GUEST ...

Maginn, you, me and every other bugger reading these pages knows that MacColl wasn't Irish! Big deal! I reckon that Maginn's motivation to photograph MacColl was the fact that as a leading light in the folk revival of the time, his influence was felt as keenly in Ireland as it was in other parts of Western Europe - (witness the fact that you still can't go to a session anywhere in Ireland without someone belting out Dirty Old Town; witness the fact that without MacColl - and Dominic Behan, of course - the Dubliners' repertoire would have been decimated, etc.).

If Jim had subtitled his site "The Major Figures in Irish Traditional Music - plus Ewan MacColl and his missus and a few other people" would that have "kep' you from nebbin', there"?