It's on hold, like everything else at present
Our archive exceeds far more than 200 reels - that's just the Critics Group meetings
The actual connection goes into the thousands - our own personal collection is around 1000, then there is tha material people have put in our care
It's taken ten years to index this material and put it into a usable order (nearly)
What I have to find immediately from NSA is whether they are going to use the interviews
The songs are repeated, of course, but that was deliberate - if you are going to go beyond head-hunting, each different performance of a song contains information, especially with singers like Mary Delaney

AS far as getting help, I can't see a problem in Ireland
There is a growing interest in songs, which looks as if it iht catch up with the music
The Clare Library Website has drawn youngsters in - we keep being contacted by them
Limerick Uni once mooted the idea o a Traveller's web-site - they've already doe magnificent work with musicians
The articles I put up on Academia, which I did for diversion, have 'taken feet of their own'
In preparing the next, on Local Songs, I contacted local history groups - there might be a possibility of publishing a collection of local songs and republishing an important long-out-of-print one - more hands and heads
I wouldn't know where to start in th UK - I can't see the beginnings of a re-stirring over there
That we should all live long enough eh ?
Jim