C`mon, what the hell more proof do you need, sure oul Giraldus Cambrensis whilst castigating the Irish for being a bunch of bog-trotters, did give them great praise for their music. And yes the music was there a long time before that. The Irish Saint Columbanus was said to have composed a song on his voyage along the Rhine whilst converting the heathen Germanic Tribes, and he was around in the Seventh Century. Ard Mhacha,