Background
McNulty was born in Dublin and was blinded by an accident at age 4.
McNulty was born in Dublin and was blinded by an accident at age 4.
And attended Saint Mary"s School for the Blind, studied at the Royal Irish Academy of and received a Bachelor of Music (Bachelor of degree) from University College Dublin in 1944.
He was organist and choirmaster at Saint John"s Augustinian Church, Dublin, from 1939, where he founded a boys choir, the Austin Singers. From 1967 he took on an additional appointment as organist of the newly opened Church of the Holy Spirit, Ballyroan. By external examination he also became a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, London (1942).
His organ recitals were with regularity broadcast on RTÉ and Vatican Radio.
lieutenant is also for his compositions of sacred choral music, synthesizing elements of Irish folk song, for which McNulty was knighted to the Order of Saint Gregory by Pope John Paul II in 1984. He died in Dublin.