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The artist also authors a site called American Hell

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Archive for “August, 2007”

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Small Paintings of Animals

Posted by: eolai on August 24th, 2007

Here’s a selection from a series of 40 very small paintings I did once upon a time in KC.
They are of animals, all about 2 […]

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Categorized as: 1-eolai, Animals, Art | 2 Comments »


Love Is All Around

Posted by: eolai on August 23rd, 2007

Well okay it’s not. But it is in the sidebar.
Linking love. The Missouri kind. To offset the love I’m about to dispense back in Ireland.
We’re […]

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Categorized as: blogs | 7 Comments »


Biggest Irish Festivals by Attendance

Posted by: eolai on August 23rd, 2007

You know when it looks like I’m not posting, and you think I’m not working?
Well chances are I’m updating dozens of posts for the […]

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Tours of Ireland and Missouri

Posted by: eolai on August 22nd, 2007

I have a lot of work done on a cycling website that I haven’t told you about. And I’m not telling you about it now […]

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Categorized as: Sport | 3 Comments »


Irish Language Course Begins in Kansas City

Posted by: eolai on August 22nd, 2007

A 10-week course in Gaeilge, which is Irish for Irish, the language that is, or Gaelic as you may know it, begins at Kansas City’s […]

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The Elders at GAIF 2007

Posted by: eolai on August 22nd, 2007

Here’s a fairly new video of Kansas City’s favorite Celtic rock band, The Elders.
It was taken at the 2007 Great American Irish Festival and is […]

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Categorized as: Elders, Enter The Haggis, Festivals, Video | No Comments »


Labor Day Weekend at the Irish Center in KC, MO

Posted by: eolai on August 22nd, 2007

Irish events are taking place at the Irish Museum and Cultural Center in Kansas City’s Union Station on both Saturday, September 1, 2007 and Sunday, […]

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Denmark nil, Ireland four.

Posted by: eolai on August 22nd, 2007

Do you remember me reminiscing about this Danish moment of Irish history?
Well revenge has been exacted.
Actually that’s rubbish. Friendlies are called friendlies for a reason. […]

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Categorized as: 1-eolai, Sport | 2 Comments »


Ireland & USA Little Differences #24: Pub Talk

Posted by: eolai on August 22nd, 2007

It didn’t take Bob Geldof to let me know that we talk nonsense as a nation.
But unlike in the US we do it in […]

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Paintings in and of Dublin

Posted by: eolai on August 21st, 2007

Today I was contacted from Ireland and offered an exhibition in Dublin.
That’s better than a poke in the eye by somebody with a smelly finger.
It’s […]

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Categorized as: 1-eolai, Art, Ireland | 6 Comments »


The Late Late Phil Lynott

Posted by: eolai on August 21st, 2007

Anyone keeping an eye on my Irish sKCraps, and reading every entry here on Irish KC obsessively, might be interested to know that Peter […]

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Nelly Don Fashion Show at Irish Cultural Center, KC, MO

Posted by: eolai on August 21st, 2007

Speaking of the Irish Museum and Cultural Center, there will be a Nelly Don Fashion Show on Saturday September 15, 2007 at 1pm in the […]

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I’m Not Ireland

Posted by: eolai on August 20th, 2007

In an attempt to find out if I’m the stereotype I think I am, I took the Country Quiz to see if it would proclaim […]

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Flannigan’s Right Hook in Union Station, KC, MO

Posted by: eolai on August 20th, 2007

Flannigan’s Right Hook have a gig listed for Kansas City’s Union Station on Saturday, September 1, 2007.
And that’s very interesting indeed, but I can’t tell […]

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Imminent

Posted by: eolai on August 20th, 2007

For those trying to establish the actual date of departure from KC of your Irish KC author, it’s not yet public due to so many […]

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Emerald Autumn: September Irish Music in Missouri

Posted by: eolai on August 20th, 2007

The Examiner in Eastern Jackson County reckons they have good news for those “who need an Irish fix before next year’s St. Patrick’s Day”
Irish music […]

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Gangs of Waterfall

Posted by: eolai on August 19th, 2007

In Waterfall in 1955 hurling was out. And rock ‘n’ roll was in.
Written and directed by the late Ronan Phelan, Gangs of Waterfall is a […]

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Categorized as: 1-eolai, Fuchsia Band, Movies, Sunday Shorts, Video | 2 Comments »


Frosty The Cavan Man

Posted by: eolai on August 19th, 2007

It’s not so much that I don’t have anything to say at the moment, but that I have too much to say.
But ignoring that, here’s […]

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Lovers in Transit on Wang Dang Doodle

Posted by: eolai on August 17th, 2007

Kansas City’s excellent Lovers In Transit get played and toasted on Irish music person extraordinaire B.P. Fallon’s Breakthru Radio show Wang Dang Doodle #16.
The first […]

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Categorized as: 1-eolai, BP Fallon, Horslips, Nostalgia, radio | 1 Comment »


My KC Neighborhood Luxuries

Posted by: eolai on August 17th, 2007

Here’s a couple of photos from my early morning walks in Kansas City.
In a racially divided city I live in a white neighbourhood.
The first […]

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    Love Is All Around

    Posted: on August 23rd, 2007

    Well okay it’s not. But it is in the sidebar.
    Linking love. The Missouri kind. To offset the love I’m about to dispense back in Ireland.
    We’re […]

    Biggest Irish Festivals by Attendance

    Posted: on August 23rd, 2007

    You know when it looks like I’m not posting, and you think I’m not working?
    Well chances are I’m updating dozens of posts for the […]

    Tours of Ireland and Missouri

    Posted: on August 22nd, 2007

    I have a lot of work done on a cycling website that I haven’t told you about. And I’m not telling you about it now […]

    Irish Language Course Begins in Kansas City

    Posted: on August 22nd, 2007

    A 10-week course in Gaeilge, which is Irish for Irish, the language that is, or Gaelic as you may know it, begins at Kansas City’s […]

    The Elders at GAIF 2007

    Posted: on August 22nd, 2007

    Here’s a fairly new video of Kansas City’s favorite Celtic rock band, The Elders.
    It was taken at the 2007 Great American Irish Festival and is […]

    Labor Day Weekend at the Irish Center in KC, MO

    Posted: on August 22nd, 2007

    Irish events are taking place at the Irish Museum and Cultural Center in Kansas City’s Union Station on both Saturday, September 1, 2007 and Sunday, […]

    Nelly Don Fashion Show at Irish Cultural Center, KC, MO

    Posted: on August 21st, 2007

    Speaking of the Irish Museum and Cultural Center, there will be a Nelly Don Fashion Show on Saturday September 15, 2007 at 1pm in the […]

    Flannigan’s Right Hook in Union Station, KC, MO

    Posted: on August 20th, 2007

    Flannigan’s Right Hook have a gig listed for Kansas City’s Union Station on Saturday, September 1, 2007.
    And that’s very interesting indeed, but I can’t tell […]

    Emerald Autumn: September Irish Music in Missouri

    Posted: on August 20th, 2007

    The Examiner in Eastern Jackson County reckons they have good news for those “who need an Irish fix before next year’s St. Patrick’s Day”
    Irish music […]

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