Every March I read the same rubbish.
No, the Irish were not slaves too.
No, the Irish didn’t have it as bad as Africans. Or worse.
It […]

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12 of the first 16 Kansas City police officers killed on duty were Irish or Irish-born.
In 1867 or so Dennis Malloy from County Clare […]

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On Saturday March 6, 2010 there is a Missouri Irish Brigade Encampment at the Irish Museum and Cultural Center (IMCC) in Kansas City’s Union Station […]

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Mike O’Laughlin made the Irish supersite for emigration and its disapora, GlobalIrish.ie, yesterday for Missouri Irish: The Original History of the Irish in Missouri being […]

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From Shane Hegarty’s book launching tomorrow, here’s 7 things about the Irish (and other foreigners).
And if the video doesn’t convert you, there was a large […]

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The Catholic Key has one of those interesting historical stories it frequently reports. This one is of the legend of a Kansas City family who […]

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We’ve talked a fair bit about the Irish Wilderness in Miisouri, and the Kansas City bishop who was earlier the Father Hogan from Ireland who […]

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While I’m picking on the papers, and the Kansas City Star in particular, I’ll continue.
AP writer Shawn Pogatchnik in his article marking U2’s current series […]

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This weekend, July 23-July 26, 2009, sees the most famous ship constructed in Ireland, Titanic, come to Kansas city. Kind of.
“Titanic: Treasures from the Deep” […]

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Today is an official holiday in Northern Ireland. Because it’s July 13th. And it’s Monday. Which means the 12th fell on a Sunday.
Commemorating the Battle […]

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There’s some wisdom on the Irish Famine being shared in the comments on Tony’s Kansas City.
You should be aware that the comments on TKC are […]

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Because of the associations of the RMS Titanic with Ireland (it was built in Belfast and it stopped in Cobh, then called Queenstown, in County […]

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Hunger, the film about the 1981 Hunger Strikes at the H-Blocks, gets a detailed, but negative, review from Loey Lockerby in the Kansas City Star
Rated […]

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Usually when people talk about the name Pendergast in Kansas City they’re talking about Tom, or Jim. Dr. Bill Worley in the Kansas City Tribune […]

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I read something incredible about the Irish in Kansas City today that I reckon is down one of 3 things;
1. It’s a typo
2. Kevin Costner […]

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Don Ignacio O’Brien, Ernesto Murphy and Miguel McCarty would all probably agree with a recent report in Kansas City:
“The foreigner most welcome to my country […]

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We’ve been to St Patrick’s Church before here on Irish KC, but as we approach the day that celebrates Ireland’s patron saint, there’s a nice […]

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On September 14 gone, at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church - what you may know as Redemptorist -next door to Cristo Rey High School, […]

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More of a Germans in Missouri story than an Irish in Missouri one, but it’s a story about drink so the Irish do make an […]

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They’re calling it a Fest now.
It’s the biggest day of the year for the tradition in Ireland that is represented by just as much space […]

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