July 25th 2007 is the 130th anniversary of the Shamokin Uprising, when railroad workers and miners joined the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, America’s first […]

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The Extraordinary Life of Nelly Don is the name of the first special exhibit at the Irish Museum & Cultural Center.
Thanks to Terence O’Malley’s record […]

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I suppose there’s not much more mobile than music, so it makes sense when tunes associated with one land end up associated with another.
That […]

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The Black Irish, or the Northern Cherokee Nation as you may know them.
Glinda Ladd-Seabaugh of Cape Girardeau, a member of the Northern Cherokee Nation for […]

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Ballyvaughan Story is an award-winning Irish short animated documentary featuring a story from the War of Independence.
It’s a small story from 1921 in Ballyvaughan, which […]

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The Morgue File in Saturday’s Crime Scene KC blog had some great photos of that celebrated Irish-American Tom Pendergast.
They include the courtroom huddle during sentencing […]

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Mike O’Laughlin of Kansas City’s Irish Roots Cafe let me know that he has now posted the first weekly episode of Missouri Irish for your […]

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Here’s your Sunday Short film for you. How Derry Began.
It’s an 8-minute animated history of Derry City, starting in the Ice-Age when Derry was an […]

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Some final words then on The Wind That Shakes The Barley

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Kansas City got a mention last week on the Irish radio programme Talking History courtesy of Irish KC.
While a mention on a show mostly about […]

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Last night I was talking with one of the committee members for the Jennifer Ireland Foundation, and he told me that there are still some […]

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There’s something unreal about being Irish today.
And actually it’s been kind of unreal the last six weeks with phone calls home to Ireland yielding […]

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Ireland has laid claim to the son of a Kansas mother, Barack Obama.
Wait a minute, you’re thinking, we already know this. Didn’t somebody establish a […]

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My brother will be on the radio in Ireland this Sunday, May 6, 2007.
Brother the Younger will be a guest on Talking History with Patrick […]

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Courtesy of the four major search engines - yes Google is not the only orange - here’s just a sampling of some of the questions […]

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A major charity event

Cannes 2006 Palme d’Or Winner
The Wind That Shakes The Barley
THE KANSAS CITY PREMIERE
With Special Guest Máirtín de Cógáin
Tivoli Theatre
May 10, 2007
A Benefit […]

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I was thinking of a phrase you don’t hear very often in Kansas City.
Assuming you don’t have a television or watch British parliamentary debates […]

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Being Irish and walking among American flagpoles with their flags at half-mast has me thinking of the dead.
You know the way we sing happy-clappy sing-a-longy […]

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The latest podcast (#20) from Mike O’Laughlin’s Irish Roots Cafe is a special from Browne’s Irish Market & Deli.
The first podcast on location begins with […]

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On the 95th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, there’s a lot of interesting news about the ship that was built in Belfast and […]

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