Jim Livingstone is the only surviving son of Bridie Gallagher. A qualified psychologist, he retired in 2012 after a career in the Northern Ireland Civil Service. From 1974 he was his mother’s business manager and, for a period, musical director, until she retired in 2000. He toured with her in Ireland, Britain and North America and, more than anyone else, knew and understood the woman who won the hearts of millions of Irish people around the world during her fifty-year career.
