Kennedy’s Bar & Grill of 75th Street in south Kansas City is reopening.
Just 6 months after the Waldo fire that completely destroyed it and several […]

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Do you remember the recent concert by Doug Goodhart and Mason Brown?
Well 3 fantastic sounding tracks from that gig in Lenexa, Kansas have been made […]

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Sweltering. 45th & State Line. Cafe &. Nice night for a cycle. Aproned Eddie mans the gate with Gabe. Máirtín introducing Dick Darby on stage. […]

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Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, the Irish musician I spoke about 3 months ago, stopped by IrishKC on MySpace a few days ago and left a very […]

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To show you I don’t lie.
A photo. Of a church sign.
Since writing about it last November, I’ve nothing new to say about this notion of […]

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Speaking of Horslips and Dearg Doom, the track does of course come from the seminal Celtic Rock concept album The Táin.
The story of The Táin […]

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The parents have been galivanting around Ireland again.
Sligo and Donegal.
Of course it’s easy for them as they actually live there, and thanks to the […]

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The plan today was to show you my photos of the first recital by the KC Trad School that took place yesterday.
However, my camera didn’t […]

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By popular demand, here is a photo of The Dog.
Equally adept with either paw, The Dog is seen here warming up with a soccer ball […]

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He got a late start, but Kansas City’s most famous walking blogger, Scoot, is currently walking a planned distance of 40 miles, from Liberty on […]

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One of the greatest sights I first noticed in Kansas City, was this great mural depicting Dublin’s legendary 1983 All-Ireland winner, Kieran Duff.
Dublin’s forward Duff, […]

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There are some nice photos of Kansas City’s trad band Glen Road performing with Mason Browne and Charlene Adzima back in April over on Mason’s […]

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Since most of my family are still in Ireland, we do what all familes separated by thousands of miles do. We swap photos online.
I mentioned […]

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A week ago I had to go on a tea run. I knew this because the Charge of the Light Brigade was passing through my […]

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Free beer and hot weather. An intoxicating combination.
And it’s probably best to go to bed the night before such a day.
I did my reading, spotting […]

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So I’m sitting on the small ivy-covered wall, listening to live music and getting my bottom bitten, and I’m thinking, god my head hurts.
Don’t […]

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The Morgue File in Saturday’s Crime Scene KC blog had some great photos of that celebrated Irish-American Tom Pendergast.
They include the courtroom huddle during sentencing […]

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[Update: After a couple of major hold-ups, the journal of the entire trip is now published. Currently, and I’m useless at deadlines, the plan is […]

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• Kerry, Meath and Donegal in bed together?
• Where in Ireland is Glasgow?
• Irish Scarecrow?
• Not Irish milk
• Pat Short’s Jumbo Irish Roll with lyrics […]

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A couple of photos I took in Powell Gardens of the butterfly that everybody likes, the Monarch.
You may recall, or not and not care, that […]

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