Aine built the original Mudcat Songnook and tended it carefully for several years.

After she moved on to other interests, it stayed as it had been until the whole site where it had been hosted was being bought, and several steps were taken to prevent it from being lost. One was Joe's gradual effort to bring the songs in the Songbook over to our own repository gradually. ANother was some shuffle external to the Cat to re-host the whole of the old site on a new site., not sure by whom.

The page I created, called "Songs from the Mudcat Songbook" was just to provide links to recordings where they existed to songs that had been in the Mudcat Songbook.

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