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Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, November 2009 (cropped)
() is a feminine given name. It is the Irish language form of Maria, which was in turn a Latin form of the Greek names Μαριαμ (Mariam), and Μαρια (Maria), found in the New Testament. Both New Testament names were forms of the Hebrew name (Miryam). Its meaning has been variously translated with around 70 possibilities, including "sea of ", "star of the sea", "drop of the sea", "rebelliousness", "exalted one", "beloved", and "wished for child". Patrick Woulfe (1923) thought that the meaning related to bitterness, related to grief, sorrow, affliction, possibly associated with childbirth, was most likely. Máire was and still is a popular name in Ireland, and is sometimes spelt in its anglicised forms Maire, (without diacritics) '' Maura'' and '' Moira''. The diminutive form Máirín has inspired the Anglicised Maureen. Completely unrelated to this, Maire (pron. MIE-reh) is a feminine given name in Finland, said to derive from the Finnish word ''mairea'', meani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Language
Irish (Standard Irish: ), also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic ( ), is a Celtic language of the Indo-European language family. It is a member of the Goidelic languages of the Insular Celtic sub branch of the family and is indigenous language, indigenous to the island of Ireland. It was the majority of the population's first language until the 19th century, when English (language), English gradually became dominant, particularly in the last decades of the century, in what is sometimes characterised as a result of linguistic imperialism. Today, Irish is still commonly spoken as a first language in Ireland's Gaeltacht regions, in which 2% of Ireland's population lived in 2022. The total number of people (aged 3 and over) in Ireland who declared they could speak Irish in April 2022 was 1,873,997, representing 40% of respondents, but of these, 472,887 said they never spoke it and a further 551,993 said they only spoke it within the education system. Linguistic analyses o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maire Comerford
Máire Aoife Comerford (2 June 1893 - 15 December 1982) was an Irish republican from County Wexford who witnessed central events in 1916-23 and remained a committed supporter of Cumann na mBan until her death. Her memoir of the Irish revolutionary period, ''On Dangerous Ground'', was published posthumously in 2021. Early life Comerford was born Mary Eva Comerford on 2 June 1893 in Rathdrum, County Wicklow. Her parents were James Comerford, a flour and corn miller who owned the Comerford Mill, and Eva Mary Esmonde. She had two brothers (Thomas and Alexander) and one sister (Dympna). Her maternal grandfather, Thomas Esmonde had been awarded a V.C. for bravery in the Crimean War in 1854. On his return to Ireland he joined the Royal Irish Constabulary and was promoted to Deputy Chief Inspector. Her father died when she was 16 and in 1911 she was sent to London to a secretarial school. During this time she stayed in the Ladies Club in Eccles Place. She returned to Ireland to l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Máire Mullarney
Máire Mullarney (1 September 1921 – 18 August 2008) was an Irish environmentalist, educationalist and Esperanto advocate. She was one of the founding members of the Irish Green Party in 1981 (then known as the Ecology Party of Ireland). She stood for the party in three Dáil elections in the 1980s and was elected to South Dublin County Council in 1991, a position she kept until 1999. Her political influences included Hilaire Belloc Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc ( ; ; 27 July 187016 July 1953) was a French-English writer, politician, and historian. Belloc was also an orator, poet, sailor, satirist, writer of letters, soldier, and political activist. His Catholic fait ..., GK Chesterton and Ernst Schumacher, author of the influential Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered, which argued for environmentalism from an economist's perspective. Maire Mullarney also published a book called "Anything school can do you can do better" it was about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Máire Mulcahy
Máire F. Mulcahy (1937 – 28 November 2023) was an Irish zoologist and ecologist, with an expertise in fish and shellfish health and disease. She was the first female vice-president of an Irish University and the founding chair of the Marine Institute Ireland. She served as a vice-president of University College Cork (UCC). The Mulcahy medal for the highest achieving zoology student in UCC is named in her honour. Background Mulcahy attended St Angela's College and graduated from University College Cork (UCC) in 1958. She attained a doctorate in biochemistry from the University of Manchester. She married Edmund (Noel) Mulcahy in 1958. Noel, a national chess master, died in the Aer Lingus Vickers Viscount crash in 1968. Career Mulcahy was made a professor of Zoology at UCC. During her tenure she reinstated L. P. W. Renouf's natural history museum there. In 1989 she was made a vice-president of UCC. In 1990 she was appointed chair of the newly founded Marine Institute, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Máire Mhac An TSaoi
Máire Mhac an tSaoi (4 April 1922 – 16 October 2021) was an Irish civil service diplomat, writer of Modernist poetry in the Corca Dhuibhne dialect of Munster Irish, a memoirist, and a highly important figure within modern literature in Irish. Along with Seán Ó Ríordáin and Máirtín Ó Direáin, Máire Mhac an tSaoi was, in the words of Louis de Paor, "one of a trinity of poets who revolutionised Irish language poetry in the 1940s and 50s." Early life Mhac an tSaoi was born as Máire MacEntee in Dublin in 1922. Her father, Seán MacEntee, was born in Belfast and was a veteran of the Irish Volunteers during the Easter Rising of 1916 and the subsequent Irish War of Independence, and of the Anti-Treaty IRA during the Irish Civil War. MacEntee was also a founding member of Fianna Fáil, a long-serving TD and Tánaiste in the Dáil. Her mother, County Tipperary-born Margaret Browne (or de Brún) was also an Irish republican. Her maternal uncle was the Traditionalist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Máire McDonnell-Garvey
Máire McDonnell-Garvey (10 July 1927 – 29 August 2009) was a traditional Irish musician and writer. Biography Máire McDonnell was born on 10 July 1927 in Tobracken, County Roscommon to James McDonnell and Annie Theresa Talbot. McDonnell-Garvey was one of three children. Her mother died while she was doing her Leaving Certificate. McDonnell-Garvey went to school in the Sisters of Charity in Ballaghadereen. McDonnell-Garvey was taught the violin by PJ Giblin. McDonnell-Garvey married Bob Garvey in 1948 and they moved to Walkinstown, Dublin. The couple had five children. McDonnell-Garvey spent twenty five years teaching night classes for Conradh na Gaeilge. She was secretary of the Dublin County Board of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann and spent time at the St Mary's Music Club on Church Street, Dublin. In the 1940s McDonnell-Garvey played with the ''Aiséirigh Céilí Band''. In the 1960s she played with ''Eamonn Ceannt Céilí Band''. McDonnell-Garvey, Dónal Ó hÉalaí a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Máire MacNeill
Máire MacNeill (7 December 1904 – 15 May 1987) was an Ireland, Irish journalist, folklorist and translator. She is best known for her magisterial study of the Irish harvest festival, ''The Festival of Lughnasa'' (1962, 1983). Biography She was born at Portmarnock, County Dublin, the second daughter of historian and political figure Eoin MacNeill and Agnes Moore. After the family moved into the city she attended Muckross Park school. She received her BA in Celtic Studies from University College Dublin in 1925. From 1927 to 1932, she worked as a journalist and then as sub-editor on the Cumann na nGaedheal newspaper, ''The Star''. She also assisted her father with his memoirs.Maureen Murphy: Máire MacNeill. Béaloideas 72, 2004 (Irish Folklore Commission) In 1935, Séamus Ó Duilearga invited her to work for the newly founded Irish Folklore Commission as office manager. She trained in folklore methods at Uppsala University, Sweden, before starting research on the Lughnasad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maire Lynch
Máire Lynch, Countess of Clanricarde (fl. 1547) was an Irish noblewoman. Lynch was a member of the Tribes of Galway who married, prior to his death in 1544, Ulick na gCeann Burke, 1st Earl of Clanricarde. The reason for the marriage was to aid Burke's assimilation into Old English society and learn English. However, Lynch was only one of three wives that Burke was simultaneously married to (see Early Irish Law). Upon his death, she claimed that their son, John Burke, should become 2nd Earl. A commission established that the legitimate heir was Richard Burke, 2nd Earl of Clanricarde, son of Burke's first marriage to Gráinne Ní Chearbaill of Ely O'Carroll. Lynch was in compensation granted £300.00. Her son, John, would nevertheless challenge his half-brother for the earldom in the 1550s. In 1553, the Annals of the Four Masters state that John Burke was besieged at his castle of Binmore (''Beann-mor'') by Earl Richard, but the latter had been driven off by Donnell O'Brien. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Máire Hoctor
Máire Hoctor (born 20 January 1963) is an Irish former Fianna Fáil politician. She was a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Tipperary North (Dáil constituency), Tipperary North constituency from 2002 to 2011. She was educated at St. Mary's secondary school, Nenagh and St Patrick's College, Maynooth, St Patrick's College, Maynooth. Before her election she worked as a secondary school teacher in St. Joseph's CBS, Nenagh. Hoctor was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil TD for Tipperary North at the 2002 Irish general election, 2002 general election. She was re-elected at the 2007 Irish general election, 2007 general election. She is a former member of North Tipperary County Council and of Nenagh Town Council. Hoctor was a member of various Oireachtas Committees at different stages in the 2002–07 Fianna Fáil–Progressive Democrats government. In 2007, legislation was passed to increase the number of Ministers of State from 17 to 20, and in July 2007 Hoctor was nominated by B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Máire Herbert
Máire R. M. Herbert , also known as Mary Herbert, is an Irish historian and academic, specialising in early medieval Irish history and Irish saints. She is Emeritus Professor of Early and Medieval Irish at University College Cork, and was previously the head of its ''Scoil Léann Na Gaeilge'' (School of Irish Learning). Biography Herbert pursued Celtic Studies at University College, Galway, taking a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1968 followed by a Master of Arts (MA) degree in 1970. She was appointed scholar at the School of Celtic Studies within the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies in October 1970 and researched there for two years until 1972. She later undertook further postgraduate studies as a visiting fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, completing her research there in 1975 and officially awarded her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1985. Her doctoral thesis was titled "The monastic paruchia of Colum Cille in pre-Norman Ireland: its history and hagi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Máire Hendron
Máire Hendron is an Alliance Party politician who was a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for Belfast East from 2019 to 2020. She was a Belfast City Councillor for the Pottinger DEA from 2005 to 2014, and served as Deputy Lord Mayor of Belfast from 2014 to 2015. Political career She was first elected to Belfast City Council in 2005, representing the Pottinger District. Hendron was re-elected to the Council 2011, but failed to be elected onto the successor Titanic District at the 2014 local elections. Hendron was appointed Deputy Lord Mayor of Belfast in 2014. Hendron was co-opted the Northern Ireland Assembly in July 2019 after the incumbent MLA, Naomi Long, was elected to the European Parliament The European Parliament (EP) is one of the two legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and informally as the Council of Ministers), it ... . She re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maire Gullichsen
Maire Eva Johanna Gullichsen (née Ahlström, later known as Gullichsen-Nyströmer, 24 June 1907, Porin maalaiskunta – 9 July 1990, Pori) was a Finnish art collector and patron. She was a co-founder of the Artek furniture company. Pori Art Museum is based on Gullichsen's art collection. Gullichsen was the daughter of Finnish businessman Walter Ahlström. Gullichsen's grandfather was Antti Ahlström, one of Finland's most influential and wealthiest 19th century businessman. She studied art in Helsinki and in Paris between 1925 and 1928 and got married in 1928 to Harry Gullichsen, a Finnish director of Norwegian descent working at the Ahlstrom company. Maire and Harry Gullichsen were supporters and keen lovers of modern art as well as applied arts and architecture.Pori Art Museum (in Finnish). Retrieved 12.8.2013. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
