Irish Writer’s Faith Healer at the Unicorn Theatre
Posted by: eolai on May 12th, 2008
There’s still a week left of the current run of Brian Friel’s “Faith Healer” at the Unicorn.
Told in 4 monologues, “Faith Healer” tells a series […]
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Corned Beef: Long Comment Alert
Posted by: eolai on March 29th, 2008
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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Irish Poet Paul Muldoon in Lawrence, KS
Posted by: eolai on February 21st, 2008
On Wednesday, February 27, 2008 Paul Muldoon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Irish poet, gives a lecture in the Humanities series called The Eternity of the Poem […]
Irish Violence and Comedy in Kansas City
Posted by: eolai on October 26th, 2007
There’s more on the Irish play currently showing at the Unicorn, in the KC Community News.
We’re talking award-winning Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore again.
I […]
Irish Theatre Mangiare in University of Kansas
Posted by: eolai on October 25th, 2007
Mangiare Theatre Company in Ireland is currently holding a 3-day workshop at KU culminating in a performance of Michael West’s “A Play On Two Chairs” […]
‘Oh, the blood, the blood!’ But it’s really funny.
Posted by: eolai on October 21st, 2007
Robert Trussel of the Kansas City Star has more to say on the Irish play, Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore which started its run […]
Is This About Sex?
Posted by: eolai on October 8th, 2007
I went to a play last week. In the Dublin Theatre Festival.
Is This About Sex?
Not really. But not not really either.
Using sexual manners and […]
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Kansas Actor Kip Niven in Irish Play at KU
Posted by: eolai on October 7th, 2007
Kip Niven, who I mentioned is a special guest star in the Irish play Translations by Brian Friel, is featured in the Lawrence Journal-World
A Prairie […]
Brian Friel’s Translations
Posted by: eolai on September 29th, 2007
The University of Kansas Department of Theatre and Film and University Theatre is presenting a production of Brian Friel’s Irish play Translations at 7:30pm on […]
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The Midwest American Conference of Irish Studies 2007
Posted by: eolai on September 4th, 2007
Voices and Visions: Ireland Across Disciplines
The 2007 Midwest ACIS Conference takes place on 18-20 October 2007 at University of Missouri, Kansas City
The American […]
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Festival Might Expand To A Week Long in 2008
Posted by: eolai on September 3rd, 2007
A report in the Kansas City Star over the weekend says that prompted by decreasing attendance figures 2008 might see a 6-day long event, extended […]
Irish Play for KC: The Lieutenant of Inishmore
Posted by: eolai on August 27th, 2007
Spraying blood, bullets in the head, corpse dismemberments - yes it’s Irish comedy time.
The Lieutenant of Inishmore by acclaimed London-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh is coming […]
Larry Kirwan Waxes James Joyce
Posted by: eolai on June 23rd, 2007
Larry Kirwan of Black 47 has wished everyone a belated Happy Bloomsday.
Strictly speaking he’s wishing us a Happy Mollyday as he renames it. Larry considers […]
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20 Reasons for a KC Party About an Irish Book
Posted by: eolai on June 11th, 2007
Bloomsday 2007. An Irish celebration in Kansas City.
Why would you go?
1. It’s FREE
2. There’s Beer
3. The book is the laugh-out-loud kind of fun
4. You don’t […]
Star Reminder of Irish Book Party
Posted by: eolai on June 10th, 2007
John Mark Eberhart in the Kansas City Star gives a plug to the Bloomsday Celebration on Saturday June 16, 2007.
Live Irish music from Eddie Delahunt […]
‘Craic’ or ‘Crack’: Is it Irish?
Posted by: eolai on May 22nd, 2007
In my post on Fun in America and elsewhere I’ve referred to ‘Craic’ being an English term that was then Gaelicized, and Conor has said […]
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KC Literary Festival Gets Crowds Good Enough to Ensure 2008
Posted by: eolai on May 20th, 2007
The Literary Festival, at Kansas City’s Country Club Plaza yesterday, drew a large crowd exceeding the hopes of the organizers and probably ensuring the festival […]
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KC Literary Festival in KC Star
Posted by: eolai on May 17th, 2007
The Kansas City Literary Festival of course isn’t specifically an irish event; it just has a significant Irish element.
Well, if by any chance you’re sick […]
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Podcast of Connie Dover on Poetry
Posted by: eolai on May 16th, 2007
Present Magazine, Kansas City’s increasingly impressive online magazine, has a feature on Connie Dover and her first book of poetry, Winter Count
There are a couple […]
Irish Authors at KC Literary Festival
Posted by: eolai on May 16th, 2007
One of the most interesting things in the Irish world of Kansas City takes place this coming weekend May 17 through May 20, 2007 - […]
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