next point, the songs we like to call folk songs are not the songs that most of the folk in the uk like to hear , so how can they be folk songs, tey are laughed at by the majority of british people, and even to some extent by irish people , who on occassions refer to their instrumental music as diddley music or even "its just one tune", in my opinion irish instrumental music is more varied chordally than english music , but that is not the opinion of at least half the irish people whop prefer country and irish