Irish Politics. One Day. Two Links.
Posted by: eolai on March 26th, 2007
In 1985 not a day in the whole year went by without me thinking of what was happening in South Africa. That was probably due […]
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Cole Camp, MO Irish / Celtic Festival
Posted by: eolai on March 26th, 2007
Cole Camp, Missouri, where Benton County’s Ozarks and prairies meet, is having its 4th Irish / Celtic Festival this coming weekend, Saturday, March 31, 2007
Refreshingly […]
Hillbillies, Rednecks and Professional Irishmen
Posted by: eolai on March 26th, 2007
Tom McNamee in the Chicago Sun-Times has been responding to criticism of criticism, such as:
Please, in the future refrain from identifying yourself as Irish. You […]
Irish Parental Advice
Posted by: eolai on March 26th, 2007
Nostalgia time. And a list.
Ten pieces of prime advice from an Irish childhood.
Universal themes I suspect.
All in all, as a child it was a […]
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Bertie Ahern on the North
Posted by: eolai on March 25th, 2007
Another day for Irish politics. Another deadline.
Let’s have a quick look through the progress over the last eight years from one person’s viewpoint - An […]
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Elders Record Bar Photos
Posted by: eolai on March 25th, 2007
You know the way The Elders are playing two dates at Kansas City’s Record Bar on the weekend of April 13 and 14 (with Flannigan’s […]
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The Phrase ‘Making Strange’
Posted by: eolai on March 25th, 2007
Here’s an article from the Marshall-Democrat News which seems to believe that the phrase “to make strange” as applied to children particularly, is unique to […]
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Their Hooligans Have Nothing On Our Hooligans
Posted by: eolai on March 25th, 2007
Here’s an article in Missouri that really irked me in the last week, for its opening line:
English soccer has nothing on American high school basketball […]
Big Plain Concerts in Lenexa, Kansas
Posted by: eolai on March 25th, 2007
Irish man Turlach Boylan from Derry has a new site up for Big Plain Concerts, the acoustic music gigs himself and Katherine host in Lenexa, […]
Free Irish Event Reminder
Posted by: eolai on March 25th, 2007
A quick reminder that the reading by the Irish poet Desmond Egan at Rockhurst’s Mabee Theatre is today, Sunday, March 25, 2007 at 2pm, and […]
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Eight Years in Kansas City, MO
Posted by: eolai on March 24th, 2007
For anybody counting, though that’s rude, it’s exactly eight years ago today that I moved from Ireland to Kansas City, Missouri.
I have nothing else […]
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Watching Ireland Play Wales in KC
Posted by: eolai on March 24th, 2007
Ah yes, the practicalities of living in a city not in your own country.
Excuse my silence Kansas City. I am trying to watch Ireland live […]
‘Lord of the Dance’ in Missouri
Posted by: eolai on March 23rd, 2007
Michael Flately’s Lord of the Celtic Bondage comes back to Missouri on Wednesday, April 11, 2007, for a single performance at the Fabulous Fox Theatre […]
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Irish Events Updates
Posted by: eolai on March 23rd, 2007
Lots of updates are going in place on the Kansas City Irish Events Calendar.
Some of the bigger events are not on there at the […]
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Máirtín de Cógáin on Balcony TV
Posted by: eolai on March 23rd, 2007
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 […]
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Last Weekend for Titanic Exhibit in Kansas
Posted by: eolai on March 23rd, 2007
We’re talking a traveling exhibit of the Irish-built ship here, not the permanent musuem housed in the half-scale replica ship in Branson, Missouri. Though like […]
American Hell
Posted by: eolai on March 23rd, 2007
From the same place that Irish Conversations and the cartoon I call the Hairdressers Guide to Information Technology, come from, yesterday I launched American Hell
It […]
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Kansas City Pickings
Posted by: eolai on March 22nd, 2007
Here’s something I saw in Kansas City that I’ve never seen in Ireland. It may well happen there too, but in KC is the only […]
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Dropkick Murphys in KC Way Better Than Ninja Turtles
Posted by: eolai on March 22nd, 2007
Joel Reichenberger, sports editor of The De Soto Explorer, has a piece today on a rare attendance at a gig for him, the Dropkick Murphys […]
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Nelly Don Movie on Local Kansas City TV
Posted by: eolai on March 22nd, 2007
Nelly Don: A Stitch in Time, the movie about one of America’s first female millionaires, Irish-American Nelly Don, is on television in Kansas City tonight, […]
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