For anyone interested in why some of the things on Irish KC are here at all, you might find an answer in the sidebar History […]

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If you’re in St Louis this summer, because it’s only four hours from Kansas City, or because you want to visit what you think is […]

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Kansas City is in the news today. Even though there had been 26 homicides in KC this year up to this afternoon, it’s now that […]

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Grass
-Cut your grass for you sir?
-No thanks
-I’ll do a good job
-I’m sure you would, but the landlord always cuts it, it’s his grass, and that’s […]

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The Elders will be performing at Borders in the Kansas City’s Northland on Sunday, May 6, 2007.
Borders was where The Elders first released their current […]

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These are the business.
Craobh Rua, a trad band from Belfast who have been around for donkey’s years, play in Columbia, Missouri TONIGHT, Saturday April 28, […]

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In 1999, Time Magazine held an online poll to find the Person of the Century. Before the poll finished, an Irish man, a former supermarket […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Paddy O’Quigleys are opening two new pubs in the Kansas City metro area, one on the Missouri side and one on the Kansas side.
Joyce Smith […]

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So I’m out for a walk in between Kansas City storms. Me and the dog are about half an hour in, right in the middle […]

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Courtesy of the four major search engines - yes Google is not the only orange - here’s just a sampling of some of the questions […]

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A major charity event

Cannes 2006 Palme d’Or Winner
The Wind That Shakes The Barley
THE KANSAS CITY PREMIERE
With Special Guest Máirtín de Cógáin
Tivoli Theatre
May 10, 2007
A Benefit […]

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Customer service champion, the Irish airline RyanAir, is the inspiration for the US launch of SkyBus Airlines in the US. Kansas City is on the […]

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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 […]

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Reading reports of soccer matches here in Missouri is as foreign to me as reading reports of American sports.
However with some translation I can get […]

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Irish music group, The Hooligans will perform on South Avenue in downtown Springfield, Missouri, for First Friday Art Walk on May 4, 2007.
The event is […]

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Barbara O’Connor is a Jewish woman from Overland Park in Kansas. She is married to an Irish Catholic man.
The OP couple are featured in an […]

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For anybody wondering if I was out enjoying the very fine weather in Kansas City and that’s why things have been so quiet today here […]

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In Saturday’s sunshine I was standing in the back garden watching a couple of things for about five minutes, or two hours - it’s hard […]

Read: Things I’ll Miss About Kansas City #1 »