I’ve been listening to Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh.
The only problem with that is that it’s impossible to stop.
There’s a deep joy in the Dublin fiddler’s tunes […]

Read: Saturday Somebody: Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh »

A couple of weeks back, part-time Kansas City resident, Irish performer Máirtín de Cógáin sent me a link about somebody we’d been talking about on […]

Read: May Fame in April »

A major Irish traditional music event for Kansas City.
You know when you think you’ve done something but you can’t find it anywhere?
Here’s what I apparently […]

Read: Liz Carroll and John Doyle: Irish Trad Music in KC, MO »

Feeling nostalgic and completely inappropriate, I’m giving you Mr John Lennon from his album - well okay, his and Yoko’s album - Some Time in […]

Read: John Lennon: “The Luck of The Irish” »

Something I haven’t noticed a tendency for here in Kansas City is playfulness with language. Compared with what I was used to in Ireland, that […]

Read: Irish Waffle »

Irish major entertainment blog Blogorrah today gave the heads up on The Police performing at Dublin’s Croke Park in October this year.
Maybe I’ve forgotten, but […]

Read: The Garda Band at Croker »

I love this video.
Kansas City’s Happy-in-Bag the other day was lamenting the lack of interest in boxing here in the US these days, and how […]

Read: Jack Doyle: Video of the Gorgeous Gael »

The entry for one of the questions I am asked most frequently in Kansas City, FAIQ #8: What’s Your Favourite Irish Song? has had the […]

Read: Video of Favourite Irish Song »

I think I gave the impression that the last time Damien Rice came to the KC area - actually Lawrence, Kansas - the best thing […]

Read: Lisa Hannigan not for KC »

Daniel O’Donnell is coming to Kansas City. And that’s not the only place in Missouri Daniel is playing.
I’ve already used up the old Daniel O’Donnell […]

Read: Daniel O’Donnell in Kansas City and Missouri »

Máirtín de Cógáin, part-time KC resident from West Cork, is on Ireland’s Balcony TV, the mini-TV station which you’ve seen a lot of on Irish […]

Read: Máirtín de Cógáin on Balcony TV »

Such is my world that I spend a lot of time on Irish sites and on marketing sites (and tech sites and art sites, and […]

Read: Persuaders on Podcasting »

• St Patrick’s Day lingerie
• Not how we drew maps of Ireland at school
• 40 Megalithic Yards squared? An Irish Acre. And it’s smaller than […]

Read: Irish Funky Links #3 »

In summer of 1992, shortly after emaciated men appeared behind wires, I cycled into a Serbia under international embargo. Western Romania had proved difficult alone […]

Read: Missing Ireland via Sweden and Barcelona »

On May 19 a group of venues on the Plaza will play host to the new Kansas City Literary Festival, and one of them will […]

Read: Malachy McCourt for Kansas City Literary Festival »

It being Oscar Sunday. let’s look forward a few hours. While Peter OToole is the most obviously Irish chance for an Oscar, my tip for […]

Read: Tenuous Irish-Related Tip for Oscars »

We haven’t done a Sunday Short Film for a while. Here’s a nicely made five-minute documentary on Dublin’s famous chipper Leo Burdock’s titled Crispy Bits […]

Read: Sunday Short: Leo Burdock’s »

Redmum shows you what Irish Telly is like and what a telly in Ireland is like.
In advance of the Irish Blog Awards, here’s a little […]

Read: Irish Bloggers on Irish TV »

Been adding a few videos into appropriate places on Irish KC.
There’s two videos for the David Munnelly Band, a new one for The Elders at […]

Read: New Videos on Irish KC »

Shane from Dublin’s The Pale dropped me a note saying nice things about Irish KC, which seems only fair considering my role in The Pale’s […]

Read: The Pale: Two Videos »