As I did for 2006, here’s the year 2007 as it unfolded on Irish KC.
However this time it’s the more personal slice of the blog […]

Read: 2007: That Was The Irish KC Year That Was »

After 6 days of Guinness and 5 of turkey, I have a need to finally go outside.
I hear it’s cold out there, in that […]

Read: Off To Town. Catch Ya Later »

The Winter Storm 2008 Pipes & Drums Concert takes place on Saturday, January 12, 2008 at 7:15 pm at the Community Christian Church in Kansas […]

Read: Winter Storm 2008 : The Pipes & Drums Concert »

Cork’s Máirtín de Cógáin and the band he performs in The Fuchsia Band, have both won awards on the Celtic music radio show, No Celtic […]

Read: Mairtin de Cogain and The Fuchsia Band Win Radio Awards »

Thanks to The Elders, Kansas City gets to see Millish play in Kansas City, Missouri in 2008.
Millish are down as special guests of The Elders […]

Read: Millish in Kansas City in 2008 »

A few gaps in the Irish Events calendar have been filled in with regard especially to O’Malleys 1842 Irish Pub in Weston, Missouri.
Irish pub rock […]

Read: Irish Music at O’Malley’s of Weston, MO in January 2008 »

Present Magazine, Kansas City’s online magazine, brought out their Top 10 lists today. I think they do a nice job of just presenting the various […]

Read: Present Magazine’s Top 10 Lists for Kansas City »

About a dozen blogs have been added to my Irish blogroll.
This should more accurately reflect blogs I’ve been reading regularly and intermittently through 2007.
I’ve […]

Read: Irish Blog Additions »

The Step Crew, or more correctly, the StepCrew, are the new international step dancing act that blends traditional Irish dancing with Ottawa Valley step dancing […]

Read: The Step Crew in Overland Park, KS »

The 2008 MVFS Metro Artists Concert is a Scottish Legacy Night focusing on the Scottish/Cape Breton wing of the Celtic music tradition.
Hazel Whyte, the Scottish […]

Read: Metro Artists Concert a Scottish Legacy Night »

Who would have thought that Joe Dolan would be knocked off the news headlines by a man in Rawalpindi?
And this raises the stakes in the […]

Read: More Important Things. And More and More. »

School night or not, St. Stephen’s Night or not, it is Wednesday in Kansas City tonight.
And that means - because I checked - that you […]

Read: Live Irish Music on St Stephen’s Night in KC, MO »

Derby clung on gamely like my mother-in-law pulling a Christmas cracker.
So said the reporter describing an almost draw on this very sporting of days.
You […]

Read: Happy St Stephen’s Day »

From Dublin airport today I managed to squeeze in a Christmas Eve stroll around town on my way to the family home.
Dublin was vibrant as […]

Read: Peace »

Home.
Again.
As I suspected, Christmas Eve in Dublin Airport post-Tiger is a very different place than it was in the ’80s. Then you had the […]

Read: Christmas Eve Then and Now: Dublin Airport »

If it’s now past Christmas Eve in your Time Zone, then check out all manner of good Christmas goodness.
Meanwhile if you go to Eddie Delahunt’s […]

Read: Delahunt’s Coffee Shop Open Christmas Eve »

A snapshot of 2007 on Irish KC by way of the 1st line of the 1st post of each month.
All the cool kids are doing […]

Read: 1st Lines of 1st Posts: 2007 by Months »

Here’s a question I was asked last night.
-Would you like Waggle Dance, Bishop’s Finger, or Guinness?
Can you guess what I answered?
I’m out of touch with […]

Read: What Would You Like To Drink? »

Here’s what I know about a lot of Irish and Celtic music that touches Kansas City and the Midwest in some form or other.
Technically […]

Read: Music Round Up - December »

A place is needed so people can easily reference stories of my drunken attempt to return to Ireland one Christmas, and some nostalgic and cultural […]

Read: The Christmas Links »