Completely off-topic
There is a story I heard about the wonderful Kerry box-player, the late Johnny Leary and a Northern Ireland singer having a conversation in a local pub here in Miltown; collector Tom Munnelly was sitting with them.
Johnny went to the bar to buy a round and the singer turned to Tom and said, "He's a lovely man, but I can't understand a word he says".
Some time later the singer went to the toilet and Johnny said, "What a nice man - I wish I knew what he was talking about"!
Jim Carroll