"but only a few had the repertoire of a Walter Pardon."
Large repertoire singers were fairly common - Mary Delaney probably had around 200 - we got over 100 from her.
Tom Lenihan, the same.
Mikey Kelleher - 60-odd.
Par MacNamara - around the same
Duncan Williamson - going on for 60 and literally over 1000 stories.....
Can I justclear something up - I'm not suggesting lots of people didn't have songs - of course they did, but communities had 'singers' with a capital S who were recognised as such
Walter wasn't one in his community - pretty sure Harry Cox wasn't.
Tom Lenihan was - Mry Delaney was - with the kudos that went with the title.
Jim Carroll