Glor na Gael
Do have and have had music competitions,I have been asked to judge on at least two occasions.,get your facts right.

Right Dick - tell us which national Glor na nGael competition you were asked to judge. What I suspect you were asked to judge was a local competition organised by a local committee of Glor na nGael as a fund raiser. They probably organise dances and beetle drives too.

The prizes nationally are given to the committees which I first mentioned. It's about the Irish language and its promotion. Of course that may include the music but it's about the Irish language. Comhaltas does the music and they also get massive state funding.

As for the Irish Traditional Music Archive its next big project is to put its catalogue on line.

I suspect it will be a long time before the material gets on line.

But answer me this question Dick, do you think that Glor Na nGael committee structure would work for folk music in England or does it depend on what you mean by folk music?