Not quite sure what you're getting at, Nick.
Sure its good - as is the cante hondo from Andalusia and as you say sean nos from Ireland - but honestly where do we fit in?

How many people sat behind their spinning wheels are going to relate to it. She's a pretty lady but would that song coming out of a radio have many listeners?

Whereas I can name half a dozen great song writers writing about their lives on the streets of England whose songs never got to grace the stage of our big folk festivals or rated a play on folk radio in their lifetimes. Songs which were comprehensible and entertaining to a room full of people interested enough to go to a folkclub.
And Backwoodsman could as well - cos I've heard him sing such songs.   If I'm supposed to be swooning with post colonial guilt, I'm not.