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 […]

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Those of you who remember the great review the Wichita Eagle gave Seamus Heaney’s District and Circle a couple of months ago, might be particularly […]

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Not long before I arrived in Kansas City, seven years, eight months and four days ago, I went for walk in northern England. An eighty […]

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Not only Ireland with its Stock Exchange, Euro use, and direct trade with the rest of the world, but the US State of Kansas is […]

Read: The Tartan Tiger: Like Ireland and Like Kansas »

British genealogy site, Ancestry.co.uk, have made available passenger lists of over 100 million names from more than 100 American ports, in what is claimed to […]

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Twenty-four hours later and I’m still loving this headline.

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Steve Rose’s column where he explains why his Johnson County Sun is endorsing mostly Democratic candidates despite being a Republican paper, is being recommended to […]

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Once upon a time I was listening to Fiona Looney talk to Gerry Ryan on his RTE 2FM radio show, when she started equating certain […]

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In Ireland where same-sex unions are not legal despite both the Taoiseach and Tánaiste being in favour, the British embassy in Dublin is hosting civil […]

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Although many of the invited participants refused to have anything to do with the Observer’s vote for the best novel of the last twenty-five years, […]

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As ever, we like a list here at Irish KC, however lacking in authority it may be. We especially like looking at them to see […]

Read: Top Funeral Songs or Dirge for Today »

I don’t usually talk about Ireland’s ‘little people’, and I’m not starting now. Instead I want to talk about England’s little people, and this adorable […]

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As part of the 50th Anniversary celebrations of the UK charts (which are the main music charts Irish people listen/are subjected to), the UK Chart […]

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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 […]

Read: Irish Press Banned as Irish Independence Revoked »

You know, when I talk about things being filmed in Ireland, and you’re sitting in Missouri or Nebraska or somewhere in the US thinking it […]

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The first time I saw a gun in America was on the west coast. A marine in California proudly pulled this plastic case from under […]

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In 1978 deep down in her pocket Judy found 50p (p? what’s p?).
10 years earlier Irish money was pre-decimal so 10 bob is what […]

Read: Little Judy’s trying to watch “Top of the Pops” »

In a bizarre piece in the Post-Chronicle, Thomas E. Brewton likens the issue that immigration of Mexican illegals has become for the US today, with […]

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Bloomsday, June 16, 1904 - the date of the setting of Ulysses, and celebrated for about seventy years - might be getting a new holiday […]

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Much more important to Northen Irish football than losing to Romania in the Midwest, is FIFA’s announcement that to play for Northern Ireland you must […]

Read: Irish and British Passports: FIFA Go Mad »