Máirín Uí Dhálaigh

Máirín Uí Dhálaigh
Born Máirín Anne Nic Dhiarmada
(1908-11-30)30 November 1908
Mussoorie, India
Died 25 January 1994(1994-01-25) (aged 85)
Portobello, Dublin, Ireland
Resting place Sneem, County Kerry, Ireland
Nationality Irish
Alma mater University College Dublin
Spouse(s) Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh
(m. 1934; his death 1978)

Máirín Anne Uí Dhalaigh or Máirín O’Daly (née Máirín Nic Dhiarmada[1] (30 November 1908 – 25 January 1994) was a scholar of the Irish language and was the wife of the 5th President of Ireland Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh.

She was the eldest of four children, of a Dublin father and Cork mother, born in Mussoorie, India, where her father was a teacher with the Royal Munster Fusiliers. At age two she was sent to her father's sister in Tralee. She was educated at various schools in Dublin, and studied Latin and Irish in University College Dublin (UCD). While there in 1931, she gave an address on "Women in Irish life long ago" which Philip O'Leary described in 2004 as "unapologetically feminist".[2] She worked as a teacher before completing a masters in Old Irish. Thereafter, she was on the faculty at UCD, and later also on the governing body. For the Irish Texts Society, she edited Cath Maige Mucrama and produced a glossary and corrections for The Life of Aodh Ruadh Ó Domhnaill. She also contributed to the Royal Irish Academy's Dictionary of the Irish Language.

She got to know Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh at UCD, through the Literary and Historical Society, Conradh na Gaeilge and hillwalking club; in 1934 they were married.[1] The couple had no children. In 1983, five years after her husband's death, she was appointed to the Council of State by his successor, President Patrick Hillery.[3] Her last years were blighted by ill health. She is buried with her husband in Sneem, County Kerry.

Notes

    Sources

    • Breathnach, Diarmuid; Ní Mhurchú, Máire. "Uí Dhalaigh, Máirín (c.1909–1994)". ainm.ie (in Irish). Cló Iar-Chonnacht. Retrieved 28 November 2014.

    References

    1. 1 2 Nealon, Ted (1974). Ireland: a parliamentary directory, 1973-1974. Institute of Public Administration. p. 168. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
    2. ↑ O'Leary, Philip (2010). Gaelic Prose in the Irish Free State 1922-1939. Penn State Press. p. 248. ISBN 978-0-271-03010-4. Retrieved 9 January 2011.
    3. ↑ "Bean Ui Dhalaigh honoured". The Irish Times. 30 June 1983. p. 1.
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