"Indeed, whenever I've been to the emerald isle, the most popular music is c & w."

I think though that many now are very proud of their traditional music - quite rightly. However and I don't mean to be funny but this is seriously what I've found.We have a pub session every Friday night and there are always tourists there. Mostly English or Scottish but we get lots of Americans, Irish people and Aussies etc too plus toher Europeans. People often request songs and you know what people are like if they've had a drink sometimes they can go on and on. English, Americans and Aussies etc are holidaying in Scotland and more often than not they ask for Scottish songs. As you would! However the Irish tend to ask for Irish songs or at least they ask for what they think are Irish songs. Not all the Irish songs they ask for are actually Irish. Now I know that is a sweeping statement but it is what I've tended to find. It always strikes me as strange. I wouldn't go to Donegal and ask the players in a pub to play Caledonia or Both Sides The Tweed! I'd want to hear the music of the country I was visiting!