Happy 12th of July then.
It’s not my world, but if you’re of Scots-Irish stock, like much of rural Missouri, and much of rural everywhere […]

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Yesterday was my ninth 4th of July since moving to the US. And it was my first not to have a drink. I was just […]

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It being the 4th of July I’ve postponed the original posts I was on the verge of throwing up, and will post one or two […]

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I took the test.
It being that time of year, it seemed appropriate.
And even more so with my impending departure after over 8 years […]

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A year ago today I wrote this about Fathers’ Day.
Such is the annual nature of holidays that not much is different a year on.
And that’s […]

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Memorial Day Weekend in Kansas City. Some Irish events for you.
• Irish Award-winning film The Wind That Shakes The Barley is held over at the […]

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Do you remember Christmas when we talked about the lovely story concerning the Bishop of Southwark after an Irish party in England?
At the time it […]

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Yes it’s that time of the year again.
In America, that is. In Ireland that time of the year is a different time of the […]

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Courtesy of the four major search engines - yes Google is not the only orange - here’s just a sampling of some of the questions […]

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Being Irish and walking among American flagpoles with their flags at half-mast has me thinking of the dead.
You know the way we sing happy-clappy sing-a-longy […]

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The first time I didn’t fast on a Good Friday I was on a train in North Wales.
I didn’t know I wasn’t fasting; after my […]

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More than your neighbour, are you:
• Feeling a bit more connected to the earth?
• Living life as if it will go on long after death?
• […]

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As the western Christian world gears up to celebrating the most important week in the Christian calendar, by gorging on large chocolate eggs (where I’m […]

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If you’re reading this in America, and you have a mother in Ireland, well you may want to know that today is a day many […]

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I like groups. At school in Dublin the Brothers took us to see Lord of The Flies to show us that man was not meant […]

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Traditionally, at the very beginning of March, those who are very lucky get to see an Irish Panda.
In the 5th century a young St Patrick […]

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USA & Ireland Little Difference #20: Valentine’s Day
What’s wrong with America on Valentine’s Day, is what always reminds me of one of so many meetings […]

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In Centigrade right now, at half-one in the morning in Kansas City it is -13C with, I am told, a Real Feel of -23C.
I […]

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So it’s MLK Day here in the US of A. What does it mean? What happens?
Well I’m sure plenty of things happen somewhere, but to […]

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Okay boys and girls, a lot of people have been asking about Christmas here in Towers gan Fhéile, and about 2007 of all things. […]

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