Please, I said to everyone I know, don’t send me a Christmas card. For I have no home and nowhere to hang the cards in […]

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Cork’s favourite sons on tour in America, Jimmy Crowley and Máirtín de Cógáin are back playing in Kansas City.
You can see them perform at […]

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Cork’s Máirtín de Cógáin and the band he performs in The Fuchsia Band, have both won awards on the Celtic music radio show, No Celtic […]

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In advance of The Fuchsia Band’s appearance at this weekend’s Jackson Celtic Fest, there’s a nice interview with front-man and part-time Kansas City resident, Máirtín […]

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• The Elders
• Gaelic Storm
• O Riada Academy
• Different Drums
• Searson
• Solas
• John Spillane
• Glengarry Bhoys
• The Fuchsia Band
• Eddie Delahunt
• The Saw Doctors
• Jimmy […]

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List time again.
I’m clearing my desk and so packing away the CDs that are on it. They are not all the CDs I […]

Read: Packing List #1: CDs on the Desk »

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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Here’s a few Irish music links I’m bumped into recently that I haven’t done posts on.
They are mostly photos, videos, or news. Or any combination […]

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Sweltering. 45th & State Line. Cafe &. Nice night for a cycle. Aproned Eddie mans the gate with Gabe. Máirtín introducing Dick Darby on stage. […]

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Here’s a few random notes for the here and now readers among you.
If you’re reading these notes there and then, I apologise.
Bear in mind […]

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Talking of following Irish trad bands, The Fuchsia Band from Cork are back in the US and, as they tour around, Eoin Verling has once […]

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Yes I went to see the bould Eddie Delahunt perform in Kansas City for the first time since his return from Ireland.
The perfect surface of […]

Read: Report From O’Dowd’s Little Dublin 7/11/2007 »

For my own reference, here’s a whole load of links to MySpace pages connected with Kansas City that I visit regularly.
Comedy, Bloggers, Bands, Cinema, Pubs, […]

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Back for one-night only - albeit in Cork and TONIGHT, Sunday July 6, 2007, which is just beyond the driving limits of the KC metro […]

Read: Thailand for a Night in Cork »

People have been asking me how fared the nearest to a representative Kansas City had at the inaugural Balcony TV awards.
Well Máirtín de Cógáin didn’t […]

Read: Balcony Awards: Winners, Losers, and Kansas City »

From Tuesday June 19th - Saturday June 23rd, 2007, as part of the Cork Midsummer Festival, part-time KC resident, Cork’s own Máirtín de Cógáin stars […]

Read: Thailand: What’s Love Got To Do With It »

Over the last year we’ve featured Ireland’s Balcony TV here on Irish KC quite a few times.
Well, to celebrate their first year Balcony TV […]

Read: Mairtin Nominated for 1st Balcony TV Awards »

Last night I was talking with one of the committee members for the Jennifer Ireland Foundation, and he told me that there are still some […]

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It’s almost time for The Wind That Shakes The Barley to make its Kansas City appearance, and Máirtín de Cógáin sends news that he has […]

Read: Discount Rate For Some Barley Premiere Tickets »

You may recall I told you about this song when talking of the songs we learned in school - and this would be in Ireland […]

Read: Everybody sings Óró sé do bheatha ‘bhaile »