Tribute to Ronnie Drew
Posted by: Eolaí on February 21st, 2008
Here’s something that’s been creating a bit of a buzz in Irish music circles for the last few weeks.
It’s the tribute to Ronnie Drew. No, […]
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Appreciating the Living: The Politics of the Last Atrocity
Posted by: Eolaí on April 18th, 2007
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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How Do You Pronounce Samhain?
Posted by: Eolaí on October 30th, 2006
It’s the day before Halloween, or as I call it, Halloweeneen, and how to pronounce Samhain, the Irish for Hallowe’en, keeps popping up.
If the English […]
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Sunday October 15 at Weston Irish Festival
Posted by: Eolaí on October 15th, 2006
And packing no surprises on Kansas City’s Irish Events site, here’s the schedules for the three main entertainment stages in Weston TODAY:
(click performers for profiles)
Courtyard […]
Bono and Geldof for Nobel?
Posted by: Eolaí on October 13th, 2006
Channel 4 thinks they know who might be on the confidential shortlist. Don’t we go through this ‘Bono and Bob show’ every year?
Just think […]
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Irish Festival Fever
Posted by: Eolaí on August 8th, 2006
There’s an article in Irish America Magazine, hosted at Irish Abroad, that wonders if the reason why American summer Irish festivals have become so popular […]
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Irish Press Banned as Irish Independence Revoked
Posted by: Eolaí on August 6th, 2006
The recent Chris Moyles Bob Geldof thing reminded me of when I worked in England and my English boss - who was about to go […]
Little Judy’s trying to watch “Top of the Pops”
Posted by: Eolaí on June 21st, 2006
In 1978 deep down in her pocket Judy found 50p (p? what’s p?).
10 years earlier Irish money was pre-decimal so 10 bob is what […]
Geldof: We don’t die of drought in Kansas
Posted by: Eolaí on April 13th, 2006
I think it’s all L Frank Baum’s fault, and not the false impression so many have of Kansas being as flat as a pancake, but […]
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