Coats vary in texture.
There are also smooth coats, flat coats, open coats, curly coats, wavy coats, soft coats, and pick out coats. The preferred method of grooming an Irish Terrier is called stripping. It is not hard to learn, and isn't painful to the dog. It's done with the use of the forefinger and the thumb, or with a dull stripping knife. There is an art to using a stripping knife.