As we head in to Christmas its amazing how many Irish-Americans have contributed to our culture of Christmas related songs and carols. Tin Pan Alley was practicly done when Bing Crosby had his huge hit of “White Christmas” in 1942. That one song kept songwriters in business for the next decade as they all tried to write the next Christmas hit song. Many of the current songs we sing today came from that time period. Burl Ives was half Irish and of course he left us a wealth of Christmas songs…and who could forget Suzie snowflake made famous by Rosemary Clooney.