The Beatles weren't even in it. Cunningham's success started a veritable stampede of C 'n' I artists, and the biggest of the lot was a big fella from Co Monaghan named Tom McBride. Big Tom became the Elvis of Country 'n' Irish, even though he looked more like Elvis's doorman, and his band, The Mainliners, broke box office records wherever they played. So we'll never see his like again, and we have that in writing. The only place it's dead is in radio, where it's not considered cool.
Country comes from the same stem as traditional, and it's played on banjos, mandolins and fiddles.
My style is more traditional Irish, with a bit of old-fashioned music hall. She'll be doing some nice ballads, and that song from Titanic. Although he admits that the golden age of Country 'n' Irish has long passed, Shine has no intention of hanging up the washcloth just yet. But I enjoy what I do, and the more people who vomit every time they hear me, the more people there are who really have a good night out. Deaf people are also known to be uncommonly tolerant of it.