Speaking of photographs, some of the phots I have enjoyed the most in the last several months are those that Pete Maher posted of the […]

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It’s still in the Midwest, and it’s still in Missouri, but from the beginning of May the world headquarters of the Midwest Irish Focus will […]

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On its MySpace page, Midwest Irish Focus has posted a picture of the year 2007 in pictures, if you know what I mean.
As reviews of […]

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The Midwest Irish Focus has relocated to Maryville in northwest Missouri.
Reasons for so doing are explained on the Focus MySpace Blog.
Kansas City will continue to […]

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Pete Maher gets his name in the paper.
Specifically The Maryville Daily Forum regarding his appointment as Managing Editor.
Pete, who often times resembles a big fluffy […]

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The following review of To Hell Or Barbados by Damien Dempsey, appears in a slightly shorter version in the July 2007 issue of the Midwest […]

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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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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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Reading reports of soccer matches here in Missouri is as foreign to me as reading reports of American sports.
However with some translation I can get […]

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Celtic Comment is a column in the Midwest Irish Focus, a monthly newspaper for Irish-America in Missouri, Kansas, and a whole bunch of surrounding states […]

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Midwest Irish Focus, the monthly Irish newspaper by Pete Maher that focuses primarily on Irish-Americans in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, Arkansas and Oklahoma, […]

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End Times
Fridges all over the middle of America have invitations clamped to them. And I’ll never get used to these invitations to social functions […]

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Solving the World’s Problems.
I used to get my hair cut in Ringsend in Dublin. I would walk from where I worked in Ballsbridge, ignoring much […]

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The beauty of a venue like the Bragg Auditorium is, as Cathie Ryan said herself, that she gets to perform songs she just can’t do […]

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It has no legal standing, in terms of the Official Languages Act, but the results of the plebiscite in The Town Formerly Known As Dingle […]

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St Petersburg doesn’t get any tourists. It used to when it was Leningrad but then they changed the name and the tourists all went to […]

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Real official Irish dirt can be bought in America from two Irishmen who are not afraid of getting their hands dirty.
For planting a tree […]

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Last week I had a chance to see “What Means Motley?” which showed at the recent Kansas International Film Festival. The following is a review […]

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Update: See review of Cathy Ryan gig
The MVFS is presenting Cathie Ryan and her band, on Thursday, November 9 at 7:30 pm, at All Souls […]

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