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Joan Brosnan Walsh (29 June 1938 – 20 December 2009) was a veteran Irish actress, best known for her long-running role as the character Mags Kelly on the Irish soap opera ''Fair City'', a role she had played for almost twenty years, from 18 September 1989 until her final screen appearance, 11 January 2009. Brosnan Walsh appeared in a number of films such as ''The Boxer'' and ''Fatal Inheritance''. She also worked as a costume designer.〔 She first worked for ACNielsen and Aer Lingus, the latter providing her with her first experience of acting. After nearly twenty years she announced her departure from ''Fair City'' in January 2009 after declaring that she had contracted motor neurone disease the previous year. ==Early life and career== Brosnan Walsh was born in 1938 in Greystones, County Wicklow. She had two other siblings but her mother died when she was young. An aunt raised her in Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin. Brosnan Walsh attended the Dominican Convent on Eccles Street before pursuing a career with market researcher ACNielsen. In 1956, she moved to Aer Lingus where she first experienced acting alongside the Metro Players, an amateur group of players which included her colleagues. Brosnan Walsh designed costumes for ''The Secret Marriage'' produced by the Irish National Opera in 1976. She acted with Mobile Theatre and Team Theatre Company throughout the 1970s and 1980s, appearing on stage in ''The Puppeteer from Lodz'' (1986), ''The Year of the Hiker at the Gaiety'' (1990) and ''The Mother'' (1997). She was member of the Backlane Painters, with whom she exhibited and sold her work.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joan Brosnan Walsh」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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