Pat O’Neill, Grand Marshal of the 2016 Kansas City St Patrick’s Day parade, is on Nichols at Night talking about the history of the […]

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We covered The Archies when I went to the Gaeltacht. Thankfully Youtube wasn’t around, and wouldn’t be for another 25 years.
Coláiste Lurgan, in […]

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You can watch a 3-minute video on Browne’s Irish Market as featured on Fox4KC.
There’s Irish dancing, music by Mike O’Loughlin’s Irish Roots Cafe Band, and […]

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One Ireland. Two Irelands. I had asthma as a child. A relative of mine once beat an Englishman to a pulp.
On the week of the […]

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You may have seen the Irish comedian Barry Murphy in Kansas City. You may not.
It was 90-odd degrees; he was wearing a suit. Here’s […]

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Doing the rounds in Ireland these days is a clip from back when things were picking up, the last days of innocence in other words […]

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Just to let you know that sweeping the Irish nation this last week has been a band out of Cork and specifically their version of […]

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There was much excitement in Ireland yesterday as 3 Irish Film Board funded movies received Oscar nominations.
A total of 5 Academy Award nominations went to […]

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The 2nd Annual Irish Music Association Awards, those for the year 2009, took place on Wednesday gone, January 27, 2010, at O’Malley’s 1842 Irish Pub […]

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Liam Clancy passed away earlier today after a long illness. Perhaps the last of a golden age of Ireland’s folk singers, we’ve spoken of Liam […]

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This side of Christmas I’m going to feature a bunch of, em, stuff, Irish like, here in the main column of [Irish KC] while I […]

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Took me a while but I’ve added the link to DogTree’s website to the list of Kansas City Irish & Celtic bands.
DogTree are an acoustic […]

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TKC went to his 1st Irish Festival in Kansas City earlier this month and has come away a fan of the Makem and Spain Brothers.
I […]

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The initial videos that were uploaded are over on the Reactions to KC Irish Fest 2009 post, but now there are much more available and […]

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Old-time readers who don’t frequent my personal blog might be interested in the latest 30-second video of Dog-dog posted over on Bicyclistic, where I dragged […]

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Out with the old dance, and in with the new dance. For those of you who miss my little American dog now that she’s in […]

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The Irish Fireside blog have posted their 26th video from their Irish-American Road Trip, and this one is in Kansas City.
This one is mostly in […]

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The video on this post, which is important to me, has been re-enabled.
This is the song I said goodbye to Kansas City with, and the […]

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There’s a Kansas City Irish website that I’ve repeatedly failed to give the full attention it deserves.
It hasn’t been intentionally so, it’s just that […]

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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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