I think I see the point Jim Carroll is making, Brid O'Donoghue (& Edel Fox) are just carying on the continuity of the style of playing which the older generation of players like Kitty Hayes had (the West Clare style).

With so many modern influences, not least of which is the speed with which everything seems to happen these days - old local styles, (whether it be music, language, habits, traditions, customs), can, and do, get very rapidly lost, sometimes forever!

The importance of this cannot be over-emphasised.