Bloomsday 2007. An Irish celebration in Kansas City.
Why would you go?
1. It’s FREE
2. There’s Beer
3. The book is the laugh-out-loud kind of fun
4. You don’t […]

Read: 20 Reasons for a KC Party About an Irish Book »

John Mark Eberhart in the Kansas City Star gives a plug to the Bloomsday Celebration on Saturday June 16, 2007.
Live Irish music from Eddie Delahunt […]

Read: Star Reminder of Irish Book Party »

In my post on Fun in America and elsewhere I’ve referred to ‘Craic’ being an English term that was then Gaelicized, and Conor has said […]

Read: ‘Craic’ or ‘Crack’: Is it Irish? »

The Literary Festival, at Kansas City’s Country Club Plaza yesterday, drew a large crowd exceeding the hopes of the organizers and probably ensuring the festival […]

Read: KC Literary Festival Gets Crowds Good Enough to Ensure 2008 »

The Kansas City Literary Festival of course isn’t specifically an irish event; it just has a significant Irish element.
Well, if by any chance you’re sick […]

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Present Magazine, Kansas City’s increasingly impressive online magazine, has a feature on Connie Dover and her first book of poetry, Winter Count
There are a couple […]

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One of the most interesting things in the Irish world of Kansas City takes place this coming weekend May 17 through May 20, 2007 - […]

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Tom Shawver of Bloomsday Books tells me that Eddie Delahunt is confirmed for his annual performance at the FREE mini-festival that is the Bloomsday celebration.
Tom […]

Read: Charms & Delahunt for Bloomsday 2007 »

Being Irish and walking among American flagpoles with their flags at half-mast has me thinking of the dead.
You know the way we sing happy-clappy sing-a-longy […]

Read: Appreciating the Living: The Politics of the Last Atrocity »

On Saturday June 16, 2007, Browne’s Irish Market & Deli are having their 120th Anniversary Street Fair.
Brownes’ on St Patrick’s Day is such a […]

Read: Browne’s Irish Street Party in KC, MO »

A quick reminder that the reading by the Irish poet Desmond Egan at Rockhurst’s Mabee Theatre is today, Sunday, March 25, 2007 at 2pm, and […]

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Boys and girls, right now because of Paddy’s Day in Kansas City, I have approaching fifty posts and pages in draft, and I wish I’d […]

Read: Thank Dog for Gods »

On May 19 a group of venues on the Plaza will play host to the new Kansas City Literary Festival, and one of them will […]

Read: Malachy McCourt for Kansas City Literary Festival »

Irish poet Desmond Egan is appearing at Rockhurst University’s Mabee Theater on Sunday, March 25, at 2 pm. in an event put together by Rockhurst […]

Read: Irish Poet Desmond Egan at Rockhurst, Kansas City, MO »

  • 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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Those of you who remember the great review the Wichita Eagle gave Seamus Heaney’s District and Circle a couple of months ago, might be particularly […]

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Colonialism is rendered in that autobiography as a tyranny of books over life; and so the nervous youth begins with borrowed styles, in the manner […]

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Yesterday Blogonomicon named Gordon Parks (1912-2006) as its pipesmoker of the week. Yes, the director of Shaft and famed photographer.
And why does Irish KC care? […]

Read: Gordon Parks, Pipesmoker of the Week #46 »

The Irish Wilderness in Oregon County, Missouri is the subject of the first novel by Veronica Roberts featured in The South Missourian News
It’s a story […]

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Just to follow up on Frank McCourt’s visit to MSU, Springfield’s News-Leader has more quotes from the man about where he is now.
Well actually where […]

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