Switching Tack Slightly
Posted by: Eolaí on July 4th, 2007
It being the 4th of July I’ve postponed the original posts I was on the verge of throwing up, and will post one or two […]
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Archive for “Holidays”
You Have Not Been Ruined By American Culture
Posted by: Eolaí on July 3rd, 2007
I took the test.
It being that time of year, it seemed appropriate.
And even more so with my impending departure after over 8 years […]
Father and Father Away
Posted by: Eolaí on June 17th, 2007
A year ago today I wrote this about Fathers’ Day.
Such is the annual nature of holidays that not much is different a year on.
And that’s […]
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Quick Memorial Weekend Events Links
Posted by: Eolaí on May 25th, 2007
Memorial Day Weekend in Kansas City. Some Irish events for you.
• Irish Award-winning film The Wind That Shakes The Barley is held over at the […]
Christmas, It Did Happen To A Bishop
Posted by: Eolaí on May 23rd, 2007
Do you remember Christmas when we talked about the lovely story concerning the Bishop of Southwark after an Irish party in England?
At the time it […]
Days That Tell Us How To Think #142
Posted by: Eolaí on May 13th, 2007
Yes it’s that time of the year again.
In America, that is. In Ireland that time of the year is a different time of the […]
Infrequently Asked Irish KC Questions
Posted by: Eolaí on April 26th, 2007
Courtesy of the four major search engines - yes Google is not the only orange - here’s just a sampling of some of the questions […]
Appreciating the Living: The Politics of the Last Atrocity
Posted by: Eolaí on April 18th, 2007
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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Good Friday
Posted by: Eolaí on April 6th, 2007
The first time I didn’t fast on a Good Friday I was on a train in North Wales.
I didn’t know I wasn’t fasting; after my […]
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Celtic Spirituality in Missouri
Posted by: Eolaí on April 3rd, 2007
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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Chocolate Jesus for Easter but no Smarties
Posted by: Eolaí on March 30th, 2007
As the western Christian world gears up to celebrating the most important week in the Christian calendar, by gorging on large chocolate eggs (where I’m […]
Irish Mother’s Day
Posted by: Eolaí on March 18th, 2007
If you’re reading this in America, and you have a mother in Ireland, well you may want to know that today is a day many […]
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All Together Now, Drink. In Sync.
Posted by: Eolaí on March 14th, 2007
I like groups. At school in Dublin the Brothers took us to see Lord of The Flies to show us that man was not meant […]
The Irish Panda
Posted by: Eolaí on March 4th, 2007
Traditionally, at the very beginning of March, those who are very lucky get to see an Irish Panda.
In the 5th century a young St Patrick […]
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I’m Reminded of the British Police by Valentine’s Day in the USA
Posted by: Eolaí on February 15th, 2007
USA & Ireland Little Difference #20: Valentine’s Day
What’s wrong with America on Valentine’s Day, is what always reminds me of one of so many meetings […]
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Feels Like Valentine’s Day
Posted by: Eolaí on February 14th, 2007
In Centigrade right now, at half-one in the morning in Kansas City it is -13C with, I am told, a Real Feel of -23C.
I […]
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MLK Day
Posted by: Eolaí on January 15th, 2007
So it’s MLK Day here in the US of A. What does it mean? What happens?
Well I’m sure plenty of things happen somewhere, but to […]
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So, how was it for you?
Posted by: Eolaí on January 2nd, 2007
Okay boys and girls, a lot of people have been asking about Christmas here in Towers gan Fhéile, and about 2007 of all things. […]
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New Year’s Day 2007
Posted by: Eolaí on January 1st, 2007
I only ever wish a Prosperous New Year to those who live in Clane.
As for everybody else who comes to Irish KC, I hope […]
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New Year’s List
Posted by: Eolaí on December 31st, 2006
Dotted in amongst the last several posts are a handful pertinent to the year we bid goodbye to tonight, by coincidence one of my favourite […]
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