Like his father, he was often called upon to do death masks, and did so for Brendan Behan in 1964.
[2] The entire family (including several brothers) worked in their celebrated sculpture yard on Berkeley Road, in Phibsborough.
[3] James Power studied sculpture under Oliver Sheppard and painting under Sean Keating at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin.
[2] His works were included in the Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition in 1941 and 1942[7] and he was a frequent exhibitor at the Oireachtas na Gaeilge.
[2] In 1956, after several delays he finished sculpting the 1916 memorial in Limerick from a design first proposed in 1936 by his father Albert.