Don, I'm a Clancys/Makem era guy but even *I* know *that* ain't so. In fact so did the ould Clancys & Makem & Dubliners & Irish Rovers etc. & even the Wolfetones (!) & all those guys; and their work covered a pretty broad subject-matter spectrum even back in the day. AND, even if THEY sometimes hyped the faux-macho image you portray, which they sometimes did. And for loftier oldies that don't fill your bill at all, at all--ever hear The Chieftains? Now Irish & other Celtic music as it has cintinued to evolve down to *today* --- well, both lyrically & melodically it's even farther removed from your premise.

Oh, sure, there's *some* basis for most stereotypes including this one---stereotypes (just *generally* speaking here, yknow :) don't arise out of nothing at all---but leave us not overexaggerate, OK? (Yes, let us exaggerate *just enough*:)

Oh an' by the by, b'ye, whaddaya mean, "screwin"? Ain't no **screwin**! Too dam' graphic. Needs subtlety, indirection, nuance. Love.

I know a valley fair
Eileen Aroon
I know a cottage there
Eileen Aroon
Far in that valley's shade
I know a tender maid
Flower of the hazel glade
Eileen Aroon.

Who in the song so sweet
Eileen Aroon
Who in the dance so fleet
Eileen Aroon
Dear are her charms to me
Dearer her laughter free
Dearest her constancy
Eileen Aroon.

Were she no longer true
Eileen Aroon
What would her lover do
Eileen Aroon
Fly with a broken chain
Far o'er the sounding main
Never to love again
Eileen Aroon.

Youth will in time decay
Eileen Aroon
Beauty must fade away
Eileen Aroon
Castles are sacked in war
Chieftains are scattered far
Truth is a fixed star
Eileen Aroon.

"Romance...specificly sandwiched in between drinkin and screwin" ?