RA equates Cecil Sharp with the ENGLISH folk Dance & Song Society (RA's emphasis on the first word). In Sharp's days there were two Societies - The Folk Song Society and the English Folk Dance Society. It was never the English Folk Song Society. Many members of the Folk Song Society were interested in other song traditions - not just in English song traditions, and over the yeas their Folk Song Journal published songs from Ireland and Scotland, as well as from England. The two Societies merged to form the English Folk Dance and Song Society in the early 1930's, several years after Cecil Sharps' death.