Annie Simmermon in the University Daily Kansan found it scary deciding to go abroad but decided that she needed to know more than Kansas. […]

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Sunday Short time.
The featured Irish short film today is a nice little fable called Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom (My Name Is You Ming). It’s […]

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In a brave and ambitious move, the Kansas City Gaelic Football Club has announced the establishment of an Irish language circle.
The aim of the […]

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I have a friend who is a writer, and her episode of Ros na Rún, the Irish language soap, is on tonight. Thing is […]

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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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By far the word I have most been asked the Irish for in the 8-plus years I’ve lived in Kansas City, is “Grandmother”.
In Irish pubs, […]

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A wine with an Irish name has been named by Kansas City’s Present magazine as the wine that “may be the best wine dollar for […]

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A few days ago my brother in Ireland sent me an article from the Irish Times.
It was by Kate Holmquist about a new book making […]

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This autumn you’ll get your chance to spot all the dodgy bits of Irish you see around town, and maybe write your own.
As alluded to […]

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My sources tell me that Irish language classes are under consideration for Kansas City’s Irish Museum & Cultural Center (IMCC).
The IMCC is based in Union […]

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In my post on Fun in America and elsewhere I’ve referred to ‘Craic’ being an English term that was then Gaelicized, and Conor has said […]

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Most Irish people have met several people in the US who are unaware that Irish people speak English. Funnily enough that impression is rarely changed […]

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Saying ‘Happy New Year’ in Irish? Well, it’s not rigid; there are many different ways to wish somebody to have a year ahead that might […]

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We’ve mentioned before that Irish KC is not a continuous narrative, but a ball of wool - Irish of course - you’d be mad to […]

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It’s the day before Halloween, or as I call it, Halloweeneen, and how to pronounce Samhain, the Irish for Hallowe’en, keeps popping up.
If the English […]

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Americans tend to call it ‘Gaelic’. Irish people call it ‘Irish’, or Gaeilge - which is the Irish for ‘Irish’ (language, that is). Or the […]

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So you’re standing in Bridget’s dining room holding a box containing her fiancé’s head.
The damp cardboard gives way and Otto’s head falls out making […]

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Bridget loves you, you’re sure. But she’s getting married to Otto. In eighteen days. You’ve never met Otto, but from his photograph in uniform he […]

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When last we were learning the Irish language, Bridget was with somebody who she possibly should not have been with, it was raining outside, and […]

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Everybody’s Irish ancestors are from Cork. Okay not everybody’s. If your ancestors are not from Cork, then they are from Mayo.
If you don’t believe […]

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