# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brid-mahon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:32:40.575Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brid-mahon"
name: "Bríd Mahon"
slug: "brid-mahon"
description: "Bríd Mahon 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."
tagline: "Irish writer, journalist and folklorist"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1922-07-14"
deathDate: "2008-02-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.88
  momentum:             6.476190476190476
  historical:           5.268322666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AC%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%A1%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%B9%E0%B5%8B%E0%B5%BA"
    title: "ബ്രിഡ് മഹോൺ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br%C3%ADd_Mahon"
    title: "Bríd Mahon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br%C3%ADd_Mahon"
    title: "Bríd Mahon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D1%96%D0%B4_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Брід Магон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AC%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%B9%E0%B1%8B%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D"
    title: "బ్రిడ్ మహోన్"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br%C3%ADd_Mahon"
    title: "Bríd Mahon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q87352129"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump