I knew I had it somewhere.
I’ve just found my old Post Office Savings Bank book from Ireland.
Banc Taisce an Phoist.
I started it in 1974 with […]

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My dog was the featured video today on YouTube for Ireland.
If it’s no longer there then you still have 3 other places where you can […]

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Today I was contacted from Ireland and offered an exhibition in Dublin.
That’s better than a poke in the eye by somebody with a smelly finger.
It’s […]

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It’s not so much that I don’t have anything to say at the moment, but that I have too much to say.
But ignoring that, here’s […]

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Today I close down the online store for buying my paintings at reduced prices. Or any prices for that matter.
Today the paintings start to get […]

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I’m not back in Ireland just yet, I’m still in KC, but if I was this is the music I would be going to see […]

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Sunday Short time.
Strictly speaking this is not an Irish Short Film. But it is a film, and it’s Irish, and it’s short.
It’s episode 7 from […]

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Ireland’s Sunday Business Post just carried a story of people in Ireland losing money in postal scams.
Trying to establish how many Irish consumers are being […]

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Here’s a few random notes for the here and now readers among you.
If you’re reading these notes there and then, I apologise.
Bear in mind […]

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A wine with an Irish name has been named by Kansas City’s Present magazine as the wine that “may be the best wine dollar for […]

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Finbar Lebowitz is this week’s Sunday Short - the irregular post I do featuring an Irish short film.
Made in 2000 and set in Dublin, it’s […]

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Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, the Irish musician I spoke about 3 months ago, stopped by IrishKC on MySpace a few days ago and left a very […]

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Now you might think I’ve been doing nothing here it seeming so quiet at Towers gan Fhéile, and you’d be right.
However when I do nothing, […]

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Have ya heard Liam Ó Maonlai’s brand new Song For Tara?
Listen to Tara’s Eye (Money Mad Mile) on MySpace, and wonder if you can do […]

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Pearse’s Cottage. In Rosmuc, County Galway. Where Patrick Pearse spent his summers. Before that trip to the GPO.
This is a big painting. And I’m leaving […]

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Irish musical movie Once has bee retined for, oh, week 7 exclusively at Kansas City’s Tivoli - but who’s counting anymore?
See:
  • Trailer & Reviews
  • Live […]

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Duffel Coat. A short film by Alex Gill.
It’s Sunday so here’s your Sunday Short, the irregular posting I do of Irish short films.
Duffel Coat stars […]

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Speaking of Horslips and Dearg Doom, the track does of course come from the seminal Celtic Rock concept album The Táin.
The story of The Táin […]

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In this city that boasts more fountains than Rome (or everywhere else but), every morning shortly after sunrise I watch a couple of men advance […]

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Note: I’ve added a painting I did of Ireland’s cycling stage race, The Rás (An Rás Tailteann) to that post about the American cyclist who […]

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