Máirín Bean Uí Dhálaigh

Máirín Bean Uí Dhalaigh[n 1] (née Nic Dhiarmada;[1] 30 November 1908 – 25 January 1994) was a scholar of the Irish language and the wife of Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, who served as President of Ireland from 1974–76.

In 1931, while a student in University College Dublin, Nic Dhiarmada gave an address on "Women in Irish life long ago" which Philip O'Leary described in 2004 as "unapologetically feminist".[2] In 1934 she married Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh.[1] The couple had no children. In 1983, five years after her husband's death, she was appointed to the Council of State by his successor as President, Patrick Hillery.[3]

Notes

  1. ^ "Bean" is the Irish equivalent of "Mrs".

References

  1. ^ a b Nealon, Ted (1974). Ireland: a parliamentary directory, 1973-1974. Institute of Public Administration. p. 168. 
  2. ^ O'Leary, Philip (2010). Gaelic Prose in the Irish Free State 1922-1939. Penn State Press. p. 248. ISBN 9780271030104. http://books.google.com/books?id=JXIv00X-jmoC&pg=PA248. Retrieved 9 January 2011. 
  3. ^ "Bean Ui Dhalaigh honoured". The Irish Times: p. 1. 30 June 1983.