Madam, - In Eugene McEldowney's enjoyable Irishman's Diary of May 17th on the pre-Troubles folk music scene in Belfast, he mentions the problem of defining the folk genre. The great Louis Armstrong put it like this: "All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song." Good luck to Belfast folk. - Yours, etc,
JOHN MORAN, Aungier Street, Dublin 2.