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Máire Bhuí Ní Laeire

1774–1848·Wrote in Irish

Dispossession · The Gaelic poets of dispossession (17th–19th centuries) · Irish

Illiterate Cork farm woman and composer of Cath Chéim an Fhia, a fierce, exultant account of an 1822 skirmish. Her work survived entirely by oral transmission.

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