Also, if we take what he says in the interview you linked to at face value, WMT isn't a plagiarised variant of TBOB as is generally thought, but rather is a variant of of TBOB that has evolved naturally in Ireland as part of the folk process.

Does anyone else have any insights into this? Or into where the tune of WMT might have come from, given that it (if the above discussions are correct) it is too different from the original tune of TBOB to have evolved from it?

Dave