Couldnt agree more, McGrath. The laborious attempts to invent an "Irish folk music", now being mirrored by attempts to figure out what "English folk music" is meant to sound like, is a case in point. They talk differently in Cork and Antrim, and in Cumberland and Kent. Long live regionalism. Though that might be a bit too broad: villagism, perhaps?
   Personally, I havent the slightest idea if I am English or not, and I have no particular desire to define myself in those terms.