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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Since being one of the very 1st sites to announce Irish movie Once’s win at the Sundance Film Festival, through to its immense popularity in […]

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It’s been ages since we’ve done a Sunday Short, and Oscar Sunday is as good a day as any for an excuse to show another […]

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With the week that’s in it, I thought I’d do one of my disclosure posts.
You know the way I talk about all things Irish as […]

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This morning the immensely popular recent Irish film Once was announced to have received an Oscar nomination.
In the category for Best Song, Falling Slowly has […]

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Here’s a special request I received from a film company in Ireland.
They’ve already made an excellent award-winning film on Liam Clancy and are now seeking […]

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On Wednesday November 7th, 2007 the immensely popular recent Irish film Once can be seen for FREE at the Shepherd’s Center of Kansas City Central […]

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While my dog waits for an entry visa, through the magic of 21st century technology we’ve been enjoying long political arguments and indeed some entertainment […]

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A reminder that the World Premiere of Resting Places is tonight.
This is the locally made film narrated by Liam Neeson about roadside memorials that […]

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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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For one night only, on Thursday, September 13, 20007 The Elders: Alive and Live in Ireland is being screened as the kick-off to the […]

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Speaking of Irish events in Kansas City, although I posted it on the Irish Events Calendar I didn’t draw your attention last week to […]

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In Waterfall in 1955 hurling was out. And rock ‘n’ roll was in.
Written and directed by the late Ronan Phelan, Gangs of Waterfall is a […]

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The Irish movie Once has been added to the schedules at the Tivoli for another week to August 23, 2007.
It is now in what Jerry […]

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Sunday Short time.
Strictly speaking this is not an Irish Short Film. But it is a film, and it’s Irish, and it’s short.
It’s episode 7 from […]

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