Questions for Suibhne: isn't that 1908 recording which you lionise also, most likely, a development of earlier sung versions ? That this particular version was, very fortunately, recorded, hardly makes it "pure", does it ? I enjoy your posts in here and like your broad-mindedness and, in most cases, healthy disrespect for notions about 'purity' - so why does this version get held up as a yardstick for all others ? That smacks of a kind of absolutism (if that's the word I want) which seems to me to contradict your other arguments. Just wondering !