[ Irish KC ] http://irishkc.com Kansas City Irish Festivals, Music, Pubs, & Events by an Artist in Ireland Thu, 30 May 2013 15:30:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 en Happy Birthday Dude http://irishkc.com/happy-birthday-dude.htm http://irishkc.com/happy-birthday-dude.htm#comments Thu, 30 May 2013 15:30:20 +0000 Eolaí http://irishkc.com/?p=4777 Happy birthday dude.

Ask fm.

Bedtime
Underneath the dragon

]]> http://irishkc.com/happy-birthday-dude.htm/feed The KC St Patrick’s Day 2013 Links http://irishkc.com/the-kc-st-patricks-day-2013-links.htm http://irishkc.com/the-kc-st-patricks-day-2013-links.htm#comments Sun, 17 Mar 2013 12:40:45 +0000 Eolaí http://irishkc.com/?p=4776 St Patrick’s Day 2013 in Kansas City, in links. Music, photos, videos, parades, events, parties, and stories.

   • KC St Patrick’s Day Parade 2013 (11am Broaday, Linwood to 43rd) website
   • Parade After Party at KC Irish Center
   • Kansas City family related to Irish king, Brian Boru?
   • Irish music at O’Malley’s Irish Pub of Weston
   • Bob Reeder’s March 2013 Schedule
   • Irish Soda Bread by Farm to Market Bread Co
   • Browne’s Irish Market on Fox4 KC
   • Dogs in KC Irish Parades 2013
   • Photos of Brookside 2013 St Patrick’s Parade
   • Video of North KC’s Snake Saturday 2013
   • Photos of Snake Saturday 2013 Northland KC
   • Atheist Coalition barred from Kansas City St Patrick’s Day parade
   • Irish Music by Tullamore on St Patrick’s Day
   • Video of St Pat’s Senior Ball 21013
   • Blue Springs - Shortest KC Metro area parade
   • Keli O’Neill Wenzel in the Paper
   • Green Drinks for St Patrick’s Day
   • Getting Lucky for St Patrick’s Day
   • DeSoto Family tradition in KC Parade
   • Photos Shawnee St Patrick’s Parade
   • Snake Saturday Grand Marshall Celebration
   • Photos of Martin City St Patrick’s Parade
   • KMBC TV’s Michael Mahoney - Irish America by the Numbers

]]> http://irishkc.com/the-kc-st-patricks-day-2013-links.htm/feed Official Book of Kells App Free Just for Today http://irishkc.com/official-book-of-kells-app-free-just-for-today.htm http://irishkc.com/official-book-of-kells-app-free-just-for-today.htm#comments Sun, 17 Mar 2013 11:37:01 +0000 Eolaí http://irishkc.com/?p=4775 To celebrate St Patrick’s Day 2013, the Book of Kells for iPad is free today. Priced at $12.99 at its launch last year, this rather a bargain.

If you have an iPad, and the slightest genuine interest in Irish culture, you really really want this.

The Book of Kells attracts over half a million visitors in Ireland (in Trinity College in Dublin) every year, where - due to its age and condition - pages are turned about once a day. So to see it all you’d need to stay in Ireland for 2 years. Now though, with the app, you can now see it, page by page, in high resolution in your own home.

   • All 680 surviving pages of Ireland’s most famous illuminated manuscript.
   • 21 pages are featured up to 6 times their actual size.
   • Over 600 examples of letters, animals, and other symbols

Here’s the link on itunes

The Book of Kells for iPad follows on from the popular award-winning Book of Kells DVD-ROM which was available until June 2012. With its high quality screen and physical size akin to that of the manuscript, the iPad is seen as an ideal platform to showcase the decorative skills of the scribes and the rich and varied colours used in the drawings.

At the moment there are no versions for Android or other tablets. The current version of the app works on any iPad or iPad mini running iOS 5.1 or later

The DVD-ROM was discontinued.

]]> http://irishkc.com/official-book-of-kells-app-free-just-for-today.htm/feed St Patrick’s 2013 Irish Festival of Music at O’Malley’s http://irishkc.com/st-patricks-2013-irish-festival-of-music-at-omalleys.htm http://irishkc.com/st-patricks-2013-irish-festival-of-music-at-omalleys.htm#comments Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:08:30 +0000 Eolaí http://irishkc.com/?p=4773 There’s almost always live Irish music at O’Malley’s 1842 Irish pub of Weston, Missouri, but there’s quite a bit of it this St. Patrick’s Week of 2013.

Friday March 15
   • Chance the Arm 6:30-8:30 Hall Stage
   • Connacht Town 9:00-12:00 Hall Stage
   • Bob Reeder - Upper Pub

Saturday March 16
   • Chance the Arm 6:30-8:30 Hall Stage
   • Connacht Town 9:00-12:00 Hall Stage
   • Bob Reeder - Upper Pub

Sunday March 17 - St Patrick’s Day
   • Bob Reeder - Upper Pub
   • The Kelihans - 11:30 -3:30 Lower
   • Tullamore - 4:00-7:30 Lower
   • Connacht Town 8:00-12:00 Lower

O’Malley’s Pub is at 500 Welt Street in the Weston, Missouri. It’s a short enough drive north from Kansas City, and oh so worth it for one of the most special pubs you’ll find anywhere.

]]> http://irishkc.com/st-patricks-2013-irish-festival-of-music-at-omalleys.htm/feed Free Gift from the People of Ireland to the World http://irishkc.com/free-gift-from-people-of-ireland-to-world.htm http://irishkc.com/free-gift-from-people-of-ireland-to-world.htm#comments Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:57:08 +0000 Eolaí http://irishkc.com/?p=4774 From the people of Ireland to the people of the world. A History of Ireland in 100 Objects.

You’ll want this, Kansas City. More than drinking beer in midtown. If you want to learn.

To celebrate the Irish EU Presidency and St Patrick’s Day, the Royal Irish Academy, the National Museum of Ireland and the Irish Times are offering a free digital gift ‘from the people of Ireland to the world’.

The gift is an eBook or app of A History of Ireland in 100 Objects by Fintan O’Toole, which has also just been published in hardcopy.

Download your free gift at: www.eu2013.ie/100objects

iPhone, iPad, Kindle Fire and Android tablets.

Watch Fintan explain the book to you here:

]]> http://irishkc.com/free-gift-from-people-of-ireland-to-world.htm/feed Irish Music by Tullamore on St Patrick’s Day 2013 http://irishkc.com/irish-music-by-tullamore-on-st-patricks-day-2013.htm http://irishkc.com/irish-music-by-tullamore-on-st-patricks-day-2013.htm#comments Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:58:23 +0000 Eolaí http://irishkc.com/?p=4772 Emerald, KS and Weston, MO.

Kansas City traditional Irish and Celtic band, Tullamore, kicks its St Patrick’s Day festivities off all the way out in Emeralkd, KS for what is their 9th performance in 10 years at St Patrick’s Church in the Kansas farm community.

Dinner’s from 11:30am to 1:30pm. Located at K-31 and Colorado Road, 6 miles south of Williamsburg. For more information, call (785) 733-2708.

A bit closer to Kansas City, Tullamore then makes its way Weston, Missouri to continue the St Patrick’s Day festivities at the mini-Irish Festival that is the St Patrick’s Day celebration at O’Malley’s 1842 Irish Pub. Tullamore will be performing from 4:00-8:00 in the bottom cellar. Check Tullamore’s website and O’Malley’s website for more info on the final line-up.

O;Malleys rather wonderful pub is located at 500 Welt Street in Weston. For more information, call (816) 640-5235.

]]> http://irishkc.com/irish-music-by-tullamore-on-st-patricks-day-2013.htm/feed The 11th Annual Elders Hoolie in KC http://irishkc.com/the-11th-annual-elders-hoolie-in-kc.htm http://irishkc.com/the-11th-annual-elders-hoolie-in-kc.htm#comments Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:06:22 +0000 Eolaí http://irishkc.com/?p=4771 The Elders Annual St Patrick’s Hoolie at the Uptown Theater in midtown Kansas City is now in its 11th year. Eleven!

It’s on Saturday March 16th this year (2013, if you’re reading this in future years) and it’s at 8.00pm.

You can get your tickets though Ticketmaster or charge by phone at 800-745-3000.

The Elders are Kansas City’s Celtic Rock Supergroup

The Uptown Theater is at 3700 Broadway, Kansas City, MO and the Elders are online at eldersmusic.com, but you know all that.

]]> http://irishkc.com/the-11th-annual-elders-hoolie-in-kc.htm/feed Jonathan Ramsey in St Joseph, Missouri http://irishkc.com/jonathan-ramsey-in-st-joseph-missouri.htm http://irishkc.com/jonathan-ramsey-in-st-joseph-missouri.htm#comments Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:53:19 +0000 Eolaí http://irishkc.com/?p=4770 Jonathan Ramsey, he who once upon a time filled Eddie Delahunt’s shoes in Harlings Upstairs when the Dublin man finished his long spell there, is almost back in town.

Jonathan plays a gig at The Hi Ho on 1817 Frederick Ave Saint Joseph, Missouri (phone: 816-233-7363) on Friday, March 15th at 8:00pm.

Ticket Details: FREE

]]> http://irishkc.com/jonathan-ramsey-in-st-joseph-missouri.htm/feed Eddie Delahunt’s St Patrick’s Bash at Knuckleheads http://irishkc.com/eddie-delahunts-st-patricks-bash-at-knuckleheads.htm http://irishkc.com/eddie-delahunts-st-patricks-bash-at-knuckleheads.htm#comments Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:41:29 +0000 Eolaí http://irishkc.com/?p=4769 The Eddie Delahunt Band play a St. Patrick’s Bash on Friday evening, March 15, 2013 at Knuckleheads in Kansas City, MO.

There’s a $12 admission charge, which I happen to know is good value, and the gig starts at 8.30pm
The former old boarding house that is Knuckleheads Saloon is located in the East Bottoms at 2715 Rochester St, KC, Missouri.

Knuckleheads is a +21 club - which means no one under 21 admitted, unless accompanied by parent or legal guardian.

If you’re not familiar with negotiating the railway tracks you might want to check their website for directions. In fact the website is worth a visit just remind yourself of what the internet looked like in the 1990s.

Read about Eddie Delahunt, Ireland’s Greatest Gift to Kansas City:
  • A Night of Irish Music with Eddie Delahunt
  • The 1st Birthday of Delahunt’s Cafe &
  • Irish Music in the MidWest

]]> http://irishkc.com/eddie-delahunts-st-patricks-bash-at-knuckleheads.htm/feed Keli O’Neill Wenzel in the Paper (and in Ireland) http://irishkc.com/keli-oneill-wenzel-in-the-paper-and-in-ireland.htm http://irishkc.com/keli-oneill-wenzel-in-the-paper-and-in-ireland.htm#comments Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:00:12 +0000 Eolaí http://irishkc.com/?p=4768 Keli O’Neill Wenzel, Executive Director of the Kansas City Irish Fest, and President and Managing Partner of O’Neill Marketing and Event Management, is interviewed in the Kansas City Star Magazine today.

The interview covers Keli’s recent trip to Ireland and Scotland to listen to music and follow up on Shane McEntee’s hopes to do more for Irish tourism in Kansas City. McEntee, now deceased, visited KC when he was the Minister of State for Food, Horticulture and Food (a junior ministerial post in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine of the Government of Ireland).

Q. What’s in it for you to get Kansas Citians to visit Ireland?

A. We want to keep the festival real. We want it not just to be backward-looking and historical but forward-thinking. So the more people know about Ireland today and modern Irish music, the better. We’ve looked at why people here really love (all things) Irish, and we’ve narrowed it down to three things: the music, the people and the storytelling and culture that surround that.

Read all the questions in the magazine

Disclosure: In the early years of the Kansas City Irish Fest I worked with Keli O’Neill Wenzel on the festival and enjoyed the experience.

More on Irish Festivals:
   • The Biggest Irish Fests in America
   • “Irish Festivals” An Essay by Larry Kirwan
   • Irish Fest Memories of Eddie Delahunt

]]> http://irishkc.com/keli-oneill-wenzel-in-the-paper-and-in-ireland.htm/feed Irish Soda Bread by Farm To Market Bread Co http://irishkc.com/irish-soda-bread-by-farm-to-market-bread-co.htm http://irishkc.com/irish-soda-bread-by-farm-to-market-bread-co.htm#comments Wed, 13 Mar 2013 18:23:34 +0000 Eolaí http://irishkc.com/?p=4767 Kansas City’s Farm to Market Bread Co. are celebrating St. Patrick’s Day with locally, handcrafted Irish Soda Bread available for just a very short time, from March 9th through March 17th.

Their Irish Soda Bread is packed with raisins, which is grand, and topped with sugar, which reminds me it’s in America.

Farm to Market Brad Company’s Irish Soda Bread can be found at the following grocery store locations:

  • Cosentino’s Brookside Market
  • Cosentino’s Downtown Market
  • Cosentino’s Price Chopper Brookside
  • Cosentino’s Price Chopper 103rd & State Line
  • Cosentino’s Price Chopper 95th & Mission

  • Hy-Vee Prairie Village
  • Hy-Vee 135th & Antioch
  • Hy-Vee Liberty

  • Door to Door Organics
  • All Hen House Locations

See the Farm to Market Bread Co. official website

Irish French Toast
Also see Eat It KC for using Farm to Market Bread Co’s Irish Soda Bread to make Irish French toast. It means Guinness, syrup, and of course more sugar.

Pitch Weekly
The soda bread also makes an appearance in Fat City in the Pitch, where you get to see the bread cut, and the not altogether bad suggestion that it may be better on the second day toasted with blackberry jam.

See More on Irish Food & Eating:
   • Is Ireland Really Green, Potato-Eating, and Red-Haired ?
   • Do You Eat Turkey at Christmas in Ireland?
   • History of an Irish Pub
   • A sausage in Ireland is NOT called a ‘banger’
   • Fun in Ireland versus Fun in America

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This is presumably because green in a beer is plain wrong if not just mad Ted, but having a beverage that is green is nonetheless essential for the big parading day.

And the 3 green alternatives to green beer?
- An Irish Grasshopper (Irish cream liquer and creme de cacao with creme de menthe for the green)
- An Emerald Mary (vodka based with avocado, lime, tomatillos and cilantro for the green)
- A Herbal Remedy (Irish whiskey based with mint, basil and lime for the green)

Or add ice to the blender and turn your Herbal Remedy into a frozen Irish margarita.

Full recipes available on the Wichita Eagle on Kansas.com.

More on Irish Food & Drink, well Food:
   • Turkeyed Out In Ireland
   • Irish Foods Enjoyed The Most
   • Readapting to the Food in Ireland
   • A Fry

]]> http://irishkc.com/green-drinks-for-st-patricks-day.htm/feed Getting Lucky for St Patrick’s Day http://irishkc.com/getting-lucky-for-st-patricks-day.htm http://irishkc.com/getting-lucky-for-st-patricks-day.htm#comments Wed, 13 Mar 2013 10:09:24 +0000 Eolaí http://irishkc.com/?p=4765 I’m not sure what any of this means, but Jeneé Osterheldt in the Kansas City Star has an article on how to get lucky for St. Pat’s.

Don’t say “St. Pat’s”. Never say “St. Pat’s”. It’s “St. Patrick’s Day” or “Paddy’s Day”. Never Pat. And Never Paddy.

Anyway, I particularly like the phrase “three-leaf clover lucky”. Which makes all clover lucky, since clover has 3 leaves. Except for the odd piece of clover with 4 leaves - which presumably then is unlucky even though traditionally is considered the lucky sort. Or perhaps she’s being ironic.

Also, given that there is no such plant, technically, as a shamrock - it being effectively your own personal choice of clover - it’s just something we wear and call Irish, and as we know it’s lucky to be Irish (unless that phrase was ironic) then Jeneé is absolutely right.

Anyway, read the article for how to get a lucky moustache (shatto milk), date (candy on the plaza), devil (cocktail at Kill Devil Club), room (eco-hotel - green, geddit?), D (Pauly DJ-ing), and manicure (festive green polishes).

]]> http://irishkc.com/getting-lucky-for-st-patricks-day.htm/feed KC Dogs on Irish Parades http://irishkc.com/kc-dogs-on-irish-parades.htm http://irishkc.com/kc-dogs-on-irish-parades.htm#comments Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:34:43 +0000 Eolaí http://irishkc.com/?p=4764 One for people who like looking at dogs walk down the road.

As St Patrick’s Day 2013 approaches, the big parading weekend is almost upon us and the Examiner has a feature on the dog clubs and animal welfare groups that are participating in the Kansas City, Brookside, and Snake Saturday parades.

The Brookside St Patrick’s Parade on Saturday has the Irish Setter Club of Greater Kansas City, the Great Dane Meetup Club, MoKan Greyhound Adoption, and Taysia Blue Siberian Husky Rescue.

The Kansas City St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Sunday has Kansas City Sheltie Rescue, KC Pet Project, and Spay & Neuter Kansas City.

But it’s the Snake Saturday parade in North KC that appears to have the most of the known pet groups participating, with the Friends of Parkville Animal Shelter, Heart of America Newfoundland Rescue, Kansas City Sheltie Rescue, M’Shoogy’s Animal Rescue, Northland Animal Welfare Society, S’Wheat Rescues, and Unleashed Pet Rescue and Adoption.

Read more details by Kimberley Wall in the Examiner

See More on Canine Capers, Less on Paddy’s Parades:
   • My Dog
   • Kansas City Dog Pickings
   • The Good, The Bad, And The Dog
   • Ireland, Pit Bulls, and the City of Kansas

]]> http://irishkc.com/kc-dogs-on-irish-parades.htm/feed Snake Saturday 2013 - Irish Roots & Cowboy Boots http://irishkc.com/snake-saturday-2013-irish-roots-cowboy-boots.htm http://irishkc.com/snake-saturday-2013-irish-roots-cowboy-boots.htm#comments Tue, 12 Mar 2013 02:49:35 +0000 Eolaí http://irishkc.com/?p=4763 Event
The 2013 Snake Saturday Parade & Festival takes place on Saturday, March 16, 2013 • 10:00AM - 3:00PM.

Theme
The parade theme is “Irish Roots and Cowboy Boots”.

Goal
Snake Saturday Parade & Festival Goal: To award over $50,000 in prize monies to 50–100 local charities, and to acknowledge participants, community members and sponsors for their continued support in making Snake Saturday Parade & Festival a huge success that helps so many people.

History
Snake Saturday Parade & Festival in North Kansas City, MO began in 1983 as a promotion for Rodeway Inn. There were 4 floats and a Grand Marshal. The temperature was 10 degrees, so the parade took place in the motel parking lot allowing people to view from their rooms and the coffee shop. The parade winner that year was a young lady, who rode on the back of a Harley Davidson motorcycle wearing a bright green bikini. The parade has celebrated every year since, whatever the weather and always on the Saturday before St. Patrick’s Day.

Read
See also: Snake Saturday event Still Needs Volunteers
Visit Snake Saturday’s official website

Location
Festival grounds border Armour Road on the north and 18th Avenue on the south, Fayette on the west and Howell on the east.

Carnival
The Snake Saturday Carnival area will open up on Friday evening for those looking to venture out for some fun with the kids (or even a date night!) Food vendors and the Free kids area will add to the excitement on Saturday from 10am-3pm, with the Parade starting at 11am!

Family-friendly
Snake Saturday is a family-friendly event, with no open alcohol containers allowed outside the bars and restaurants.

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