Twice a year I tell you this, America. Mother’s Day in Ireland is celebrated on a different day than it is in America.
Here in […]

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This time every year in America, people asked me, What did the Easter Bunny bring you when you were a kid in Ireland?
And much less […]

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Forgot to get a Valentine card? Deliberately?
Don’t want to give money to card companies? Think the celebration of Valentine’s day is moronic? And yet […]

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Who would have thought that Joe Dolan would be knocked off the news headlines by a man in Rawalpindi?
And this raises the stakes in the […]

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From Dublin airport today I managed to squeeze in a Christmas Eve stroll around town on my way to the family home.
Dublin was vibrant as […]

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Home.
Again.
As I suspected, Christmas Eve in Dublin Airport post-Tiger is a very different place than it was in the ’80s. Then you had the […]

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A place is needed so people can easily reference stories of my drunken attempt to return to Ireland one Christmas, and some nostalgic and cultural […]

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This year, not having a home, I won’t be getting a Christmas Tree.
In the last couple of years, despite not having a car in […]

Read: The Tree of Life: A Christmas Photo Story »

Well my my.
All the cool kids are doing this.
Champagne is Erin’s “Ultimate Holiday Drink”. And it’s an Alabama Slammer for Spyder
What do you think […]

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All is sedate in the middle of England during this build-up to Christmas.
It’s fair to say I’m not missing the schmaltz of the build-up […]

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Why would you want to burn a goat? I do. I want to burn the Gävle Goat.
Why?
The burning of a great log during the […]

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On Tuesday, December 4, 2007, at 7:30pm Connie Dover joins the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra for holiday carols, arranged especially for this very talented Celtic […]

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Hey, a year ago today, on the eve of Thanksgiving, I wrote about America and Turkeys.
It was written from an Irish perspective of course, so […]

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So it’s Halloween today.
This means it’s a day for America to throw around more badly spelled examples of the Irish language as it acknowledges Ireland’s […]

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Oh, America, I forgot to tell you - it’s a holiday today in Ireland. The Dublin Marathon finished a while ago with its fastest winning […]

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Less than an hour after Columbus Day and I find myself in Ireland all nostalgic for the day I had this time last year.
Or maybe […]

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7 or 8 years ago I was walking the streets of Kansas City’s Midtown on a Halloween evening when I ended up at the front […]

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You know the way I’m supposedly moving back to Ireland?
Well, I’m packing.
Why thank you.
And I’m coping with uninformative shipping and trucking companies. Moments ago […]

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Happy 12th of July then.
It’s not my world, but if you’re of Scots-Irish stock, like much of rural Missouri, and much of rural everywhere […]

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Yesterday was my ninth 4th of July since moving to the US. And it was my first not to have a drink. I was just […]

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