School: Mullagh (C )
- Location:
- Mullagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Elizabeth Murchan
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- (continued from previous page)man. In fact, after eating them people become still more hungry.
- This evening, the 9th June '38, I had a great treat from the Wireless. A boy, from the very next house to mine, broadcasted a mouth-organ selection. I never heard such lovely music. He played Irish airs, principally. It was the best mouth-organ playing I ever heard.
His name is Dick McMahon. He is about twenty years of age and is a servant-boy with a priest up in Ballivor, in County Meath.
He broadcasted several times times before but was never so good as tonight.
You would imagine it was a piano-accordian - it was so loud. Some things he played made me want to dance. - Collector
- Mary Murchan
- Gender
- Female
