Bríd Mahon
Irish writer, journalist and folklorist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bríd Mahon (Irish: Bríd Ní Mhathúna,[1] 14 July 1918 – 20 February 2008) was an Irish folklorist and writer, focussing on traditional food and clothing. She began her career as a child, writing a radio script on the history and music of County Cork for Radio Éireann. Hired to work as a typist for the Irish Folklore Commission, she remained there until its disbanding in 1970, simultaneously developing a second career as a journalist, serving as a theatre critic and writing the women's page for The Sunday Press. Her best-selling juvenile fiction, The Search for the Tinker Chief, was optioned by Disney. Though she was discouraged from publishing information collected on Irish folklore, she conducted research and published non-fiction works on Irish clothing and food, later working as a folklorist and lecturer at University College Dublin and then teaching at the University of California.
Bríd Mahon | |
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Bríd Ní Mhathúna | |
Born | (1918-07-14)14 July 1918 |
Died | 20 February 2008(2008-02-20) (aged 89) Dublin, Ireland |
Nationality | Irish |
Occupation(s) | folklorist, writer |