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Bríd Mahon was born on 14 July, 1918 in California, is a writer. Discover Bríd Mahon's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is She in this year and how She spends money? Also learn how She earned most of networth at the age of 90 years old?

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Occupation folklorist, writer
Age 90 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 14 July, 1918
Birthday 14 July
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Date of death (2008-02-20) Dublin, Ireland
Died Place Dublin, Ireland
Nationality United States

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2008

Mahon died at Leopardstown Park Hospital in Dublin on 20 February 2008 and was buried the following day at Mount Jerome Cemetery and Crematorium.

1998

In 1998, Mahon wrote her memoirs, including many anecdotes about the work of the Commission. One story she relayed involved Walt Disney. In 1946, he contacted the Commission seeking ideas for a story on leprechauns. Though Séamus Ó Duilearga, director of the Commission, tried to interest Disney in more heroic folk figures, he was unsuccessful. In 1959, Darby O'Gill and the Little People premiered in Dublin and members of the commission who had helped gather information for the film, including Mahon, were given tickets to attend. Later, when Mahon's book The Search for the Tinker Chief (Figgis, 1968) became a juvenile fiction bestseller, it was optioned by Disney.

1991

Mahon's studies on food evaluated not only the history of what was eaten in Ireland, but also the superstitions surrounding various festivals and food. Author Kate Cone, described Mahon's 1991 book, Land of Milk and Honey: The Story of Traditional Irish Food and Drink as the "seminal book on the history of Irish food" and Rhona Richman Kenneally, former Chair of Concordia University's Department of Design and Computation Arts called Mahon one of the "trailblazing" experts on Irish Food. The book provided insight into how rich and varied the diet of common people was in the 17th century before industrialisation and land reforms brought about the Great Famine.

1959

The staff of the Commission were not considered civil service employees until a government ruling in 1959. Mahon was appointed to serve as the negotiator on behalf of the Commission's staff with the Department of Education and Finance to resolve their grievances on pay and pensions. The negotiations to convert the staff to civil servants was not concluded until 1965 and pension negotiations were on-going throughout the decade. Mahon served as the office manager, though from 1966 her title was "Secretary and Publications Officer", of the Commission until it was disbanded in 1970. In 1971, she was appointed as a senior research lecturer at the University College Dublin in the Folklore Department. Mahon later taught at University of California at both the Berkeley and Los Angeles campuses.

1939

On 9 October 1939, Mahon was hired as a temporary stenographer and typist for the Irish Folklore Commission. Because women were required to be unmarried to work at the Commission, none of the full-time collectors were women and their opportunities were limited to administrative work. In 1947, she took over the bookkeeping and much of the office work from the Commission office manager, Máire MacNeill, to enable MacNeill to devote more time to cataloguing. Two years later, when MacNeill terminated her employment with the Commission to marry, Mahon was appointed as the office manager of the project. Though the Commission restricted private publishing activities of the staff and discouraged their participation in media activities, Mahon conducted her own research in the archives of the Commission and published articles and books on Irish clothing and food, earning a reputation as a Journalist. In the 1950s, in addition to her work on the commission, Mahon worked as a theatre critic. Throughout the 1960s, she served as the women's editor of The Sunday Press. She interviewed The Beatles when they came to play their only Dublin concert at The Adelphi Cinema on Middle Abbey Street in 1963. On a trip to California in 1968, she met and talked with Robert F. Kennedy in Los Angeles airport as he arrived to address his supporters and she was en route back to Ireland. As her flight from the USA approached Dublin, the pilot announced that Kennedy had been assassinated. Mahon was rushed to the offices of The Sunday Press and wrote the front page story for the next day edition of the paper. Through her work in the Folklore Commission and The Sunday Press, she befriended J. R. R. Tolkien on some of his trips to Dublin, famously introducing him to fish and chips soaked in vinegar.

1918

Bríd Mahon (Irish: Bríd Ní Mhathúna, 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.

Bríd Mahon was born on 14 July 1918. During her primary schooling in Dublin she began writing and submitted a script to Radio Éireann on the history and music of Cork. Subsequently, she submitted over 500 radio scripts to Radio Éireann and also wrote radio scripts for the BBC.