It's St. Patrick's Day! You know what that means

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I used to teach English As a Second Language in Arizona - home to many illegals in the late 70’s, 80’s and 90’s.

We were never allowed to ask or to prove they were here legally.
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When someone is hiring you as their attorney to do something that could affect their status, asking isn’t optional 🙂

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Don’t listen to much Irish folk music in English - ‘sean-nós’ is more my favorite; very traditional, very old style of singing. Iarla O Lionard is a great example.

‘Clannad’ is a great band for a more contemporary twist to traditional tunes. ‘Altan’ as well. Many of their songs are in Irish Gaelic.

As an amateur musician, I particularly like the typical ‘session’ tunes.

Do not care for the Anglo-Irish tradition at all - many are actually old American broadsides; no Irish origins at all.

Beannachtaí Pádhraig oraibh (better late than never 😉 )
 
I remember once, many moons ago, on a visit to Ireland watching a music awards show on television and being gob-smacked to the maximum extent by the number of country western acts; it was almost as if that was the music of Ireland! (This was in 1989 I think.) I never quite got my equilibrium back after that (because at the time for me personally country western wasn’t exactly what I considered ‘cool.’)
 
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Jamaica and Japan* have reggae and enka (and J-Pop but that’s very slick) whereas Ireland seems to love American music. Which is great but why country western so much? One more memory: going to a pub in the town in county Cork where my relatives live and expecting to hear traditional Irish folk music and instead being treated to live musicians playing … Simon and Garfunkel? In fact I’ve never heard Irish music being played or listened to in Ireland, only in and amongst the diaspora, where it’s much beloved.

*Side note: my Japanese father-in-law, for what it’s worth, is a huge fan of classic Broadway show tunes (as am I): South Pacific, Anything Goes, that sort of thing.
 
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As I’m beginning to take up the mandolin I’m learning a bit about Irish music and it seems quite distinctive musicologically.
 
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