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SHAMROCK ReCORDS: THe FIRST IRISH-MADe COMMeRCIAL DISCS 1928–1930
From evening Herald, Dublin, 17 July 1929. Hugh Patrick Fay is third from
left, holding a record.
The gramophone critic of the magazine Ireland’s Own also visited
the plant in the same month and saw disc manufacturing in
progress. 53 This evidence is confirmed by a detailed advertisement
from Dockrell Ltd, the auctioneers handling the company’s liquidation
sale in February 1930. As well as 10,000 double-sided 10" discs
comprising 23 different records, 24 mother matrices by edison Bell
Ltd, 15 master waxes, and a variety of generators, vats, chemicals,
boxes and crates, the sale included hydraulic presses and pumps,
copper anodes, edging and grinding machines, and a range of
ancillary manufacturing equipment. 54
53
Ireland’s Own, Wexford, 20 July 1929: 62.
54
The Irish Times, 22 Feb. 1930: 16.