I’m painting away and should have some more to offer at $99 very soon. Most are Irish. I’ll see if I can find some other […]

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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 a recent conversation with Pitch Weekly Music Editor, Jason Harper, I bemoaned his lack of enthusiasm for the harpist who made everybody’s Best Of […]

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Q. What is it like to drive on the left-hand side of the road?
A. I hate cars. Everything about them. I couldn’t even tell you […]

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Actually they’re not new at all; they’ve both been around for yonks, but they are new additions to the Irish section of the far sidebar.
One […]

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Colorado’s Irish Western Rockish Band The Indulgers who had a, ahem, brief pause there before Thanksgiving, roared back with an announcement of a tour of […]

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I’ve been meaning to post on the American release of The Wind That Shakes The Barley since it was first announced back in August. It’s […]

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Beehive Hut
12″ x 16″
Available as print only. Prices start from $25.47

Here’s a painting of a Beehive Hut - Clochán - on the Dingle peninsula in […]

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Assuming you don’t already call Ireland from the US for free, you should be interested in a new way you can do so, called AllFreeCalls.net.
Free? […]

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Yesterday Damien opened the nominations for the Irish Blog Awards.
They’ll be open until 5:59pm (KC time) on Friday January 26th. The awards themselves take place […]

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Colonialism is rendered in that autobiography as a tyranny of books over life; and so the nervous youth begins with borrowed styles, in the manner […]

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Once upon a time Irish people, whoever they were - probably those who slaughtered the Tuatha Dé Danann - drank alcohol in public places such […]

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Burren Tower
$195 to Irish KC readers
Update: SOLD
12″ x 16″,
Framed
The Burren is as gorgeous close up as it in the grander view. Famed for its […]

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A few years ago a man in Kansas City asked me to show him photographs of my trip home to Ireland that I had just […]

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One of my favourite podcasts is the Persuaders Marketing Podcast by Alex Gibson, and earlier this month The Persuaders posted their Irish Marketing Review of […]

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Resting Places is the documentary by Melissa Villanueva on the growth in the Western World of roadside Christian crosses marking where loved ones lost their […]

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1988
Loyalist Michael Stone attacks the Milltown Cemetary during the funerals of the three IRA members killed by the SAS in Gibraltar.
Using bullets and grenades Stone […]

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Gallarus Stone
12″ x 16″
On canvas
Available as print only
This painting of a carved slab by the Gallerus Oratory at the end of the Dingle Peninsula in […]

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One of the coolest developments in the world of Irish internets has been the creation of the Irish Politics website by Damien Mulley and Robert […]

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Three paintings of Kinsale in County Cork. For pubs, castles, forts, and unusually, restaurants, Kinsale is hard not to like. Especially out of tourist season.
And […]

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