What guest Luke McLean calls "cultural plagiarism" is what we usually call the folk process here.

I looked up the CD (rather a CD that combines 2 Tara vynil albums which is actually named "Sammy`s Bar") and Cyril Tawney is named as the author of the song. The places mentioned in the lyrics are "Quilltar" and "Quadar Quivar bay". The (German?) company might have spelled it wrong as there is another typo, but these names don`t sound irish to me. What exactly do you refer to, GSS?

On another occasion Marty Byrne told me about calling someone to ask permission to do one of his songs, so I assume that royalties were payed.