Here’s a nice article in the Columbia Missourian on Brian Hart.
We’ve talked about Brian Hart’s sean nós singing before of course, and over in […]

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July 25th 2007 is the 130th anniversary of the Shamokin Uprising, when railroad workers and miners joined the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, America’s first […]

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According to a report in the Kansas City Star, some St. Charles School eighth-grade students wrote essays that won contests during the school year.
Although the […]

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A lot of people continue to ask me about the music from the Irish film Once.
If you don’t like The Frames then I imagine […]

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So I bumped into a new Johnny O’Quigley’s Irish Pub. But it’s one for your holidays, your vacation.
Because it’s in Panama City. Panama City, […]

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There’s a lot of mail comes here to Irish KC, and the way I have things set up I am not the most efficient at […]

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Like the rest of the US, the midwest has its share of U2 tribute bands, but based in Kansas City and billing itself as the […]

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Duffel Coat. A short film by Alex Gill.
It’s Sunday so here’s your Sunday Short, the irregular posting I do of Irish short films.
Duffel Coat stars […]

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Out of Ireland, the PBS TV show produced and hosted by Dublin born journalist Patricia O’Reilly, will be showing some clips from the The Elders […]

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Here’s an interesting slice of a documentary on The Clancy Brothers.
It features Liam Clancy talking about playing in New York’s village back in the times […]

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Just to note that things are not as quiet as they might appear in blogland.
I’ve had a misbehaving computer for a week now, crawling at […]

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It’s the weekend so here’s a random Irish memory.
Belle of Belfast City and before it Can’t Help Falling in Love were the 2 singles I […]

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The Lucky Charms are having a Free Flying Monkey tasting on Thursday, July 26th 2007 at Marfield’s Irish Pub in Leavenworth, Kansas.
Did you catch that? […]

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The Elders are playing at the Beaumont Club in Kansas City’s Westport, TONIGHT, Friday 20 July, 2007.
This is a benefit concert for Notre Dame de […]

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On Saturday July 21, 2007 - tomorrow - Eddie Delahunt performs at his own Cafe & at 7pm.
Joining Eddie, as was the case for the […]

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Speaking of Horslips and Dearg Doom, the track does of course come from the seminal Celtic Rock concept album The Táin.
The story of The Táin […]

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Barry’s Tea. More than Bewley’s Tea or Lyons Tea, Barry’s is the tea I am asked about in Kansas City the most.
Sometimes by email here […]

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Juan and Javier are the boys with the bus, and Eddie told them to expect some slagging.
This is the Irish Bus to O’Malley’s of Weston […]

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In this city that boasts more fountains than Rome (or everywhere else but), every morning shortly after sunrise I watch a couple of men advance […]

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Postcards. A list.
It’s an exercise in documentation and a snapshot of where I might be right now, or more to the point where people I […]

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