A month from today, on Friday June 15, 2007, the Irish movie Once opens at the Tivoli in Kansas City.
Update: Once has been held over […]

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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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The interval at Eurovision and the votes are about to come in.
Strongest songs are probably Latvia and Serbia. Beyond that […]

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Kansas City got a mention last week on the Irish radio programme Talking History courtesy of Irish KC.
While a mention on a show mostly about […]

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Last night I was talking with one of the committee members for the Jennifer Ireland Foundation, and he told me that there are still some […]

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There’s something unreal about being Irish today.
And actually it’s been kind of unreal the last six weeks with phone calls home to Ireland yielding […]

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Ireland has laid claim to the son of a Kansas mother, Barack Obama.
Wait a minute, you’re thinking, we already know this. Didn’t somebody establish a […]

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Yes, you can see both Ireland and Kansas City not only on the same day, but also in the same place.
Huh?
Football.
Uh?
Well soccer then.
Oh.
On Saturday, May […]

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My brother will be on the radio in Ireland this Sunday, May 6, 2007.
Brother the Younger will be a guest on Talking History with Patrick […]

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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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A major charity event

Cannes 2006 Palme d’Or Winner
The Wind That Shakes The Barley
THE KANSAS CITY PREMIERE
With Special Guest Máirtín de Cógáin
Tivoli Theatre
May 10, 2007
A Benefit […]

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Is it a pub quiz when it’s not at a pub? The International Relations Council had their annual quiz during the week. It’s called World […]

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I was thinking of a phrase you don’t hear very often in Kansas City.
Assuming you don’t have a television or watch British parliamentary debates […]

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Here’s some photos of Dublin which might illustrate that living in KC I miss grey much more than I miss green.
All were taken before I […]

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Directions from Kansas City, Missouri to Dublin, Ireland.
Because sometimes I forget the way home.
Google maps sends me to Massachussetts, and then suggests I […]

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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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• A Maamturk challenge
• An American in south Dublin’s ruins
• Favourite Irish joke of the week/month/year
• A “David Brent-esque” Bill O’Reilly in Ireland
• The European […]

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On the 95th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, there’s a lot of interesting news about the ship that was built in Belfast and […]

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Something I haven’t noticed a tendency for here in Kansas City is playfulness with language. Compared with what I was used to in Ireland, that […]

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Irish major entertainment blog Blogorrah today gave the heads up on The Police performing at Dublin’s Croke Park in October this year.
Maybe I’ve forgotten, but […]

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