Re last but one post: in interests of accuracy, the great Irish tenor whose work covered the spectrum from folk to grand opera was called John MacCormack [not -ick]. He was, among other things, a Papal Count -- google 'Papal Nobility' -- so is often called 'Count', esp by other Irish singers... I am reminded of the time the great Dublin street singer Margaret Barry, who rose to prominence on the 1950s London folk scene, was asked in an interview by Karl Dallas where she had learned her influential version of She Moved Through The Fair -- was it, he enquired, from family, or from other singers while travelling on the road? "Oh no," she replied blandly, "I got it off a gramophone record by Count John MacCormack".

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