you do no good to your case by lying.

I'm not lying, Jim; all I have to go on are your revelatory accounts of the Folk Utopia in Ireland as oppose to the bastardised do-as-you-will free-for-all we have to suffer over here on the mainland. Never been to Ireland, have no intention of going; I don't think my ears could cope with purity of folk you have on offer there. Can we mere mortals taste Ambrosia? (and no smart comments about Tapioca Pudding at the back there!).

was not one for "Goddess" like performances of traditional song

I didn't mean her performance, I meant the reverence in which she's held.