Apart from being Halloween today, it’s also plain old Wednesday here in Ireland. And that means Coronation Street.
But because of the time difference between this […]

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So it’s Halloween today.
This means it’s a day for America to throw around more badly spelled examples of the Irish language as it acknowledges Ireland’s […]

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While my dog waits for an entry visa, through the magic of 21st century technology we’ve been enjoying long political arguments and indeed some entertainment […]

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Oh, America, I forgot to tell you - it’s a holiday today in Ireland. The Dublin Marathon finished a while ago with its fastest winning […]

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In my teens in Dublin Barney’s or the Pierott Club, before it was converted into a superpub, were my amusement haunts.
Or if I wanted to […]

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There’s more on the Irish play currently showing at the Unicorn, in the KC Community News.
We’re talking award-winning Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore again.
I […]

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Mangiare Theatre Company in Ireland is currently holding a 3-day workshop at KU culminating in a performance of Michael West’s “A Play On Two Chairs” […]

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OK. Yes.
Personal effects from Kansas City have now been delivered, unloaded, and put into storage in Dublin where I won’t be seeing them again […]

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The scheduled performance by tenor John McDermott at the KC music Hall this coming Saturday - October 27, 2007 - has been canceled.
Low ticket sales […]

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Due to the Fall break at Benedictine College there is no session at the college in Atchison tonight.
And that is why you won’t see it […]

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Eddie Delahunt sent a message of thanks yesterday to everybody who made the 4th Annual Pooka Party at Harling’s a great success.
Over $1,500 was […]

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So I was looking at the couch the other day and I noticed my sister wasn’t sitting on it.
Usually she appears there from time […]

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Longer than a snippet, but not quite a song.
Here is a short video of The Elders performing over the weekend at the Pilgrim Chapel in […]

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Update: As Pete Maher notes below this event is now CANCELED
This is a big one Kansas City. John McDermott, the Scottish-born Irish tenor, is performing […]

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We’ve talked about Identigen before. And again.
Well the Irish biotech firm is in the news again, specifically in the Lawrence Journal-World for its plans […]

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Robert Trussel of the Kansas City Star has more to say on the Irish play, Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore which started its run […]

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In America I wore two items of footwear. Trekking boots in deepest winter, and maybe a couple of months either side, and in summer sandals.
Sometimes […]

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Distracted by the move to Ireland from Kansas City I forgot about giving away the Ardal O’Hanlon document.
A reminder that if you want this […]

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A reminder of a big weekend in Kansas City for The Elders.
As part of the Midwest meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS) […]

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Eddie Delahunt, Brett Gibson, Gabriel Reyes and John Morris are performing on Saturday November 3, 2007 at Walsh’s Corner Cocktails.
Walsh’s - in the strip […]

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