Nice to hear from you Ian - I'm Mark Carmichael and I've visited a couple of times with your Mum.
It was pleasing to realise that james was held in such high regard.
I've contacted RTE to find out if there are any archive radio recording, as I know they did at least one broadcast from there.
Rose Murray,his niece is still playing traditional music at the feis, and I've asked her to to make me a cd .
James greatly influenced her and taught her many tunes.
James and Bridie were inseperable, and I was saddened to hear of her passing, she was a great ladie, and backed James in all he did.
I carry on the music tradition, but in a different form - I write and sing Gospel songs, some of them in the Ulster Scots dialect.
I owe my interest in music to my father and James - like you as a lad sitting at the feet of masters of their craft.
(I have some songs on www.soundclick.com/mark1000 if you ever get the chance to look it up.)