Margaret Burke Sheridan

Sheridan had her early vocal training while at school at the Dominican Convent in Eccles Street, Dublin, with additional lessons from Vincent O'Brien.

With Marconi's help, she auditioned in 1916 for Alfredo Martino, a prominent singing teacher attached to the Teatro Costanzi, and she made her début there in January 1918 in Puccini's La Bohème.

[1] In July 1919 she appeared at the Royal Opera House (Covent Garden) in the title role in Iris by Pietro Mascagni.

Bríd Mahon, in her 1998 book While Green Grass Grows, p. 123, states that: "It was rumoured that an Italian whose overtures she had rejected had blown his brains out in a box in La Scala, Milan, while she was on stage and that after the tragedy she never sang in public again."

She also recorded various Irish traditional song arrangements by Balfe, John William Glover, Thomas Moore and others.