Brenny Abu!
Jeeze! It is great to see someone take the time to put a scholarly history up in answer to the often expressed opinion without fact. Now after this heroic effort, lets not sink into name calling all around Bagpus, Wolfgang, Brenny, lets all have a shake and have a good think about things. We are at a liminal point in Irish history, and there is going to be changes one way or the other. Let's hope that the traditional music community will keep to its historic role of being the informers of change, and to do so, we need the input of those who will take the time to do the hard work Brenny has done, and we even need a bit of the sand paper of Conrad to expose the puss and infection. No offence Conrad - but I do think of Brendan as the anti-biotic (anti bigotic?) to the seeping wound of Orange hatred.
Slan agus go raith maith agut, Brenny
Larry