Máire Ní Reachtagáin (died 11 April 1733) was a Gaelic poet.

Biography

Máire Ní Reachtagáin was a Gaelic poet. She married

Tadhg Ó Neachtain Tadhg Ó Neachtain (c.1670 – c.1752) was an Irish writer, scribe and lexicographer. Origins Described as "the fulcrum of the coterie of Irish language scholars who were working in Dublin in the early years of the eighteenth century" (2009, p. ...

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.

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