Nellie Ó Cléirigh
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Nellie Ó Cléirigh (29 January 1927 – 16 October 2008), was an Irish lace authority and historian.


Biography

Nellie Ó Cléirigh was born Nellie Beary in
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, County Tipperary about 1927. She got her education from the Ursuline convent in Waterford before going on to study history and Irish in
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. She worked as a civil servant in the Land Commission but on her marriage she had to resign as the marriage bar was still in effect. She married Cormac Ó Cléirigh and they had three sons, Conor, Niall and Shane. Ó Cléirigh had studied embroidery and started her own handcraft business. She became an expert on lace and wrote about it as well as creating an archive of lace and related artefacts. Her in-depth study of the women around the skill lent itself to her study of the women of Ireland which she then also turned into a book. She specifically looks at the lives of women who impacted Ireland including Lady Aberdeen,
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, Selina Crampton, Cecilia Saunders-Gallagher and Sister Aloysius. She died in 2008 and was buried in
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.


Bibliography

* Carrickmacross Lace - Irish Embroidered Net Lace, a Survey and Manual with Patterns, (Dolmen Press, 1985) * Limerick Lace: A Social History and a Maker's Manual (With Veronica Rowe) * Valentia, A Different Irish Island * Hardship and High Living (Portobello Press 2003)


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ó Cléirigh, Nellie 1927 births 2008 deaths 20th-century Irish historians Lace Irish embroiderers Irish women historians 20th-century Irish women writers Irish women non-fiction writers Women art historians People from Clonmel