"The state-funded folk-show in Ireland"
You seem to be continulindg to distort (deliberately, to make your non existant case) the situation in Ireland.
Irish music has been ongoing as a performed art for at least the forty years I have been visiting here - so much so that the arts establishment are no longer able to ignore irt, as they did up to ten years ago.
Irish traditional music has not compromised as the English revival has, not complained that the songs are too long, the music too old hat or in need of modification to suit new tastes - it is, and has always stood on its own love of anf respect for the music - you do no good to your case by lying.
The same goes for your loaded and - as ever misleading post.
Your own performance makes clear that you neither like, understand or particularly care for traditional forms - fine; your choice, but at least make an effort not to try and force your own standards of others - dishonesty gets no-one anywhere in these discussions.
If we throw away the ballads because they are too long, we may as well throw Dickens and Tolstoy on the same bonfire
Jim Carroll