Máire Ní Reachtagáin
Máire Ní Reachtagáin | |
|---|---|
| Born | Máire Ní Reachtagáin |
| Died | 11 April 1733 |
| Spouse | Tadhg Ó Neachtain |
Máire Ní Reachtagáin (died 11 April 1733) was a Gaelic poet.
Biography
[edit]Máire Ní Reachtagáin was a Gaelic poet. She married Tadhg Ó Neachtain in 1717. Very little is known about her except for notes left by her husband.
She was from Dublin city though the eulogy of her death asks for laments from Meath suggesting she may have been born there. Only a handful of her work remains. In her lament for her brother Saoirse she wrote in the third person and structured it in quatrains. Some of her work was suggested to have been written by her husband though there is no evidence to suggest that was the case.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
Sources
[edit]- ^ "Corpas na Gaeilge 1600–1882: ughdair". www.smo.uhi.ac.uk.
- ^ "A JOURNAL OF IRISH STUDIES" (PDF). E NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND.
- ^ "An Lúibín" (PDF).
- ^ "Trí Rainn agus Amhrán 22". www.clanntuirc.co.uk.
- ^ Kilfeather, Siobhán Marie; Kilfeather, Siobhan (2005). Dublin: A Cultural History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-518201-9.
- ^ Henigan, Julie (6 October 2015). Literacy and Orality in Eighteenth-Century Irish Song. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-32067-8.
- ^ "Ó NEACHTAIN, Tadhg (c.1671–c.1749)". ainm.ie (in Irish).
- ^ Deane, Seamus; Bourke, Angela; Carpenter, Andrew; Williams, Jonathan (2002). The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-9906-2.