"Well a grim nationalistic MOR pastiche of it anyway"
Do you have any evidence for this?
You seem to be totally incapable of accepting that anything positive can be happening with traditional music without your putting your own nasty twist to it.
The Willie Clancy Summer School, has been the greatest single influence on Irish music was started forty years ago with tutors and lecturers such as Seamus Ennis, Tom McCarthy, Bobby Casey, Breandan McGlinchy... and a whole host of earlier generation musicians who taught youngsters., Breathnach, Peoples, Glackin, John Kelly, Johnny O'Leary.   
Tom McCarthy's family is now into the third generation of playing superb Irish music and this town has young people who cut their teeth here are now teachers themselves.
Willie Clancy, who you claim to admire, has been a major influence in the development here.
You strike me as one of the most unpleasent (begrudgers is the word they use here) when it comes to giving credit, in this case to many thousands of kids who have taken up traditional music and are making it work using traditional forms.
I look forward to an explanation (in plain English if possible) as to why you describe what is happening as "a grim nationalistic MOR pastiche" othewise, I serious suggest you seek an attitude implant, the present one seems to have deteriorated beyond salvation.
Personally, I put it down to a bad case of inferiority complex - you really do come over as a thoroughly nasty piece of work.
Jim Carroll