Are you an Irish citizen born in Ireland, but living here in Kansas City or elsewhere in the US? Well if you’re planning your 100th […]

Read: Be Irish (& old) and receive over $3,000 »

Are you a weak, pathetic booze-hound who despises every detail of your hellish, pub-bound existence? Then you’re clearly not Irish.
Sam Delaney explores the stereotype […]

Read: Something Irish for the Weekend? »

Are you looking for:
The Children for Peace in Ireland fundraiser
Gig on June 3? click here
The Children for Peace in Ireland 7th Annual Auction takes place […]

Read: Children for Peace in Ireland »

Being ignorant of developments in Irish choral music in the early 1990s I was thinking I needed a severe scolding on the matter, ideally by […]

Read: Irish Choral Music & Celtic Underpants »

My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose Have you ever listened to that? Finbar Furey, of the Furey Brothers, does a great version, mainly […]

Read: Getting Away From Loud Pop Music & Motor Cars »

Having a Pint
Speaking of Dublin Pubs and all:
-One of these days I’m going to miss getting me hole through having a pint
-One of these days […]

Read: Irish Conversation in a Dublin Pub #1 »

The Wichita Eagle in Kansas carries a report on the changing make-up of the Catholic Church in America, and worldwide.
At a time when priesthood ranks […]

Read: Vietnamese the New Irish »

I drink in Kansas City.
And it doesn’t matter anymore. When I go home to Dublin every year - for five weeks last autumn for example […]

Read: FAIQ #6 Where Do You Drink in Dublin? »

Enter The Haggis‘ new CD, Soapbox Heroes will be available off-stage in late May, and available in stores and online July 18 (updated) 2006. […]

Read: Enter the Haggis new CD, Soapbox Heroes »

Having caught the Irish Fest bug in Kansas City last year, the Wild Clover Band have announced that they are part of the Sioux Falls […]

Read: Wild Clover Band at Sioux Falls Irish Fest »

The big Irish gig TONIGHT is The Elders on their return to an early haunt when they play Paddy O’Quigley’s at 119th & Roe in […]

Read: Friday Irish Music in Kansas City Area »

Turlach Boylan has moved to Kansas City and is available to teach music. Turlach will teach flute, penny whistle and banjo.
An All-Ireland […]

Read: Learn to play Irish Music from Turlach Boylan »

Possibly less kind than the Guardian’s words on Michael Flatley’s Celtic Tiger are today’s from another British institution, The Telegraph, reviewing last week’s show at […]

Read: Irishness to Oirishness: The Flatley Dance »

Roldy, the Kansas City-based English documentary film maker, throws in his tuppence worth on the current immigration debate in the US.
As a fairly recent immigrant […]

Read: Immigration: Illegality, Security or Race »

Looking for Milwaukee Irish Fest 2007?
The Milwaukee Irish Fest 2006 entertainers list is updated frequently.
It now includes: The Bridies • Danny Doyle • Dave Rowe […]

Read: Milwaukee Irish Fest »

So you’re wondering how Luka Bloom’s US tour is going? Luka has just played Arizona, and says the tour is going great. In Bloom’s longest […]

Read: Luka Bloom: Not Just an Irish Folk Singer »

Oscar Wilde, Irish anniversaries, Samuel Beckett, socialism, William Shakespeare, Irish art, Prime Ministers, and fashion, are some of the subjects you’ve seen on Irish KC […]

Read: Prime Minister Opens Window »

In my closet I should have?
A great Irish knit sweater,
says Robert Verdi, host of TV’s Fashion Police, who will appear from 2-4pm Saturday, at […]

Read: Robert Verdi at The Legends in Kansas »

Speaking of Irish poets and dandies, here’s a couple who are doing not bad, peachy, corking:
Irish-American poet and raiser of Irish donkeys, Thomas Lynch, is […]

Read: Irish Poets in the US »

Kansas’ own Fred Phelps, a very funny man, if not quite as funny as, say, Irish dandy Oscar Wilde, is in the news for having […]

Read: Irish Dandies Disliked in Kansas »