Re: "Danny Boy" on Shamrock Day?

In article <F9ydnefTBLjlqEjanZ2dnUVZ_tzinZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Kip Williams  <kiptw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Harry Mary Andruschak wrote:
>> Not in one New York Irish-themed pub...
>> 
>> http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0307/dannyboy.html
>
>Back in the 70s, my grandfather was in Ireland listening to live music. 
>He requested "MacNamara's Band" and the scornful reply was, "That song 
>was written in Brooklyn!"

A whole LOT of what USians consider Irish music was written in
Tin Pan Alley, first to appeal to homesick Irish and, by a rapid
transfer, to late-nineteenth-century folk who were suckers for
sentiment.  (After all, the homesick Irish were probably too
broke, at that stage in their development, to buy sheet music.)

ObSF: Kevin Riley singing endless choruses of "I'll Take You Home
Again, Kathleen," on Star Trek TOS.

Dorothy J. Heydt
Albany, California
djheydt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]