Here’s a little something for fans of Kansas City’s Celtic Rock Band The Elders.
Secrets* from Kansas City were Brent Hoad and Norm Dahlor, who are […]

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Q. What is it like to drive on the left-hand side of the road?
A. I hate cars. Everything about them. I couldn’t even tell you […]

Read: FAIQ #20: What’s it like driving on the left-hand side? »

By popular demand, here is a second snippet of a story of drunken fortitude in one Irishman’s quest to travel directly from a Christmas work […]

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If you come from a country which celebrates Christmas over the Twelve Days, then to enjoy Christmas in the US you need to learn to […]

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Dublin’s Balcony TV is great for keeping an eye on unsigned and up and coming Irish acts, though it also throws the odd establisher performer […]

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Q. What’s With You Irish And All This Guilt Stuff?
A. I like guilt. And I think it gets a bad rap.
People who go around […]

Read: FAIQ #18: What’s With You Irish And All This Guilt Stuff? »

Q. You Travel By Train In Ireland, Don’t You?
A. We didn’t have a car when I was growing up. One appeared when I was around […]

Read: FAIQ #22: You Travel By Train In Ireland, Don’t You? »

A long time ago, when I was living in Liverpool, new pint glasses were brought out. Imperial pint glasses of course, this being the empire […]

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If you’re Irish and like horses racing you’re supposed to prefer National Hunt to the Flat. In fact you’re not supposed to really like the […]

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It is twenty to five on a Saturday. Rupert Murdoch has yet to invent English football, and Al Gore has not yet invented the Internet. […]

Read: Reason to Leave Ireland #162 »

Trup Trup a Chapaillín - Or, Giddy Up There Pony. The first song I learned at school, but being aged four, and it being a […]

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As my own review of the 2006 KC Irish Fest remains an unfinished unpublished monster, here’s something shorter on former years while I try and […]

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Walking the streets of Dublin always brings back memories of the early days in Kansas City. I bought a pair of socks today, and it […]

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The recent Chris Moyles Bob Geldof thing reminded me of when I worked in England and my English boss - who was about to go […]

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In the mid 1980s I was responsible for auditing the Irish Singles Charts prior to an overhaul of the system. The final calculation of chart […]

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On the Official English FA website the Irish flag is represented by an oversized McDonalds logo rather than the Irish Tricolour. No idea why - […]

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Talking about Horslips and Dearg Doom, here is Horslips, talking about Dearg Doom, including the Italia ‘90 re-working.
And below it is a straight performance of […]

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If legalizing the illegal Irish in Kansas City and beyond is your cup of tea, you might want to support the CD No Paddy Left […]

Read: No Paddy Left Behind: Make it Work »

Speaking of football, former Kansas City Wizard, Scotland’s Mo Johnston, was sacked as coach of the New York Red Bulls last Tuesday.
Having watched Johnston play […]

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Let’s revisit Dublin in 1979. It’s a kind of love story.
Take a Subbuteo pitch. Turn the green cloth over and paint the word “Ireland” on […]

Read: Ireland, Argentina and Germany »