Happy 1st Birthday to Irish KC
One year ago today, Irish KC was launched, in the middle of the build up to St Patrick’s Day in Kansas City, with these profound words.
Other posts apparently older, aren’t. They’re simply due to me dealing with the limitations of Google’s old Blogger where Irish KC was reluctantly born due to a rush to meet that Paddy’s Day.
I’d tell you it’s been a fun year only then I’d get a phone call from my mother telling me that I’m not supposed to be having fun, much like my early days in Kansas City.
There are over 2,000 pages I’ve written on here yet it seems like only last May when we reached the 500th post.
The girls haven’t gone away you know, my brain is just fizzing around a lot lately, and it needs serenity to give voice to them gals. Incidentally they do have names, but I alone know them since they’ve never used them in a strip. Maybe I feel a competition coming on?
The first year has seen live blogging from Ireland, though not too much as I was too busy getting drunk off my face - it being a holiday and all - and the launch of my paintings of Ireland being offered for sale here, with those being sold so far reaching homes in five countries and eight US states.
The year 2006 for the Irish in Kansas City as seen through Irish KC was reviewed then so doesn’t need to be recounted here.
I think the things about Irish KC I’ve enjoyed the most in the first year have the feedback from people all over America, and in Ireland especially, as well as the people who are still talking to me in Kansas City.
The people that populate my sidebar I have a lot of respect for their writing and blogging skills. I will single out Tony and Sweary as the first people to blogroll me in KC and Ireland respectively. And I’m thinking of giving a prize at some stage to the top commenter on Irish KC. A special thank you to Primal Sneeze for currently holding that position.
In writing I’ve most enjoyed the stuff that appears in the Little Differences Between the US and Ireland, and the Frequently Asked Irish Questions, as well as the cartoons and conversations - both of which should pick up again soon.
The second year should see some major navigational changes - improvements I hope - as well as some significant new content and features. And there will be a lot more live blogging from ireland - because this will happen.
The rest of my Cycle Across America will be published, and blah, blah, blah, I go on too much.
Other Stuff About Irish KC:
• Top Ten Irish KC Traffic Peaks of 2006
• 2006: That was the Kansas City Irish Year that was
• Post #1,500 on Irish KC
Eolaí gan Fhéile:
Happy birthday to you
You live in Kansas City…
Hold on, that doesn’t rhyme at all!
Of course it rhymes, Sweary. It just doesn’t survive the translation from the original by J. Randulph Blogaire, the lamp-post poet of Overland Park:
“Happy blogday to me
I’m in the city
Of Kansas you see …”
It’s all relative. Like my aunt Maggie.
Anyway. Happy Blogday, Eolaí.
Happy Blogday, a Eolaí!
It was probably about this time last year that I found you via a comment of yours on Twenty’s, which I found via mention in Conn’s column i Lá faoina 2006 IBAs. My gain.
¡Viva na blaganna Gaelacha!