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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Tom Shawver of Bloomsday Books tells me that Eddie Delahunt is confirmed for his annual performance at the FREE mini-festival that is the Bloomsday celebration.
Tom […]

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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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On Saturday June 16, 2007, Browne’s Irish Market & Deli are having their 120th Anniversary Street Fair.
Brownes’ on St Patrick’s Day is such a […]

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A quick reminder that the reading by the Irish poet Desmond Egan at Rockhurst’s Mabee Theatre is today, Sunday, March 25, 2007 at 2pm, and […]

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Boys and girls, right now because of Paddy’s Day in Kansas City, I have approaching fifty posts and pages in draft, and I wish I’d […]

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On May 19 a group of venues on the Plaza will play host to the new Kansas City Literary Festival, and one of them will […]

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Irish poet Desmond Egan is appearing at Rockhurst University’s Mabee Theater on Sunday, March 25, at 2 pm. in an event put together by Rockhurst […]

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  • Irish blog Comment of the month
  • Frank McCourt at the Oxonian Society
  • Technology & Unionism
  • The most Irish place outside Ireland
  • Irish Breweries - […]

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Those of you who remember the great review the Wichita Eagle gave Seamus Heaney’s District and Circle a couple of months ago, might be particularly […]

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Colonialism is rendered in that autobiography as a tyranny of books over life; and so the nervous youth begins with borrowed styles, in the manner […]

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Yesterday Blogonomicon named Gordon Parks (1912-2006) as its pipesmoker of the week. Yes, the director of Shaft and famed photographer.
And why does Irish KC care? […]

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The Irish Wilderness in Oregon County, Missouri is the subject of the first novel by Veronica Roberts featured in The South Missourian News
It’s a story […]

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Just to follow up on Frank McCourt’s visit to MSU, Springfield’s News-Leader has more quotes from the man about where he is now.
Well actually where […]

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A couple of days back I read a great review by Arlice Davenport in the Wichita Eagle of Irish nobel prizewinner Seamus Heaney’s District and […]

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Okay, I admit it. I don’t know what the last seven words are.
James Rogers, Center for Irish Studies, attended the Midwest regional meeting of […]

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Irish Author Frank McCourt is scheduled to spend three days at Missouri State University in November.
McCourt’s only public appearance will be on November 6 […]

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Robert Trussell in today’s Kansas City Star, writes a strong piece advocating Irish playwright Brian Friel’s 1979 play Faith Healer, be staged in Kansas City.
Faith […]

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Although many of the invited participants refused to have anything to do with the Observer’s vote for the best novel of the last twenty-five years, […]

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So I’m on the bus - you know I like the bus - reading the Pitch’s Best of Kansas City 2006 edition. Being narrow-minded and […]

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