Bree O'Mara

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Bridgid "Bree" O'Mara (* 4. July 1968 in Durban , † 12. May 2010 ) was an Irish - South African writer , ballet dancer , television producer and flight attendant that the crash of the Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 died .

Life

O'Mara was born in Durban to Irish parents and held an Irish passport. Her uncle was the mercenary and book author Mike Hoare .

O'Mara attended the Maris Stella School in the early 1980s. After O'Mara started as a ballet dancer, she became a flight attendant for Gulf Air and then a video producer in the Gulf States. After traveling through Canada and the United States , where she lived briefly in Elkins, West Virginia , she lived in London in the 1990s . She lived in Northamptonshire in the early 2000s . In 2003 she worked as a volunteer for the aid organization Mondo Challenge in Tanzania . In 2005 she returned to her parents' home in South Africa, where she met her future husband, chef Christopher Leach, on the flight .

Most recently she lived with her husband on the banks of the Hartbeespoort reservoir in the northwest province . She wrote the novel Nigel Watson, Superhero, about her uncle's adventures as a mercenary in Congo .

O'Mara died on the trip to London, where she wanted to speak to her publishers about the publication of her second novel. She previously had to cancel an appearance at the London Book Fair after flights to England were canceled due to the Eyjafjallajökull outbreak.

Works

  • Home Affairs. 30 ° South Publishers, Johannesburg 2007. (Novel, Citizen Book Prize winner)
  • Nigel Watson, superhero. (Novel, planned for 2010, but not published)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Book SA - News: Irish-South African Author Bree O'Mara Killed in Libya Plane Crash. ( Memento from May 27, 2010 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ^ The Irish author who died in Libyan air crash - after delaying her flight to Britain due to volcanic ash chaos In: The Daily Mail.
  3. ^ South Africans killed in crash that claimed more than 100 lives on security.co.za
  4. ↑ News - Africa: [PIC] Lone survivor shouts 'Holland, Holland'.
  5. ^ SA relatives of crash victims fly to Libya
  6. ↑ Irish author Bree O'Mara dies in Libya plane crash. The Guardian, May 13, 2000, accessed April 2, 2018
  7. ↑ South Africa author Bree O'Mara dies in Libya crash
personal data
SURNAME O'Mara, Bree
ALTERNATIVE NAMES O'Mara, Bridgid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish-South African writer, ballet dancer, TV producer and flight attendant
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Durban
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 2010