I've shared my (English) music with some pretty good Irish musicians in my time, and most of them were simply enthused by the tunes, rather than sneering about middle class revivals."
Exactly Brian, furthermore I have shared mine with old traditional musicians, one of whom Jamesie Kingston with whom I gigged and busked many times, had english as well as Irish tunes in his repertoire, such as the bourton six.
what Steve cant seem to take in is that because i dislike some of a particular persons posts, that I dislike the person who posted the comments.
I do not.I cannot dislike someone I do not know.
I do dislike trolling flaming and bringing in irrelevant smears from other forums, I dislike boneheaded offensive ill thought out comments that are aimed at damaging a particular traditional music.
I am in favour of any kind of musical creativity.