Sounds fascinating Nick - love to hear some of them
Tom Munnellyy recorded John Reilly singing 'Lord Gregory' - only he called it 'Lord Googley' - that sort of thing was always happening

I tend to think that the Irish and Scots Traveller repertoire survived better than the English one - Mike Yates once suggested it did when reviewed out 'From Puck to Appleby'
He made the point that most of our songs were full versions

MacColl was criticised for discussing what he believed was the breakdown in style in 'The Song Carriers' - I'm not sure I'd have done it but I don't think he said anything that wasn't true
At least he had the tact not to name the Traveller, but unfortunately his critics did so at a later date and said they laughed at the singing when they heard it - that was not Ewan's intention; it was an honest attempt to analyse what had happened to the style

I have set up a PCloud file in order to distribute some of our archive to those who would lke to use it - it has a considerable Traveller folder (Irish and Scots so far)
If you, or anybody would like to access it, you are welcome - you'll have to let me have an e-amil address though
Thanks again for your input to all this
I have more to say, but I'll leave it to later
Jim