As always Malcolm talk a lot of sense.

My own experience of Ireland is that only recently (40 years) have they distinguished between any sort of music by labelling it.........it was all just "music" when I first started going there in the early 60's. AFAIK "country music" is/was just as popular as what we might now call traditional music - there were hundreds of "showbands" that played an eclectic mix of all sorts of material.......with a basis of c and W music.

Which might be an easier attitude for her to convey........

And...........

There are loads of books about this sort of thing!!

I can sell her/recommend.or both.........a number of these..

Dave
www.collectorsfolk.co.uk