Bríd Mahon
Bríd Mahon (, 14 July 1918 – 20 February 2008) was an Irish folklorist and writer. 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 would remain at the commission until 1970. During her time at the commission, she developed a second career as a journalist, serving as a theatre critic and writing the women's page for "The Sunday Press". Her juvenile fiction, "The Search for the Tinker Chief", was optioned by Disney, after becoming a bestseller and though she was discouraged from publishing information collected on Irish folklore, she conducted research and published non-fiction works on Irish clothing and food. When the Commission was disbanded in 1970, Mahon worked as a folklorist and lecturer at University College Dublin and later taught at the University of California.
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University of California
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Bríd Mahon
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