Celtic Thunder perform in Kansas City at the Sprint Center on Tuesday, November 18 2008 at 8pm.
The latest in a string of super-produced, -packaged and […]

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O’Malley’s Irish Pub in Weston, Missouri was featured by Nicole Mossburger on her Kansas City blog a few days ago.
Technically speaking Nicole’s blog is called […]

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There’s No One As Irish As Barack Obama, the song by the Irish Band Hardy Drew & the Nancy Boys, that I featured a couple […]

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John Spillane of Cork is on Balcony TV today helping them celebrate their 2,000,000th view.
Spillane is performing There Was A Man the 1st track from […]

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Sunday Short time.
The featured Irish short film today is a nice little fable called Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom (My Name Is You Ming). It’s […]

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You’ll remember the back story of Barack Obama’s Irish roots.
Well now I’m told that Limerick band,Hardy Drew and the Nancy Boys, have an internet smash […]

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Fans of the Irish musical Once and those planning to see its stars Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova perform in Kansas City on May 4, […]

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Sunday Short time.
I keep forgetting the days have names, and with it that I used to be in the habit of posting Irish film shorts […]

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Kansas City’s The Elders are back a while now from their 2008 tour of Ireland with fellow Celtic rockers Enter The Haggis.
So I thought I’d […]

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KMBC TV have posted a little 2 minute report of the main Kansas City St Patrick’s Day parade, with some familiar faces in among the […]

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Here’s a little break from the Kansas City St Patrick’s Day events announcements. It’s the truth about Irish Dancing.
So when you’re shaking your green beads […]

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What do Cher, Tom Jones, Elvis Costello’s Ex, Joe Dolan, and The Larks have in common?
They all are presented today in video on The Chancer. […]

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Since being one of the very 1st sites to announce Irish movie Once’s win at the Sundance Film Festival, through to its immense popularity in […]

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It’s been ages since we’ve done a Sunday Short, and Oscar Sunday is as good a day as any for an excuse to show another […]

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The Kansas City St. Patrick’s Day Parade Committee have named Lucky the Irish Pimp as the Grand Marshal for the 2008 Parade in downtown KC.
Unfortunately, […]

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Kennedy’s Bar & Grill of 75th Street in Waldo was featured a couple of days back on KMBC with talk of the plans for the […]

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Longer than a snippet, but not quite a song.
Here is a short video of The Elders performing over the weekend at the Pilgrim Chapel in […]

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Update: As Pete Maher notes below this event is now CANCELED
This is a big one Kansas City. John McDermott, the Scottish-born Irish tenor, is performing […]

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49 ABC News yesterday posted some European flavours from the Kansas City area.

U2 tribute band Rattle & Hum were videoed at Juls doing New Year’s […]

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As I head to the airport to return to Ireland, I can’t help but be aware of how long I’ve lived in America.
Which makes today […]

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