I got summarily booted off 2 Facebook pages for "stirring it" - Scottish Folk Music" and "Scottish Songwriters and Friends ( friends....really??) ......for daring to supply the correct composer for one of the songs on YouTube that someone had posted and incorrectly attributed to another author! Of course, I wrote a song about it.

The Irish songs thing is possibly also perpetuated by the collection of 4 books that you can buy over here entitled "Songs and Ballads sung in the pubs of Ireland", which do contain quite a few Scottish and English ones too. The book title is, I suppose, accurate, but have heard friends refer to the books as "my Irish songbooks"