The Tossers are among a group of bands playing at the Record Bar in Kansas City on Thursday, August 9, 2007.
I don’t know anything about […]

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A lot of people in town have been asking me about The Frames lately.
This is because of the popularity of the Irish movie Once.
I was […]

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We haven’t done a Sunday Short for a while.
Here then is my favourite from the Dublin Stories series of films by NOVARAfilms. It’s episode 4 […]

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Two of the Saw Doctors‘ USA shows on their summer tour during August are FREE admission. Lewiston, NY on August 15, 2007 and Albany, NY […]

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Lord, won’t you give me the strength to be strong, and be true
Cos, Lord, when the devil gets into my head, I’m so blue
You knock […]

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Ballyvaughan Story is an award-winning Irish short animated documentary featuring a story from the War of Independence.
It’s a small story from 1921 in Ballyvaughan, which […]

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Crowded House play Kansas City, Missouri on Monday, August 20, 2007 at the Uptown Theatre.
Irish? Well, no, but let’s make some connections.
Australia and New Zealand […]

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Because I don’t have a television, the bits I do see (on the computer) tend to be the more dramatic moments rather than more thoughtful […]

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For anyone wondering why doing an interview with Damien Dempsey is something to make a bit of fuss about, here’s a selection of videos of […]

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The Saw Doctors were unable to travel to the West Coast of the USA in May, and so pulled out of the recent San Francisco […]

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This is one of those weekends where Irish ex-pats follow all sorts of sporting events in and concerning Ireland.
Yesterday Irish trainer Aidan O’Brien - the […]

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With apologies to anybody from Limerick, and to anybody who doesn’t care, Dublin comedian Andrew Maxwell HERE on the Guardian gives one of his 6 […]

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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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Here’s your Sunday Short film for you. How Derry Began.
It’s an 8-minute animated history of Derry City, starting in the Ice-Age when Derry was an […]

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Over the last year we’ve featured Ireland’s Balcony TV here on Irish KC quite a few times.
Well, to celebrate their first year Balcony TV […]

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I remember being furious with the FAI. Within 12 feet of where I sat, English boots and fists laid into Irish bodies.
It was 1991 and […]

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Cathal Dunne in a bad green suit played the Irish festival in Crown Center last year in Kansas City.
Back in 1979 he sang the song […]

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If you want to cheer Ireland on in the Eurovision Song Contest tomorrow, you can watch it live online.
If you’re not familiar with the […]

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It’s four in the morning and what’s more the dawning… oh no, wrong sentiment.
Well it is four in the morning, and I’m just in […]

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You may recall I told you about this song when talking of the songs we learned in school - and this would be in Ireland […]

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