KC Irish Links Round-Up for Paddy’s Day 2010
To round off the Paddy’s Day nonsense, here’s some links from news and blogs possibly related to Kansas City and St Patrick’s Day. I suspect there may yet be more.
• A reminder that KU’s Spencer Research Library boasts one the largest collections of Irish literature outside of Ireland
• KCTV5 interviews parade co-chair Kevin Bundy in Browne’s
• The parade committee announced the 2010 KC St Patrick’s Day Parade Prize Winners
• Brookside & Snake Saturday Parades feature the Star’s Photo Gallery
• The Voice of Pete McCluskey features on the KC Star’s Video report of the parade (1:45mins)
• The 1st Irish triplets in the KC Area had their 6th own little neighborhood parade
• Why can’t a girl have 2 favourite colours? Learning Leslie enthuses about the colour green
• Downtown Lee’s Summit announced its 5th Emerald Isle Parade results
• The Kansas City Gaelic Athletic Club went to the parade
• Irish Oatmeal and Irish humidity gets an appreciation by The Star
• In a 2 minute video on Fox4, Ireland’s Ian Byrne lives the American Dream
• Jules gets understandably irritated at the Brookside parade, and gives us a whole bunch of facts about St Patrick (that to be honest some of us don’t accept)
• Original Kansas Citian Julie makes for the 1st time Irish soda bread in Nebraska
• How Did You Spend St Patrick’s Day? The Bonner Springs Chieftain tells a few very short stories
• Kansas Bob remembers singing “When Irish Eyes Were Smiling” in Elementary school
• Types of Irish beverages are described in a drinks rundown by Blake Hannon
• Not for the 1st time, the luck of the Irish is called into question as the sort of luck you might want
• Drunk-Monkey found it hard to get into party mode midweek