You need to cut along and get yourself CDs by Daniel O'Donnell and by Bridie Gallagher. Learn all the songs thereon and ye'll be set with material for life. Failing that here are some of the songs that I keep having inflicted on me sung in bogus Irish accents by Brits: Athenry, The Rare Ould Times, Something about a triangle on the old canal, Step it Out Mary, Wild Rover (especially risible sung by timid Brit IT programmers, civil servants and school teachers) The Tinkermans Daughter, Something something something with a toolbox on your back, From Clare to Here, Ride On, Black Velvet Band, Mountains of Mourne, Teddy O'Neill, Song for I-err Land, something about O for the price of a flight, Galway Shawl, Rare Old Mountain Dew. That's quite enough to see you thru. Don't worry about Danny Boy as some drunk will insist on gargling his way thru it to finish off the evening.
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