Ireland had the same disconnect between traditional and revival singing. There had never been a tradition of macho celeb showoffs doing a narrow repertoire of stereotyped rebel and drinking songs until the Clancys and the Dubliners came along, and the real traditional repertoire of Irish song (in either English or Irish) is not a lot more widely performed than pre-revival English song.

The same things happened on each side of the Irish Sea, with performers whose main interest was local traditional music and those whose main focus was mass-marketed American popular culture both labelling themselves as "folk". Ireland had a more active and diverse culture of instrumental dance music but that was about the only real difference.