yes,Jim it is interesting,
what I also find interesting is the lack of modern songs in a folk style[in Ireland]about the dangers of drug addiction,it is, as if some subjects are swept under the carpet,also not many modern folksongs about immigration from other countries,these are two things that are happening right here and now in Ireland ,yet singers are not singing about them,have you collected any?,or do you think that is not part of your remit as a collector?does it mean the tradition is stagnating?.Dick Miles