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She began her career as a child, writing a radio script on the history and music of County Cork for Radio \u00c9ireann. 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.Early life[edit]Br\u00edd Mahon was born on 14 July 1918. During her primary schooling in Dublin she began writing and submitted a script to Radio \u00c9ireann on the history and music of Cork. Subsequently, she submitted over 500 radio scripts to Radio \u00c9ireann and also wrote radio scripts for the BBC.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, M\u00e1ire 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.Her sister, Brenda Maguire, was an author, journalist and teacher, and wrote the agony column for the other main Irish Sunday paper, The Sunday Independent.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.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.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 S\u00e9amus \u00d3 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.Death and legacy[edit]Mahon died at Leopardstown Park Hospital in Dublin on 20 February 2008 and was buried the following day at Mount Jerome Cemetery and Crematorium.Selected works[edit]Fiction[edit]Non-fiction[edit]References[edit]Citations[edit]Bibliography[edit]Beiner, Guy (2007). Remembering the Year of the French: Irish Folk History and Social Memory. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN\u00a0978-0-299-21824-9.Braon\u00e1in, Anra\u00ed \u00d3 (2008). “In Memoriam: Br\u00edd Mahon”. B\u00e9aloideas (in Irish). Dublin: Folklore of Ireland Society: 276. ISSN\u00a00332-270X.Briody, M\u00edche\u00e1l (2008). The Irish Folklore Commission 1935\u20131970: History, Ideology, Methodology (PDF). Vol.\u00a017. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura. doi:10.21435\/sff.17. ISBN\u00a0978-951-746-947-0.Cone, Kate (17 March 2014). “Debate This: Is Corned Beef and Cabbage Irish or American?”. Bangor Daily News. Bangor, Maine. Archived from the original on 19 November 2019. Retrieved 7 March 2020.Kenneally, Rhona Richman (2018). “Irish Food: A First Course”. The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies. Montreal, Quebec: School of Canadian Irish Studies at Concordia University. 41 (The Food Issue): 17\u201330. ISSN\u00a00703-1459. JSTOR\u00a026435219.Kruse, Jillian (2015). The Folklore of Ireland Is Behind Those Hills: The Irish Folklore Commission 1935\u20131970 (master’s). Rennes, France: University of Rennes 2. Peer review performed by The Swedish Connection.{{cite thesis}}:  CS1 maint: postscript (link)Lysaght, Patricia (2002). “Writing Oral Traditions”.  In Bourke, Angela;  et\u00a0al. (eds.). The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing. Vol.\u00a04: Irish Women’s Writing and Traditions. Washington Square, New York: New York University Press. pp.\u00a01433\u20131457. ISBN\u00a0978-0-8147-9906-2.McGuiness, Katy (27 October 2018). “Irish Halloween Food Traditions: Where Did Barmbrack Get Its Name, and Why Is Champ Important?”. Irish Independent. Dublin. Archived from the original on 1 March 2020. Retrieved 7 March 2020.McKenna, John (15 March 2008). “Eating in Ireland”. Epicurious. New York City. Archived from the original on 23 June 2016. Retrieved 7 March 2020.Redmond, Lucille (November 1998). “Thought for Food”. Books Ireland. Dublin: Wordwell Ltd. (217): 310\u2013311. doi:10.2307\/20623752. ISSN\u00a00376-6039. JSTOR\u00a020623752.Stewart, Bruce (2011). “Brid Mahon”. Ricorso. Natal, Brazil: Bruce Stewart. Archived from the original on 23 March 2016. Retrieved 6 March 2020. Bruce Stewart is an academic who has taught at the University of Ulster and at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte and served as an assistant editor of the Oxford Companion to Irish Literature{{cite web}}:  CS1 maint: postscript (link)“Harvesting the Memories”. The Irish Times. Dublin, Ireland. 17 February 1998. Archived from the original on 8 March 2020. Retrieved 8 March 2020.“Mahon, Br\u00edd\u00a0: Death notice”. The Irish Times. Dublin, Ireland. 22 February 2008. Archived from the original on 6 March 2020. Retrieved 6 March 2020.“Rhona Richman Kenneally, PhD (Architecture)”. Montreal, Quebec: Concordia University. 2017. Archived from the original on 7 March 2020. Retrieved 7 March 2020.  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