Dina Copeman recalls playing piano live on the first night of Ireland's radio service 2RN.
On 1 January 1926 2RN, Ireland's first radio station, began broadcasting. Pianist Dina Copeman was one of the musicians booked to perform during the opening broadcast.
She recalls that her nerves on the night were not helped by the darkness of the studio and the presence of Harol R White, known as HRW the music critic.
When I got to the place, it didn't look like what might be a studio. It was all very ramshackle... and dark and dismal.
She does not remember thinking about people who were listening to the broadcast because of the presence of a music critic in the room with her.
'Forty Years of Irish Radio' broadcast on 2 December 1966. The presenter is PP Maguire.
The photograph accompanying this clip shows Jimmy Mahon at the control desk in the control room of 2RN in Little Denmark Street, Dublin.
