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Maire MacNeill (1904–1987)

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Geburtstag
1904-12-07
Todestag
1987-05-15
Geschlecht
female
Nationalität
Ireland
Geburtsort
Portmarnock, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Sterbeort
Corofin, Co. Clare, Ireland
Wohnorte
Dublin, Ireland
Uppsala, Sweden
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Ausbildung
Muckross Park School
University College Dublin
Berufe
journalist
folklorist
translator
Beziehungen
Eoin MacNeill (father)
Sweeney, John L. (husband)
Moore, Brian (cousin)
Organisationen
Irish Folklore Commission
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Máire MacNeill was born at Portmarnock, near Dublin, Ireland, the daughter Eoin MacNeill, an Irish nationalist, politician and scholar, and his wife Agnes Moore. Her father was a founding member of the Gaelic League and Máire grew up in a bilingual Irish and English household. After her family moved into the city, she attended Muckross Park School and then received a BA in Celtic studies from University College Dublin. From 1927 to 1932, she worked as a journalist for the Cumann na nGaedheal political party newspaper, The Star.

In 1935, she went 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 Lughnasadh festival. In 1946, she published Wayside Death Cairns in Ireland. She left the Folklore Commission in 1949 to marry John L. Sweeney, a Harvard University academic and poet. Her Lughnasa study was finally published in 1962 as The Festival of Lughnasa and earned her a D.Litt. degree from the National University. She returned to Ireland in 1967 with her husband, and translated two books from the Irish, Fairy Legends from Donegal (1977), and Sean O Conaill’s Book (1981). Her last book Maire Rua: Lady of Leamaneh, was published posthumously in 1990.

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Every associated story, legend and event around Lughnasa, including those that time shifted because of the calendar changes. This is one of those brick of a book that you'd like to show some pagans who have definite ideas about what went on and explain that this is what we know, not what is speculated.

What we do know is that people in Ireland tended to head for a hill or mountain on Lughnasa and pick berries, that there was some partying and sometimes fights broke out. That there are legends often associated with Crum Dubh associated with the day and that in many of them he is defeated by St Patrick. There are variations on this and things like the Puck Fair seem to be somewhat of a survival of this story. This edition also has some addendums, things found after the last edition.

It's an interesting but dense and somewhat repetitive read, many of the stories are very alike.
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