I think foLk music gets a bad press in England, Be cause comedians like morecambe and wise kenneth williams the two ronnies take the mickey out of it and perpetrate the nonny nony myth, they have had access to millions of viewers in the past to indulge in a campaign that has made the noony nonny picture firm in peoples minds, in ireland it has in the past been part of a young countries campaign to establish a folk culture, kind of intertwined with nationalism at times and the historical struggle against british rule