The Tony Awards were announced last night, and three Irish plays featured. The Kansas City Star’s Robert Trussell was in New York to review some […]

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There’s a corner of Tipperary where the accent to the unfamiliar sometimes has people believing the speakers are English or somehow fake.
It’s an […]

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Carrie Kabak is an Irish and British citizen living in Kansas City, Missouri, who has just had her novel Cover the Butter launched in paperback […]

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Over in Springfield, The Actors Theatre of Missouri ends its first full season with Conor McPherson’s The Weir, and it is reviewed today by Larry […]

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Speaking of Larry Kirwan of Black 47, Larry has been serializing his latest play The Heart Has A Mind of its Own on his MySpace […]

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The Wyandotte Players, who present their shows at Kansas City Kansas Community College, are offering the Irish play, Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane […]

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Bloomsday, June 16, 1904 - the date of the setting of Ulysses, and celebrated for about seventy years - might be getting a new holiday […]

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The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh, will lead off The Unicorn Theatre’s 2006-2007 season. Previously the Unicorn have staged McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane and […]

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Speaking of Lillies Bordello, well, I don’t like Lillies.
Whenever I would walk down that side of Grafton Street where the alley comes out, the […]

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Eoin Colfer, author of the multi-million-selling Artemis Fowl series loves meeting his young readers so much that he makes his public appearances an event.
His […]

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Speaking of Michael Collins, congratulations are due to another Michael Collins - the Washington-based author who has been asked to represent Ireland in the 100km […]

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You know that Bernard Shaw is the only person to have won a Nobel Prize for Literature and an Oscar for best Screenplay, but who […]

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Speaking of Scottish Festivals and Highland Games I was talking yesterday to somebody who attended the rather unique Kansas festival that is Th’Gatherin.
Held out close […]

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What’s Bono up to these days? He’s about to be editor for a day of British newspaper The Independent to highlight the AIDS problem in […]

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A: Sheena Was a Punk Rocker
Why do I have to have a favourite Irish song? What’s your favourite American song?
In the Irish trad music sense, […]

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Speaking of Bloomsday in Kansas City, Tom Shawver of Bloomsday Books has written a lovely piece of what it means to run this most wonderful […]

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Go HERE for Bloomsday 2007 in KC
NOTE: The following all pertains to the 2006 event, though much of it applies to any year:
On June 16 […]

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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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Oscar Wilde, Irish anniversaries, Samuel Beckett, socialism, William Shakespeare, Irish art, Prime Ministers, and fashion, are some of the subjects you’ve seen on Irish KC […]

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Speaking of Irish poets and dandies, here’s a couple who are doing not bad, peachy, corking:
Irish-American poet and raiser of Irish donkeys, Thomas Lynch, is […]

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