Mazurkas seem to have caught on in Ireland -particularly in the North- far more than they ever did in England. A lot of the older players made a fairly strict distinction between the Polka, the Mazurka, and the "Polka Mazurk", which I think was to do with the stepping of the dance involved and the way it was accompanied (rather than, particularly, what tunes were used) but the tape with the info is still in a box somewhere, I'm afraid. I'm fairly sure that a form of the Varsovianna was used for the Polka Mazurk[a].

We used to play a set of three or four mazurkas (all but one Irish) around sessions in Sheffield, one of which I learned from a Radio3 programme. When Altan recorded the same tune I rather gave up on it, as everybody learned their arrangement and thought I must be playing it in the wrong key...

Mazurkas rather dropped out of sight here for a few years, but are now back again. They seem to be mostly French now, though, that being the fashion. I've only once played a mazurka set for Polish dancing, and it was completely different from the style we're used to in Britain and Ireland. We had to be told what to do quite specifically; and, since it was a Polish event, we had three people telling us how to play it, and they all disagreed with each other about everything. I think they were all the Bride's Uncle...