"I believe the original or at least earliest is Irish, but not the Republic."
Steve
To repeat what I have said many, many time, you, I or anybody have no idea of what is "the original or at least earliest".
You may have traced the earliest printed version, but our knowledge of the oral tradition only goes back to the end of the nineteenth century so unless somebody has come down from a mountain with a couple of stone tablets under his arm and handed you information the rest of us aren't privy to - you know no more than the rest of us.
Sorry 'bout that!
Jim Carroll