JTT - From what I can see about Henebry in the linked articles, he disagreed strongly with Pearse about using Irish traditional materials as a tool in the nationalist cause, but I don't know whether this was part of a wider debate or not.

Joe - It is good to hear from you. The Irish Traditional Music Archive is a superb resource which gets better every time I return to it. Have you met Grace Toland, librarian at ITMA (and a lovely singer too)? She is passionate about making materials widely available online.

The Mudcat once had a useful guide to internet resources, but it was hard work to keep up to date as websites disappeared while new ones were added, and it also grew quite cumbersome as people added their own favourite music sites. It would be an idea to have a sort of new master index to include recent developments like The Full English Digital Archive, as well as the wonderful Tobar an Dualchais.

Matthew