I was in "O'Donoghue's" Pub in Dublin one night back about the summer of 1968 when Joe was BITTEN by the resident fiddle player, or so he claimed , (bitterly?). I'd met him previously (If my chronology is correct) at a wedding and he remembered me and we had a long discourse in which he critiscised severely the "Dubliners and more of them " who were, he insisted, copying and cashing in on the then success of the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem He was of the opinion that the kind of "Anglo-Irish" music then being performed all over the city was much inferior to the true Gaelic or Sean-nos that he and others preferred.
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