Monica Sheridan (29 January 1912 – 22 April 1993) was an Irish cookery expert, broadcaster, and journalist,[1] and Ireland's first celebrity chef.
She had six sisters, Kathleen, Agnes, Dympna, Eva, Eileen, and Mannix, and six brothers, Hugh, Gerald, Maurice, William, George, and Walter.
He worked with the Irish Tourist Board as an international publicity officer, as well as a published poet with a wide literary circle including Brian O'Nolan, Cyril Cusack, and Donagh MacDonagh with whom the Sheridans were close friends.
[1][2] Sheridan presented a live cookery series, Monica's kitchen, from 1962 when Telefís Éireann began broadcasting as Ireland's national television service.
She had a subversive disregard for the rules of cookery and how upper management of Telefís Éireann could regard her irreverent sense of humour and unpredictable asides.
Sheridan was outspoken about what she believed as a nationally important food campaign, and the subsequent controversy resulted in her being reinstated on television quickly.
She cited Kevin Danaher's In Ireland long ago (1962) as an influence on her books, as she recalled growing up in rural County Tyrone without sentimentality.