Here’s a great article in today’s Belfast Telegraph that salutes young American men who died in World War II in Ireland including some from Kansas.
Although […]

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More than your neighbour, are you:
• Feeling a bit more connected to the earth?
• Living life as if it will go on long after death?
• […]

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One of my favourite things about the state next door, Kansas, is its fences - particularly the barbed wire variety. It comes from cycling.
On Saturday, […]

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Another day for Irish politics. Another deadline.
Let’s have a quick look through the progress over the last eight years from one person’s viewpoint - An […]

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We’re talking a traveling exhibit of the Irish-built ship here, not the permanent musuem housed in the half-scale replica ship in Branson, Missouri. Though like […]

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DeMolay was started in Kansas City in 1919. Kind of a young masons it creeps me out because things that encourage virtues make me feel […]

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During March, up until March 17, in Branson, Missouri, my favourite museum built in the shape of a half-scale liner in collision with an iceberg, […]

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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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John Warner, professor emeritus at West Virginia Wesleyan College, in yesterday’s Charlston Gazette is guessing that you:
know not one darned thing about how the […]

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Ireland v England. Six Nations. Dublin. Croke Park.
This is history. This is huge.
England at Croke Park.
Saturday, February 24, 11:30am KC Time
Three options.
1. The Pub
2. […]

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  • Irish blog Comment of the month
  • Frank McCourt at the Oxonian Society
  • Technology & Unionism
  • The most Irish place outside Ireland
  • Irish Breweries - […]

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Speaking of Croke Park, Kevin Connolly of the BBC has a piece today reflecting on the role of Gaelic Games’ headquarters in “Bloody Sunday”. That’s […]

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Sometimes in the Midwest the portrayal of Irishness seems more German than Irish. And sometimes movies in America depicting Irish themes seem more like propaganda […]

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I’ve been meaning to post on the American release of The Wind That Shakes The Barley since it was first announced back in August. It’s […]

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Once upon a time Irish people, whoever they were - probably those who slaughtered the Tuatha Dé Danann - drank alcohol in public places such […]

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1988
Loyalist Michael Stone attacks the Milltown Cemetary during the funerals of the three IRA members killed by the SAS in Gibraltar.
Using bullets and grenades Stone […]

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As a service to Kansas City, so KC can be aware of where the Irish music in town came from, I’d like to point people […]

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The recent Chris Moyles Bob Geldof thing reminded me of when I worked in England and my English boss - who was about to go […]

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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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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 […]

Read: Ireland as England as seen on TV »