Irish Character Play Palomino at the KC Rep
Posted by: Eolaí on November 6th, 2009
Something else I meant to tell you about weeks ago is Palomino, a play about an Irish horse-drawn carriage driver in New York’s Central Park, […]
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Peter Fallon, Irish Poet Reading in Kansas
Posted by: Eolaí on March 19th, 2009
Peter Fallon, the Irish Poet and celebrated publisher is reading from his works in the Mabee Theatre at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas on Tuesday, […]
Irish Play at Union Station Wows Critics
Posted by: Eolaí on August 28th, 2008
I thought I’d featured Brian Friel’s classic Irish play Translations earlier.
The Actors Theatre of Kansas City Production of Translations is currently showing at the City […]
Irish Performance Poet Mac Lochlainn in Kansas City, MO
Posted by: Eolaí on August 18th, 2008
On Friday, August 29, 2008 Irish performance poet and musician, Belfast’s Gearóid Mac Lochlainn, reads at the Writers Place in midtown Kansas City, Missouri, and […]
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Irish Center Adds Dracula to Book Club
Posted by: Eolaí on August 11th, 2008
Among the Fall 2008 program of events currently being announced by the Kansas City Irish Museum & Cultural Center (IMCC) is an Irish book club.
Commencing […]
Irish Pious Woman Locked
Posted by: Eolaí on July 9th, 2008
Irish pious woman locked.
Locked in a loveless marriage.
Ha ha, see what I did there?
We’re talking Shakespeare in Kansas City. Kind of.
Desdemona, a Play […]
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Bloomsday in Kansas City Part 2
Posted by: Eolaí on June 16th, 2008
It’s Bloomsday. And just like Bloomsday, I’m in Dublin. Trying to avoid a pub all day.
A good puzzle as it happens.
But in Kansas City […]
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Irish Writer’s Faith Healer at the Unicorn Theatre
Posted by: Eolaí on May 12th, 2008
There’s still a week left of the current run of Brian Friel’s “Faith Healer” at the Unicorn.
Told in 4 monologues, “Faith Healer” tells a series […]
Corned Beef: Long Comment Alert
Posted by: Eolaí on March 29th, 2008
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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Irish Poet Paul Muldoon in Lawrence, KS
Posted by: Eolaí on February 21st, 2008
On Wednesday, February 27, 2008 Paul Muldoon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Irish poet, gives a lecture in the Humanities series called The Eternity of the Poem […]
Irish Violence and Comedy in Kansas City
Posted by: Eolaí on October 26th, 2007
There’s more on the Irish play currently showing at the Unicorn, in the KC Community News.
We’re talking award-winning Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore again.
I […]
Irish Theatre Mangiare in University of Kansas
Posted by: Eolaí on October 25th, 2007
Mangiare Theatre Company in Ireland is currently holding a 3-day workshop at KU culminating in a performance of Michael West’s “A Play On Two Chairs” […]
‘Oh, the blood, the blood!’ But it’s really funny.
Posted by: Eolaí on October 21st, 2007
Robert Trussel of the Kansas City Star has more to say on the Irish play, Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore which started its run […]
Is This About Sex?
Posted by: Eolaí on October 8th, 2007
I went to a play last week. In the Dublin Theatre Festival.
Is This About Sex?
Not really. But not not really either.
Using sexual manners and […]
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Kansas Actor Kip Niven in Irish Play at KU
Posted by: Eolaí on October 7th, 2007
Kip Niven, who I mentioned is a special guest star in the Irish play Translations by Brian Friel, is featured in the Lawrence Journal-World
A Prairie […]
Brian Friel’s Translations
Posted by: Eolaí on September 29th, 2007
The University of Kansas Department of Theatre and Film and University Theatre is presenting a production of Brian Friel’s Irish play Translations at 7:30pm on […]
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The Midwest American Conference of Irish Studies 2007
Posted by: Eolaí on September 4th, 2007
Voices and Visions: Ireland Across Disciplines
The 2007 Midwest ACIS Conference takes place on 18-20 October 2007 at University of Missouri, Kansas City
The American […]
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Festival Might Expand To A Week Long in 2008
Posted by: Eolaí on September 3rd, 2007
A report in the Kansas City Star over the weekend says that prompted by decreasing attendance figures 2008 might see a 6-day long event, extended […]
Irish Play for KC: The Lieutenant of Inishmore
Posted by: Eolaí on August 27th, 2007
Spraying blood, bullets in the head, corpse dismemberments - yes it’s Irish comedy time.
The Lieutenant of Inishmore by acclaimed London-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh is coming […]
Larry Kirwan Waxes James Joyce
Posted by: Eolaí on June 23rd, 2007
Larry Kirwan of Black 47 has wished everyone a belated Happy Bloomsday.
Strictly speaking he’s wishing us a Happy Mollyday as he renames it. Larry considers […]
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