Jim Carroll: given that this discussion has started, I think you shoud explain more fully what the lines of criticm of Kennedy might be. I suspect most readers of this thread will not be that familiar with the situation, so perhaps you could spell things out a little. Your criticisms seem to centre on his treatment of the performers he recorded, and possibly also rfer to the qustion of the ownership of rights in the recordings.
    I should say i have criticised Kennedy in the past about aspects of his publications(especially the "fake" Cornish folksongs), but I have no knowledeg other than vague gossip about his treatment of source singers. So tell us what you are hinting at.
    What is surely undeniabnle that he rescued a vast body of stuff that we would never have been able to access for ourselves. He was a colossal figure in the history of the revival.
    On a technical point on an earlier posting: were C/C# boxed that prevqalent in Ireland? I am very familiar with the C#/D and the B/C styles, both enormously popular till the present day: but were there a lot of C/C# ones around? And I dont know about the northeast reception of Irish radio, but I always listened to Irish radio from choice when I lived in Lancashire(the NW).