Here’s a great article in today’s Belfast Telegraph that salutes young American men who died in World War II in Ireland including some from Kansas.
Although […]

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The current edition of Kansas City’s online magazine Present has Laren Mahoney, a Kansas City resident, sharing eight pages of photographs of her travels in […]

Read: Ireland with the Elders: Photos in KC Magazine »

I knew that BBC documentary on Kansas lovely Phelps’ family would have an impact on home. And by home I mean Ireland, not Waldo.
From BBC […]

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Do you remember young Stephanie from Kansas?
Well of late in Ireland Stephanie has been getting around. Killarney, Bantry, and the North. And she’s been […]

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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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It’s Sunday, and it’s sunny, so naturally I am indoors reading the papers.
Reading the papers of course involves no actual paper anymore, which is a […]

Read: I Read The News Today, Oh Boy »

Here’s a familiar post, but what the heck.
Get your green on. You’re Irish today. Yadda, yadda, yadda. Ireland kick off against Slovakia in just under […]

Read: Watch Ireland Slovakia in Euro 2008 Qualifier in KC, MO »

Excuse my manners. Irish KC has had many hundreds of visitors yesterday, and many more today, from Slugger - due to this post on Bertie’s […]

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In 1985 not a day in the whole year went by without me thinking of what was happening in South Africa. That was probably due […]

Read: Irish Politics. One Day. Two Links. »

Nostalgia time. And a list.
Ten pieces of prime advice from an Irish childhood.
Universal themes I suspect.
All in all, as a child it was a […]

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Another day for Irish politics. Another deadline.
Let’s have a quick look through the progress over the last eight years from one person’s viewpoint - An […]

Read: Bertie Ahern on the North »

Ah yes, the practicalities of living in a city not in your own country.
Excuse my silence Kansas City. I am trying to watch Ireland live […]

Read: Watching Ireland Play Wales in KC »

A couple of years ago there was a lot of Scottish music at the Irish festival in Crown Center, some of it by way of […]

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A few people in Kansas City have said to me over the last few days that, compared to what was going in in KC, Paddy’s […]

Read: Paddy’s Day, Not a Big Deal in Ireland? »

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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Look what Kansas City does to my memory of Tralee. It’s eighteen months since I’ve been to Kerry, and longer since I was in Tralee.
This […]

Read: New Irish Painting: Tralee, Kerry »

Ah yes, relief, exhilaration, frustration. Interesting moments when you finish a painting. You’re done. Relieved mostly as you down the brush.
Then you walk away […]

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Currently on tour with the Chieftains, the all-female Irish traditional outfit Líadan, graduates of the Irish World Music Center at the University of Limerick, are […]

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For the next while I will be posting new paintings of Ireland as I complete them.
While you’re waiting for these, you can always check […]

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DeMolay was started in Kansas City in 1919. Kind of a young masons it creeps me out because things that encourage virtues make me feel […]

Read: Walt Disney Wore A Claddagh »