There was much excitement in Ireland yesterday as 3 Irish Film Board funded movies received Oscar nominations.
A total of 5 Academy Award nominations went to […]

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Liam Clancy passed away earlier today after a long illness. Perhaps the last of a golden age of Ireland’s folk singers, we’ve spoken of Liam […]

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The KC Tribune repeats the error that The Baker, showing tonight in the Kansas International Film Festival, is an Irish Film.
The movie is British […]

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The Irish Sea, you might say. But anyway, it’s that time of year when I think about a festival in Kansas City.
Up in Toronto today, […]

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The Yellow Bittern, the new film, or movie as you say in America, about Liam Clancy previewed here in Dublin a few days ago and […]

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Thought I’d share this snippet with you. Doing the rounds on Ireland’s blogs, forums, and radio stations today is this phone greeting at a […]

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This is a bit mean. I’m off out to the premiere of the Irish film Wide Open Spaces with the cast and crew here in […]

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Here’s some clips from the 1967 film adaptation of James Joyce’s Ulysses with Milo O’Shea as Leopold Bloom including the scene which was immortalized in […]

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Hunger, the film about the 1981 Hunger Strikes at the H-Blocks, gets a detailed, but negative, review from Loey Lockerby in the Kansas City Star
Rated […]

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At the moment I can’t turn the television on in Ireland without seeing Overland Park, Kansas boy made good, Paul Rudd. It’s not impossible or […]

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A Kansas City film of all mixed up relationships, which includes a scene shot in the much remembered iconic space that was Bloomsday Books, begins […]

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There is a FREE movie this Monday, August 4, 2008 at the Screenland in Kansas City’s Crossroads district.
Update: Please see Roger Feeley’s comment below about […]

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A performance by The Elders in Ben Meade’s film American Music: Off The Record gets a nice highlighted noting on FilmGuru.Net:
Director [Meade] cuts his documentary […]

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Homemade Hillbilly Jam is a documentary about 3 modern-day “hillbilly” families from southwestern Missouri and their music-making heritages.
I don’t want to get into a debate […]

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Sunday Short time.
The featured Irish short film today is a nice little fable called Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom (My Name Is You Ming). It’s […]

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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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CinemaNow are offering a bunch of Irish, and Irishish, movies at half price until Sunday, March 23, 2008. It’s a St Patrick’s Day promotion.
I’m only […]

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Last chance for FREE tickets to the Music of Ireland concert TONIGHT by the emmy award-winning Kansas City Chorale.
A pair of tickets is worth […]

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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, […]

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Kansas City gets a chance to see the Oscar winning stars of the Irish movie Once, Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova, when they perform at […]

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