With reference to Fiddlers Green, John Conolly told me some years ago that the trad tag arose from the fact that the recording company grabbed the copyright when he first recorded it, and that, while he has been fighting to recover his rights to his intellectual property, they have allowed it to be added to several compilations with thr proviso that it be credited as trad, because they could not admit it was his without prejudicing their case.

Don T.