Interesting,.
In Bert Lloyds Folksong in England, Lloyd described Sharp as a socialist. but elsewhere I have read[ not Dave Harker], that Sharp disapproved of his sister being a suffragette.
If Sharp was a socialist, he would have surely approved of universal suffrage.
He may or may not have been a member of the labour party[ that doesnt make him anymore of a socialist than BLAIR].
But if he disapproved of the suffragette movement,then he does appear to have been Right wing.
to JIM CARROLL I was watching a programme last night, about a woman singer from Tyrone, Sarah Anne O Neill. It seems she was originally recorded by a Waterford man who wandered into the pub and taped away, and then subsequently came back with Sean o Boyle and informed her she was singing traditional songs, So now HERE is evidence OF someone who collected like that.[ POSSIBLY not the only one.]