Oggie;
Couldn't agree more - the Irish Folklore Society housed, at Trinity is not particularly user friendly, but my attitude regarding the situation in the UK is 'needs must when the devil drives'.
Our own collection is housed at The National Sound Archive at The British Library, which is far from ideal, but better than nothing.
"Ooh Seem to have touched a nerve. Good."
For your info Ralphie - born and brought up a Brit, spent nearly sixty years of my life there, forty years involved in folk clubs, thirty recording traditional singers and some time attempting to set up a national folk music archive in London.
And there's me thinking 'Little Britain' was a sit-com. You never stop learning - do you?
Life may be ideal in your little corner of the British Empire, but some of us think differently and would like to help.
But never mind, keep the flag flying and the natives in their place - chin-chin,
Jim Carroll