Changed days at Oldbridge
IN our Down the Years section this week, we have a piece on Michael O’Brien who was making Boyne Coracles back in 1938.
One day Dr. Mahr from the National Museum visited his cottage beside the river at Oldbridge to find out about his story.
He said: ‘’ Ho came in here with some kind of a machine called a dictaphone and put it on the table. Then when I had told him all about coracles and how to make them he twisted something on the side of the machine, and told me to sit down.
‘In a few seconds the thing began to talk to us, and it told us all I was after saying about the coracle. Then a few days later he brought me up to Dublin and showed me a picture of myself making the coracle from the very beginning to tho very end.
‘Bedads, young man,” concluded Mr. O’Brien, “you’d want to mind what you’d be saying and doing those days with all the quare machines that’s going.”
Imagine Michael in today’s world.....