We had it before you.
Once upon a time Halloween in Ireland was a bit like this.
We did, and still do, what you call ‘trick-or-treating’ but […]

Read: Yes, We Have Halloween in Ireland »

Those of you who liked some of my Travel pieces from the past, such as A Table in a Prague Tavern, or the Phnom Penh […]

Read: An Irishman in London »

Most of my memories are mathematical.
Even when I remember smells and sights, it is the maths that triggers them.
For example, every time I look […]

Read: A Relationship Graphed by Japanese Art »

I never go past it any more.
Because it isn’t there any more. Yet it looks like it is.
Twice last week I cycled through the Park. […]

Read: Phoenix Park Racecourse: The Lodge »

Probably my favourite time to sit at a table as one of 4 strangers was on a train in England from Crewe to Birmingham.
An […]

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Frequently when setting off to pick up my son during winter in Kansas City, I would fill the birdfeeder that hung from my porch.
So that […]

Read: Nobody’s Child #39 »

5 years ago today, in Kansas City, I wrote these words:
It’s 5 months today since my wife and I separated.
Distractions are a permanent feature […]

Read: Nobody’s Child #34 »

Maybe it’s an over-reaction on my part.
Before I move countries there’s alway a sign. A sign that things just aren’t quite right where you […]

Read: Signs From The Gods #1 »

Distracted by the move to Ireland from Kansas City I forgot about giving away the Ardal O’Hanlon document.
A reminder that if you want this […]

Read: Last Call for Ardal O’Hanlon Document »

Less than an hour after Columbus Day and I find myself in Ireland all nostalgic for the day I had this time last year.
Or maybe […]

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Currently I am of no fixed abode and still sorting out paperwork related to the life I just left in the US. Thanks to d’oul […]

Read: An Irish Shed »

Anyone keeping an eye on my Irish sKCraps, and reading every entry here on Irish KC obsessively, might be interested to know that Peter […]

Read: The Late Late Phil Lynott »

Kansas City’s excellent Lovers In Transit get played and toasted on Irish music person extraordinaire B.P. Fallon’s Breakthru Radio show Wang Dang Doodle #16.
The first […]

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In this city that boasts more fountains than Rome (or everywhere else but), every morning shortly after sunrise I watch a couple of men advance […]

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Back when the Lucan Road west of Chapelizod wasn’t a one-way off ramp from the N4, it was the main feature of my typical cycling […]

Read: Royal Blue Toyota Corollas Banned in Dublin »

One of the greatest sights I first noticed in Kansas City, was this great mural depicting Dublin’s legendary 1983 All-Ireland winner, Kieran Duff.
Dublin’s forward Duff, […]

Read: Dublin Legend in Kansas City »

Speaking of anger, it’s Sunday, and I always think of Sunday as a day of anger.
Apartheid is something that used to make me angry. […]

Read: Remembering Stephen Biko »

I remember being furious with the FAI. Within 12 feet of where I sat, English boots and fists laid into Irish bodies.
It was 1991 and […]

Read: Watch The FA Cup Final on TV in Kansas City »

Irish major entertainment blog Blogorrah today gave the heads up on The Police performing at Dublin’s Croke Park in October this year.
Maybe I’ve forgotten, but […]

Read: The Garda Band at Croker »

The first time I didn’t fast on a Good Friday I was on a train in North Wales.
I didn’t know I wasn’t fasting; after my […]

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