The Irish Government recently launched the Certificate of Irish Heritage, an official recognition by the Irish Government of those who are proud of their Irish […]

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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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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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People who don’t understand Twitter, or don’t want to, often dismiss it as little more than an opportunity to utter inanities. It is that […]

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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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One of the original participants in the first Kansas City St Patrick’s Day parade with Mike Murphy all those years ago, John Joseph ‘Jack’ Kitchin, […]

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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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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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The retiring president is Irish, Catholic and spiritual.
And so it’s providential design that he gives credit to, and for which he expresses eternal gratitude […]

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There’s a nice story in the Daily Courier of Prescott, Arizona about an Irish immigrant and longtime KC resident who after dying in Arizona almost […]

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Tony’s Kansas City yesterday featured an old political cartoon from Joseph Keppler’s Puck concerning Irish immigrants in America in the late 19th Century.
Called “Uncle Sam’s […]

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I’ve been mulling over a Lewis W. Diuguid article in the Kansas City Star from a couple of days back.
The article is about how the […]

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In America I wore two items of footwear. Trekking boots in deepest winter, and maybe a couple of months either side, and in summer sandals.
Sometimes […]

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Update on moving to Ireland from America.
The Irish Customs, thanks to the Gardaí, now believes I am really here and the container of my personal […]

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For anyboby keeping track of what I may be up to - which is an unhealthy number of you - here’s the latest state of […]

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I knew this was coming of course but still, your first time is special.
It being only five minutes since I’m back living in Ireland I’m […]

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Am off to push more paperwork around. My boxes of personal effects arrived in Dublin from Kansas City yesterday.
But I’m still working on getting them […]

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There’s a review by Brad Tyler of Joe Bageant’s book on America’s class war, Deerhunting With Jesus, in the Houston Chronicle
The general gist is that […]

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When I left Ireland for Kansas City in 1999, I brought 32 boxes, a suitcase and a bicycle.
And 2 extra large brown soda breads straight […]

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Here’s a little something my brother sent me a couple of weeks ago.
It’s an old article from The Onion of a man who is very […]

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