Re the recordings of Jim Carmichael which were said to have been made by the BBC. I've checked with the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library and with the Irish Traditional Music Archive. Neither establishment has any listing of any BBC or RTÉ recordings made by JC.

If he was recorded, then, it means the recordist may have been a BBC employee, but presumably must have been somebody acting in a private capacity.

I'll keep making enquiries and hope something turns up. But I'm beginning to feel like a cross between Willie the Wisp and the Maltese Falcon.