New details have been discovered about the life of Irish immigrant John King, one of only 19 people who have received two Congressional Medals of Honor and who will be honored March 14 with a ceremony at his Hot Springs gravesite. Governor Mike Beebe and Irish Consul General Martin Rouine have been invited to attend […]
Hot dog! Elvis is coming to the First Ever Eighth Annual World’s Shortest St. Patrick’s Day Parade on March 17. The real Elvis. The International Order of Irish Elvi have been a part of the parade since its beginning. They admit they’re impersonators. The Elvis who will take part in the 2011 parade is a […]
The Corrigan Brothers, an Irish band from Limerick, has honored Hot Springs’ World’s Shortest St. Patrick’s Day Parade by putting the event in their latest Irish recording. They say they did it to thank Hot Springs for making their earlier hit song — “There’s No One as Irish as Barack Obama” — the official theme […]
The new King and Queen of the First Ever Eighth Annual World’s Shortest St. Patrick’s Day Parade will be Dick Antoine and Susan Harper, it was announced today. Antoine’s elevation to parade king means there will also be a new World’s Tallest Leprechaun — Monte Everhart — a position the lanky Antoine filled since the […]