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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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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Comment of the Week on Irish KC is a greater honour than you might think - because it’s not awarded every week.
In fact I can’t […]

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There’s an interesting report on Bloomberg looking at the impact of the failure of the recent immigration bill to pass.
English-speaking (which includes the Irish), […]

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Here’s something I forgot to mention on my list of homesick cures for the Irish in America.
It’s actually the one I do the most. Not […]

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The Morgue File in Saturday’s Crime Scene KC blog had some great photos of that celebrated Irish-American Tom Pendergast.
They include the courtroom huddle during sentencing […]

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Mike O’Laughlin of Kansas City’s Irish Roots Cafe let me know that he has now posted the first weekly episode of Missouri Irish for your […]

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For any Irish who may be homesick in America, though it may well apply to Irish emigrants in other parts of the world, here’s a […]

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The Washington Post is a bit behind on the news, but it does contain more reaction to the Irish roots of Barack Obama recently uncovered […]

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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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Tom McNamee in the Chicago Sun-Times has been responding to criticism of criticism, such as:
Please, in the future refrain from identifying yourself as Irish. You […]

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