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Thread #69073   Message #1168601
Posted By: Brían
23-Apr-04 - 12:03 AM
Thread Name: Maire Ni Scolai (1909 - 1985) traditional singer
Subject: RE: Maire Ni Scolai
Well, I found this by doing a Google search.

Brían


from Joe Offer: Archive of the link above:
MÁIRE NÍ SCOLAÍ
(1909 - 1985) traditional singer
Born Dublin

Educated at Central Model Schools and Ring College. She went to Galway with her sister Mona and soon acquired a reputation as a teacher of Irish singing and dancing. Appeared as Gráinne with Micheál MacLiammóir in his Diarmaid agus Gráinne in the Taibhdhearc in 1928. Married Liam Ó Buachalla, then a lecturer in UCG. She became widely known for her interpretations of traditional songs, won many prizes at feiseanna, broadcast frequently from Radio Éireann and the BBC and in France and America, and gave recitals in Covent Garden and Queen’s Hall, London. She collected many songs in the Galway and Donegal Gaeltacht. Died in Galway on 29 June 1985

Source: A Dictionary of Irish Biography, Henry Boylan (ed.), Gill & Macmillan, Dublin, 1998.