Jim,When I was a schoolboy over 60 years ago, in most parts of Ireland the music of our country was buried beneath a deluge of US pop, from morning to night it was on the Wireless, the only few sparks shining through was a BBC programme on a Sunday morning featuring Seamus Ennis and a few English folk musicians, also Radio Eireann had Ceol de Phasti with Ciarian Mac Mathuna 5-15 on a Sunday afternoon, those apart, there was damm all else.

In the 1960s along came the folk groups the people that resurrected our music,the much maligned groups castigated by the musical snobs who were nowhere to be seen when the music was almost dead and buried.

I find it incredible that even yet we have these know-alls who can never realise what it was like in the 1940s and 50s, Jim I heard people being laughed at at weddings or `big nights` if they attempted to sing a come-all-ye,what a change to-day, go on to You Tube and listen to great traditional music and song, this was unheard off when I was young.

So please don`t preach to me of the dearth of music in this present day, long may I continue to hear of families with no back-ground in traditional music, yet these children, lots now adults, make their parents and grandparents proud when they play for them.

How did this great revival come about?, through Comhaltas, Scor and the great love of traditional music inherit in the vast majority of Irish people, I will continue to praise everyone associated with this, long may it continue.