Do you know emusic.com? They have lots of irish music there, big names, great music. You pay 9.99 USD a month during 1 year, and you can download as much as you want. It’s almost unbelievable.
http://www.emusic.com/genres_popular/380/
thanks a bunch claudine, that’s about the best tip i had in a long time 
but first i’ll have to copie some cd’s from the local library, there are about 350 cd’s IR.TRAD to pick from, there’s no charge.
(i’m lucky i kicked out the television about 5 years ago 
, otherwise, i wouldn’t have the time for all this)