the film about the 1981 Hunger Strikes at the H-Blocks, gets a detailed, but negative, review from Loey Lockerby in the Kansas City Star
Rated […]
The Other Pendergast
Posted by: Eolaí on May 1st, 2009
Usually when people talk about the name Pendergast in Kansas City they’re talking about Tom, or Jim. Dr. Bill Worley in the Kansas City Tribune […]
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Kevin Costner Swells Kansas City Irish
Posted by: Eolaí on April 19th, 2009
I read something incredible about the Irish in Kansas City today that I reckon is down one of 3 things;
1. It’s a typo
2. Kevin Costner […]
Irishman the Foreigner Most Welcome
Posted by: Eolaí on April 2nd, 2009
Don Ignacio O’Brien, Ernesto Murphy and Miguel McCarty would all probably agree with a recent report in Kansas City:
“The foreigner most welcome to my country […]
St Patrick’s Church in Kansas City, Missouri
Posted by: Eolaí on March 13th, 2009
We’ve been to St Patrick’s Church before here on Irish KC, but as we approach the day that celebrates Ireland’s patron saint, there’s a nice […]
Kansas Sisters Celebrate Sesquicentennial Jubilee
Posted by: Eolaí on September 26th, 2008
On September 14 gone, at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church - what you may know as Redemptorist -next door to Cristo Rey High School, […]
Nothing American About Beer Making in St. Louis
Posted by: Eolaí on July 18th, 2008
More of a Germans in Missouri story than an Irish in Missouri one, but it’s a story about drink so the Irish do make an […]
Orange Fest
Posted by: Eolaí on July 12th, 2008
They’re calling it a Fest now.
It’s the biggest day of the year for the tradition in Ireland that is represented by just as much space […]
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The Irish in Missouri
Posted by: Eolaí on July 1st, 2008
There’s a Kansas City Irish website that I’ve repeatedly failed to give the full attention it deserves.
It hasn’t been intentionally so, it’s just that […]
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