"Incidentally, it's not the first time you've dragged in the old canard about Steeleye breaking into an Irish reel in the middle of their desecration of Long Lankin. Well, suck it for yourself –http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSUH6YPM9oI - and see that they do no such thing."

Well, they do go rather abruptly into a 6:8 section (albeit using a melody with no obvious Irish connection) at 3'18". Too jolly by half. Not their finest hour, if you ask me (that was of course 'King Henry').