Where is Wei was created to document a year-long trip around the world.
And it all starts at Dublin, Ireland by way of Kansas City, […]

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When I was a kid I used to go with my mother to Moore Street for the week’s fruit and veg. And as I got […]

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Sunday Short time.
I keep forgetting the days have names, and with it that I used to be in the habit of posting Irish film shorts […]

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It’s been a MUDII day in Ireland.
Miasma.
Untenable.
Disquiet.
Implausible.
Inevitable.

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For those of you who like to count, specifically hours, this is just to let you know that once again Ireland is 6 hours ahead […]

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Kansas City’s The Elders are back a while now from their 2008 tour of Ireland with fellow Celtic rockers Enter The Haggis.
So I thought I’d […]

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Because it’s long, very long, I’m pointing you at a comment on Corned Beef & Cabbage.
Joyce, Pepys, and Middle-Irish, they’re all there - with […]

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Christopher Wilson had his words on his trip to Ireland published in the Kansas City Star yesterday.
In the Where I’ve Been series you are […]

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Speaking of whiskey (when talking about the Irish Whiskey Tasting), Anne Brockhoff in the Kansas City Star this week included among her recommendations for well-made […]

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From the beginning to the end of this article on our Taoiseach’s questionable financial affairs, we find that Bertie Ahern’s former secreatry Grainne Carruth, is […]

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This time every year in America, people asked me, What did the Easter Bunny bring you when you were a kid in Ireland?
And much less […]

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When I was a kid Tallaght was a village, the last place you went through on your way into the mountains.
When I grew up Tallaght […]

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From Cavan a Cavanaugh changed into a Cavenoid.
With ancestors all from Kansas. A Kansas that’s pretty much like Cavan.
And all that is good enough reason […]

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Homogenisation. Pasteurisation. Cold Flow. Extra Cold. Ice-Cold even. Ice cold?
There was a time, when if served a pint that seemed a bit cold, you and […]

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There is a presentation on the most famous of Irish illuminated manuscripts, the Book of Kells, by Joanna Carraway of Rockhurst University, this Sunday, March […]

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Kevin Myers, the much reviled commentator on life in Ireland uses the state of Kansas as a device for illustrating the moral state of modern […]

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The elders of Kansas City played here in Ireland in my hometown of Dublin on Monday night.
It was in Whelan’s, which is a great venue. […]

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Last night I took myself and my multiple identities to the Irish Blog Awards. Managing many versions of yourself is not so easy away from […]

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Will Ferrell was in Kansas recently promoting Semi-Pro.
The Lawrence Journal World carried the story.
And because he lives in a world of catchphrases and repeated lines, […]

Read: Will Ferrell’s Anchorman Huge in Ireland »

In case things don’t go any further, I’d like to say a couple of thank yous.
One is to Poetry Ireland/Éigse Éireann, and the other is […]

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