Thanks so much Felipa. I've been searching in English and had missed the Irish language songs completely, and I had not found the Mudcat thread about songs in Irish about priests. There are some lively themes there that will make it into the paper.

I'm going to approach the Irish language songs as if they fall in the early part of my survey--early 1800s or before, when the language was still vital. Is that a reasonable assumption do you think?