Life
1922- ; b. 14 July; as schoolchild, wrote script on history and music
of Co. Cork for Radio Éireann; subsequently contrib. some 500 scripts
to Radio Éireann, and others to BBC; joined Irish Folklore Commission,
1949, upon its demise tranferring to Dept. of Irish Folklore, University
College, Dublin as senior research lecturer; has taught at University
of California at Berkeley and at Los Angeles; Sunday Express Irish
theatre critic in 1950s; Women’s Ed., Sunday Press, 1960-70;
issued A Time to Love (1992), fictional biography of Peg Woffington;
also children’s stories The Search for the Tinker Chief (1968),
a best seller optioned by Disney. DIL/2
Works
Fiction, A Time to Love (Dublin: Poolbeg 1992); Devorgilla
(Dublin: Poolbeg 1994). Children's Fiction, The Search for the
Tinker Chief (Dublin: Allen Figgis 1968);The Wonders Tales of Ireland (Dublin: Folens 1975); Miscellaneous, Irish Dress (Dublin:
Folens 1976); Irish Food (Dublin: Folens 1976); ed. My Favourite
Stories of Ireland (Guildford: Lutterworth 1977); Irish Folklore (Tallaght: Folens 1981).
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