Stage Irish or part of a cluster of songs sung by Irish Americans in their homes and church halls and local pubs? Songs they loved and sang with their children and grandchildren as they ate ice cream with shamrocks embedded...songs include mcnamaras band, Kerry dancers, flora loora lora..dear old Donegal..songs sung by bing Crosby and. Johnmccormick. The old songs by and large did not make the Atlantic voyage. So we make do with the songs from tin pan alley written by Jews and Germans,which is fine.and we putup with snark from Irish Irish and snobby musicians..I would never ever tell a nkorwegion what to so g on sytende mai Oran Italian for Columbus day....the day has long enriched for me.