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Posted by: Eolaí on October 2nd, 2006
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Zipping Around the Web
Posted by: Eolaí on October 1st, 2006
• I’ve been waiting for ages for an excuse to link to Ze Frank, and then he only talks about Kansas City - which is […]
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1916 Easter Rising Presentation by Lorcan Collins
Posted by: Eolaí on September 30th, 2006
Lorcan Collins is the founder of the 1916 Rebellion Walking Tour and co-author with Conor Kostick of the Easter Rising. Using a slide projector Lorcan […]
10 Songs They Taught Us In School
Posted by: Eolaí on September 29th, 2006
Trup Trup a Chapaillín - Or, Giddy Up There Pony. The first song I learned at school, but being aged four, and it being a […]
Young Dubliners Ireland Tour 2006
Posted by: Eolaí on September 22nd, 2006
You’ve got to hand it to Keith Roberts of the Young Dubliners, frequent visitors to Kansas City and due at Weston in October. Not only […]
Ryder Cup Links
Posted by: Eolaí on September 21st, 2006
I can’t help it, with the world focusing on a lump of land not a million miles from where I’m from, I’m just finding a […]
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Around the World and Mind the Dresser
Posted by: Eolaí on September 20th, 2006
If you’re interested in what is going on the world of the Irish beyond Kansas City, here’s ten stories for ya:
• The Irish Government is […]
Irish Music Through The Ages
Posted by: Eolaí on September 16th, 2006
As a service to Kansas City, so KC can be aware of where the Irish music in town came from, I’d like to point people […]
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Busking at the Cliffs of Moher
Posted by: Eolaí on September 15th, 2006
The Cliffs of Moher. You crawl to the edge, and your testicles crawl somewhere else. Such is the power of nature and a sheer drop […]
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Celtic Fest Chicago
Posted by: Eolaí on September 14th, 2006
Celtic Fest Chicago is a two-day festival in Chicago’s Grant Park on Septemebr 16 & 17, with FREE admission, that celebrates the music, dance and […]
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Black 47: After Kansas City
Posted by: Eolaí on September 6th, 2006
If you enjoyed Black 47 in Kansas City Labor Day Weekend, you might be interested to know that you need to get your skates on […]
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Flying to Ireland from Kansas City
Posted by: Eolaí on August 30th, 2006
So I’m back in Kansas City a couple of days, enough to know again that the days have names. And all things being equal I […]
10 Things I Heard on Holiday in Ireland
Posted by: Eolaí on August 27th, 2006
Granted it was only a two week holiday home, but here’s a short list of things I’ve heard more than once on this trip […]
Cherish The Delays
Posted by: Eolaí on August 24th, 2006
Some trips home are wonderfully relaxing. Others are more of a blur. This trip is one of the blur variety.
I’m writing this in a […]
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Lying Low in the Fields of Athenry
Posted by: Eolaí on August 23rd, 2006
Looking at the fields by Athenry today I was thinking. It’s a space issue. Irish landscapes have so little space to work with that you […]
Stereotypical Irish Breakfast
Posted by: Eolaí on August 22nd, 2006
Being an Irish stereotype before emigrating was never an issue. Because you didn’t know. You only knew when tourists came to town and told you […]
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A City in Missouri
Posted by: Eolaí on August 17th, 2006
More and more people in Ireland are saying the word “City” after they say the word “Kansas”. I like to think this is because I […]
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Mise Eire
Posted by: Eolaí on August 16th, 2006
This should be cliched, but in all the times I’ve flown into Ireland it’s never happened before. Not to music.
Woke up as the plane tilted […]
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Chippers and Morbid Realism
Posted by: Eolaí on August 8th, 2006
The cruelest thing Ireland ever did to me was having me sign on for unemployment right by one of Dublin’s great chippers.
Werburgh Street, like […]
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Irish Press Banned as Irish Independence Revoked
Posted by: Eolaí on August 6th, 2006
The recent Chris Moyles Bob Geldof thing reminded me of when I worked in England and my English boss - who was about to go […]
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