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Thread #164332 Message #3931415
Posted By: Richard Mellish
17-Jun-18 - 09:07 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Child Ballads in Ireland
Subject: RE: Origins: Child Ballads in Ireland
Vic has a good argument there.
On the other hand, the Irish and English languages have co-existed in Ireland for several centuries, albeit for much of the time not at all harmoniously. Quite a few songs in Irish have been translated into English and we might expect some to have gone the other way. So perhaps a ballad in Irish deserves to be included if it looks like a translation from a Child ballad, but not if it looks like an independent telling of the same story, and not if it tells a related but different story.
Then again, "a related but different story" applies to some versions in English.