What would you do to persuade your man to play Irish music on the streets of an Irish city? Kansas City’s Katy considers the Irish […]

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Are you an Irish citizen born in Ireland, but living here in Kansas City or elsewhere in the US? Well if you’re planning your 100th […]

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Are you a weak, pathetic booze-hound who despises every detail of your hellish, pub-bound existence? Then you’re clearly not Irish.
Sam Delaney explores the stereotype […]

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Being ignorant of developments in Irish choral music in the early 1990s I was thinking I needed a severe scolding on the matter, ideally by […]

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I drink in Kansas City.
[Update: This post was written in April 2006, over a year before I was to return to my native Dublin]
And […]

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One of the great things about living in Dublin was the miserable weather. Often you’d find yourself with visiting friends from England or much further, […]

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Magnum Photos, the international co-operative of independent photographers with members elected from all over the world, is featured in a free exhibition at IMMA that […]

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The Kansas City Star yesterday ran a feature on A Dozen Magical Music Moments from the Movies and it included The Commitments at number one, […]

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If you want to see what American culture has done to Irish culture, or vice versa, you might want to have a look at this […]

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The Elders are geting ready to announce details of their tour of Ireland in March of next year.
In The Elders forum, Ian’s brother Paul […]

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Aaron Svoboda from the Wild Clover Band has made available his journal of the Trip to Ireland he and his wife went on last year. […]

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All the great splits in Irish Republicanism have basically been about whether the independent Irish state of the day should be considered legitimate as constituted. […]

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Speaking of Ireland’s Easter Rising, the first military parade in 37 years was held in Dublin yesterday to commemorate the 90th Anniversary of the 1916 […]

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Speaking of the 1916 Rising, there is a commemorative concert to mark its 90th anniversary in St Louis on April 24.
It features The Xiles who […]

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Speaking of Irish anniversaries, 2006 marks the 90th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising.
The reason Mexican flags on the streets of the United States are […]

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Speaking of things from Missouri, St Louis duo KRISTEENYOUNG have been selected to open Morrissey’s shows at Ireland’s National Event Centre (INEC) in Killarney, Kerry […]

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As Katy in Kansas City delves further into her Irish grandfather’s history she notices that today, April 11, is the 80th anniversary of the finding […]

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In the comments on my overlong paragraph of missed items, Dan quotes some illuminating statistics from Eoin Kennedy of Tourism Ireland from the Irish Fest […]

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The short answer is I miss talking and I miss walking. But I’m not good at short answers.
I miss the mountains, soft grass under my […]

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The third annual CeltFest at Odessa College in Texas took place over the weekend, and the organizer is pleased because it finally brought non-Celtic people […]

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