A few days ago my brother in Ireland sent me an article from the Irish Times.
It was by Kate Holmquist about a new book making […]

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Comment of the Week on Irish KC is a greater honour than you might think - because it’s not awarded every week.
In fact I can’t […]

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There’s an interesting report on Bloomberg looking at the impact of the failure of the recent immigration bill to pass.
English-speaking (which includes the Irish), […]

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Here’s something I forgot to mention on my list of homesick cures for the Irish in America.
It’s actually the one I do the most. Not […]

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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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For any Irish who may be homesick in America, though it may well apply to Irish emigrants in other parts of the world, here’s a […]

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The Washington Post is a bit behind on the news, but it does contain more reaction to the Irish roots of Barack Obama recently uncovered […]

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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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Tom McNamee in the Chicago Sun-Times has been responding to criticism of criticism, such as:
Please, in the future refrain from identifying yourself as Irish. You […]

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49 ABC News has an article today on the first Irish immigrants to Kansas and their impact.
Joy Brennan, Folk Arts Program Co-ordinator for the Kansas […]

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Not to be outdone by The Elders in the Star, the Delahunts are in the paper also. The Dublin brothers are in The X
Colm and […]

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As I approach my eighth aniversary of being in America some people keep telling me that I haven’t lost my Irish accent.
Actually, I have; I […]

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Just a thought. Given that Saint Brigid is Ireland’s most important saint after St. Patrick, and so many people use the Feast Day of Saint […]

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Sometimes, believe it or not, I don’t want to talk. Luckily on the web you don’t have to - you can just link.
Some people […]

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Yesterday, January 25th, was the anniversary of Robbie Burns’ birthday, so it’s the time of year when all over the world, Scottish people have Burns’ […]

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Celebrated Irish bigamist Oliver Killeen has been at it again.
Featured in a documentary in Britain last year for being the man who married fourteeen […]

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Speaking of Muhammad Ali and his visit to Dublin West in 1972 (when he ran over my sister’s toe), the BBC has a nice slideshow […]

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In advance of the Cowboy Junkies appearance at the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow, the Sunday Herald has a long piece about an old cowboy […]

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Today’s Kansas City Star has a tribute to a member of the Irish community who sadly passed on December 29.
Teresa McGilley Redlingshafer, of Overland Park, […]

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