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Strong feature and copywriting skills, with a specialism in social history and storytelling skills.

Marsha O'Mahony , Park Street, United Kingdom


Experience

15 - 24 years

Other titles

Contributing researcher writer and interviewer Lead oral historian/author of the Gwent Living Levels Project Chief Oral Historian + 3 more

Skills

Project Manager Report writer Mac Satisfaction Communication + 12 more

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I am the seventh child of nine born to a large Irish family. When I was 21 I decided it was time to see a bit of the world, and set off, not returning for another four years. In that time, I filled shampoo bottles in Sydney, waitressed in a cocktail bar in an opal mining town, attempted teaching English in far-flung places like Hong Kong, Japan and Nepal, and even ended up in Tashkent on my way back to England, courtesy of Aeroflot.

I studied Anthropology & Politics at University, gaining a First-Class Honours and First Prize and publication of my dissertation, an examination of the Burakumin, Japan’s ‘underclass’. I was set on the path of PhD glory, when I won a scholarship to study for my MA in Anthropology & Development.

I am currently project managing an oral history of the Gwent Levels for the Living Levels Partnership. Alongside this, I have been commissioned to write a book on the social history of the hop, which is due to be launched in October 2020. But there is more. I settled in Herefordshire in 1996 and I have two children, who have now flown the nest. I have worked as a reporter on weekly and daily newspapers, am author and contributing writer to a number of books, a commissioned memoir writer, report writer, blogger, chief researcher and oral historian on a series of documentary film projects, one-time community reporter for BBC Radio Wales, reminiscence session worker, freelance journalist with features in national publications (The Guardian, The Field, BBC Countryfile), and a ‘performed’ playwright. I have also led and designed the Heritage Lottery-funded project, ‘River Voices: Extraordinary Stories from the Wye’, and appeared with the book of the same title at Hay Literary Festival 2019.
In the course of my career, I have interviewed a huge number of people, from farmers, MPs, teenage mothers, poachers, bailiffs, nuns, and the last man born on St Kilda!

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United Kingdom

Language

English
Fluently

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