well, I just read through the entire thread again, though without yet looking into all the blue clicky things, which I will do, and I must say it has been a fairly civil discussion, compared to many out and out 'Cat fights that I have witnessed. I don't quite think it rises to the level of an example of music thread contentiousness, (though maybe toward the end of the thread a little). I am not angry about any of it, just was wondering what the deal was. It seems like a few posters tried to put words in my mouth and skew it a bit, I guess in an attempt to understand where I was coming from. The title of the thread WAS designed to get a read from people at least, not meant to incite, or indict, and not angry. I didn't say the DT was worthless, I asked with a question mark what is its worth? What is it for? got some reasonable responses, then seemed to be attacked for raising the question. Never said the DT was a piece of anything, don't care about things having my name attached to anything, it's not my information, I enjoy sharing info and working with others. Often proofread mss. for others, not because I like finding fault with thier work, but because it helps to have fresh eyes and people are generaly grateful that what they put before the public is what they meant it to be, correct and complete, and not full of mistakes that should have been easily caught & corrected. I would still like to see the DT rise to a higher level of accuracy and be more of a reliable authority for people's uses than it is. I appreciate that many people are working in that direction, or there would be no need for new editions, just additional song entries. The DT Study Threads are a great innovation, but I guess I thought they would be used more immediately to make corrections, hopefully they will be used at some time in that regard. That said, I apologize to any and all for what they perceived my tone to be, though it was never intended to offend. In my haste in writing my last post I inadvertently wrote 'James Kavanagh' when I meant 'Peter Kavanagh', James is an actor who sang the Sean O'Casey material on Paul Brady's 'Green Crow Caws', which I have aired recently on the radio. That is how some errors are made. Haste to get something done. But then corrected when discovered.

Thanks again to Dick & Susan & Joe for all their hard work, but hoping some constructive criticism and helpful suggestions, and corrections are acceptable as offered toward the same goal.