Kansas City Halloween Irish Pooka Party 2008
Kansas City’s 5th Annual Halloween Pooka Party takes place on Saturday, Oct 25, 2008 in Harling’s Upstairs.
It’s the time of the year again for Ron Jeremy lookalikes, nuns with bad habits, and big-footed flightless birds.
Once again the party organised by the brothers Delahunt, Eddie and Colm, is the Irish Halloween party in Kansas City to be seen at.
Games, prizes, raffles, you know the drill. It’s one that was used in Driller-Killer. That’s the spirit; it’s a Halloween Party.
Pooka is the Irish word for ghost. Kind of. Because it’s not exactly.
And that isn’t how you spell it in Irish anyway. Pooka is an anglicisation of the gaelic word púca.
The Púca is a ghostly kind of being. In a fairy kind of way. With specific traits. More than your average ghost then, though growing up we would have used púca at times to mean just a plain old ghost.
Confused? Good. Because it’s Halloween and you should be.
Well actually it’s the weekend before Halloween. But you know what I mean.
When I introduced the party last year I told you a little story of Halloween in Ireland remembered in KC.
The Halloween Pooka Party will once again be a benefit do, with all proceeds going to the Good Samaritan Project. See if you can help it do better than last year’s total.
Harling’s once upon a time was the favourite pub of the Irish in Kansas City. But even by the time I arrived in KC it had faded from glory. You’ll find it where you left it - on Main a block south of 39th Street.
This event is posted on the Kansas City Irish events calendar.
See More Halloween and Delahunt Stuff:
• How Do You Pronounce Samhain?
• Hallowe’en in Ireland: A Quiz
• Eddie Delahunt’s CD Triuir
• Profiling Halloween
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