Because it’s long, very long, I’m pointing you at a comment on Corned Beef & Cabbage.
Joyce, Pepys, and Middle-Irish, they’re all there - with […]

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Christopher Wilson had his words on his trip to Ireland published in the Kansas City Star yesterday.
In the Where I’ve Been series you are […]

Read: Christopher Went to the Giant’s Causeway »

Speaking of whiskey (when talking about the Irish Whiskey Tasting), Anne Brockhoff in the Kansas City Star this week included among her recommendations for well-made […]

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From the beginning to the end of this article on our Taoiseach’s questionable financial affairs, we find that Bertie Ahern’s former secreatry Grainne Carruth, is […]

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This time every year in America, people asked me, What did the Easter Bunny bring you when you were a kid in Ireland?
And much less […]

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When I was a kid Tallaght was a village, the last place you went through on your way into the mountains.
When I grew up Tallaght […]

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From Cavan a Cavanaugh changed into a Cavenoid.
With ancestors all from Kansas. A Kansas that’s pretty much like Cavan.
And all that is good enough reason […]

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Homogenisation. Pasteurisation. Cold Flow. Extra Cold. Ice-Cold even. Ice cold?
There was a time, when if served a pint that seemed a bit cold, you and […]

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There is a presentation on the most famous of Irish illuminated manuscripts, the Book of Kells, by Joanna Carraway of Rockhurst University, this Sunday, March […]

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Kevin Myers, the much reviled commentator on life in Ireland uses the state of Kansas as a device for illustrating the moral state of modern […]

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The elders of Kansas City played here in Ireland in my hometown of Dublin on Monday night.
It was in Whelan’s, which is a great venue. […]

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Last night I took myself and my multiple identities to the Irish Blog Awards. Managing many versions of yourself is not so easy away from […]

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Will Ferrell was in Kansas recently promoting Semi-Pro.
The Lawrence Journal World carried the story.
And because he lives in a world of catchphrases and repeated lines, […]

Read: Will Ferrell’s Anchorman Huge in Ireland »

In case things don’t go any further, I’d like to say a couple of thank yous.
[Update 2010: My personal blog Bicyclistic has WON for Best […]

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My American dog has arrived in Ireland.
Yesterday, Dog-dog left Kansas City in temperatures colder than it will ever experience in Ireland, and changed flights […]

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Were I a better person I would have kept record of the paragraphs I wrote in support of each of my nominations for the 2008 […]

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Maybe it’s an over-reaction on my part.
Before I move countries there’s alway a sign. A sign that things just aren’t quite right where you […]

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About a dozen blogs have been added to my Irish blogroll.
This should more accurately reflect blogs I’ve been reading regularly and intermittently through 2007.
I’ve […]

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From Dublin airport today I managed to squeeze in a Christmas Eve stroll around town on my way to the family home.
Dublin was vibrant as […]

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A further update on the Irish Health Service story featured a couple of days ago. Going by the name of “Mary” the author of the […]

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