Margaret Molloy
Margaret Molloy is author of Agnes Morrogh- Bernard: Foundress of Foxford Woollen Mills published in 2014 and Martin Sheridan: Mayo's Famous Son 1881-1918 (2018). She is the co-author with Professor Peter Reid, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen of Church and State: Censorship and Political Interference in the Libraries of County Mayo in The Journal of Library and Information History in May 2013 [Online] at www.tandfonline.com. She was part of the editorial committee for the following publications: Bohola Its History and its People, 1992 and The Martin Sheridan Story, 1998. Her work is mainly historical; however, she has written for children, and The Brown Donkey has been recently published. Articles have been published in national newspapers and magazines: Ireland's Own, Ireland's Eye, The Irish Times, The Irish Catholic, The Western People, The Mayo News and The Connaught Telegraph.
Margaret holds a B A in English and History, and an MSc in Library and Information Studies. She works in Ballina Library, Co. Mayo and she lives in Bohola, in Co. Mayo.