• St Patrick’s Day lingerie
• Not how we drew maps of Ireland at school
• 40 Megalithic Yards squared? An Irish Acre. And it’s smaller than […]

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  • Irish blog Comment of the month
  • Frank McCourt at the Oxonian Society
  • Technology & Unionism
  • The most Irish place outside Ireland
  • Irish Breweries - […]

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As I approach my eighth aniversary of being in America some people keep telling me that I haven’t lost my Irish accent.
Actually, I have; I […]

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The seventh year of the Irish music industry’s Meteor Ireland Music Awards was held on Thursday and broadcast on RTE last night.
They might not mean […]

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We are currently deep in the heart of winter deep in the heart of the country. It’s rather colder than winters in Ireland.
And freezing […]

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Sometimes, believe it or not, I don’t want to talk. Luckily on the web you don’t have to - you can just link.
Some people […]

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Dotted in amongst the last several posts are a handful pertinent to the year we bid goodbye to tonight, by coincidence one of my favourite […]

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2006 - The year Irish KC launched, despite what the archives might suggest.
2006 - The year Eddie Delahunt opened a cafe that also hosts special […]

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While posts such as A Kansas City Phone Call to an Irish Mother are among the most popular over time with Irish KC readers, the […]

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In The Irish Times Siobhán Long has her top Irish Traditional Music albums of 2006.
Before running through the list Siobhán recaps on the year with […]

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My imminent return to Ireland has prompted Primal Sneeze to compile a list of what hasn’t changed at all at home while I’ve been in […]

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Lat week TIME Magazine published what it called its All-TIME 100 Albums. It’s a list of what it calls the “the greatest and most influential […]

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In the world of Irish music, there’s news of Eurovision, sectarian muders gangs, Michael Flatley, Damien Rice on tour, and Bono.
I’m actually drifting in and […]

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Words like ‘Celtic’, ‘fusion’, ‘contemporary’, ‘fusion’, ‘jazz’, and ‘fusion’ are used a lot when people describe Bad Haggis. For me though, Bad Haggis manage to […]

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• You eat people
• Your music has more than two dimensions
• You love sports nobody, not even you, plays
• You’re surprised by American soul singers
• […]

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Once upon-a-time, on Hallowe’en in Ireland:
1. Which of the following did you never find inside a brack?
    a) Coin
    b) Ring
    c) Cloth
    d) Plastic […]

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Being asked to nominate the best song from the exalted canon of The Clash, is a task befitting the wise and, ideally, those who weren’t […]

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Before we get too much further into this Best of 2006 lark, let me get 2005 out of the way.
Regardless of what I say I […]

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You remember the 1st Celtic Music Awards by the Celtic MP3s Music Magazine? The Elders of Kansas City came second in the Top 10 Celtic […]

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• Nearly three times more Americans moved to Ireland last year than Irish immigrated to the United States. (NY Times via Blogorrah)
• New Irish RFID […]

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