No Bryan, I no longer know that there is a large enough interest in the material we have recorded to warrant the time necessary in getting it into shape.
I have been aware of this since the days when Pat was organising bookings for Walter Pardon and constantly being told by club orgaisers "Oh, we don't book singers like that; we only cater for the modern stuff". Arguments like this only serve to reinforce those impressions.
I am now past my mid-sixties and have to decide the best use I can make of my remaining years. I have no hestitation in taking our Irish material to an audience I know to be able to make good use of it. Our English material is a totally different matter.
Those few who are interested in this are, and have been for over 20 years, perfectly free to access this in the various public archives it is deposited in.
It has nothing whatever to do with the '1954 definition' as you, once again so misleadingly - well - mislead.
"the overwhelming majority of people out there using the English language"
No Rosie, the majority of the people out there don't give a toss one way or another - we and folk don't impinge on their lives in any way.
The use and misuse of the language is confined to the folk world.
Jim Carroll